• Flying Squid
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    818 months ago

    the teenager, who immigrated to Mississippi from Guatemala years ago.

    The child labor problem is actually an immigration issue. These companies know they can hire migrant children to do dangerous work because they think their parents will stay in the shadows out of fear of deportation. I’m glad one mother is fighting back anyway.

    https://www.npr.org/2023/05/04/1173697113/immigrant-child-labor-crisis

    • Snot Flickerman
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      298 months ago

      The child labor problem is actually an immigration issue.

      Louder for the people in the back, please. It seems a lot of people are missing this.