Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoTennessee firm employed minors to clean meat saws, head splitters at slaughterhouseswww.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1308arrow-down13cross-posted to: news@lemmy.worldpolitics@sh.itjust.works
arrow-up1305arrow-down1external-linkTennessee firm employed minors to clean meat saws, head splitters at slaughterhouseswww.nbcnews.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square31fedilinkcross-posted to: news@lemmy.worldpolitics@sh.itjust.works
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up57arrow-down1·9 months agoWere they migrant children? Quite likely. The child labor problem is an immigration problem. One Republicans support. They don’t mind immigrants being here if they can be cruel to them. https://www.npr.org/2023/05/04/1173697113/immigrant-child-labor-crisis
minus-squareSeaJ@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up22·9 months agoFTA: Most of the children are from Guatemala. So yes, just are migrant children.
minus-squareFenrirIII@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·9 months agoIf we actually arrested and punished the people employing illegal immigrants we’d see some change.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·9 months agoWhy would Republicans do that when they can just arrest and punish the immigrants themselves- if they don’t die first? You know what happens when these companies end up killing children? They get a fine. And not even a very big fine.
Were they migrant children? Quite likely.
The child labor problem is an immigration problem. One Republicans support. They don’t mind immigrants being here if they can be cruel to them.
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/04/1173697113/immigrant-child-labor-crisis
FTA:
So yes, just are migrant children.
If we actually arrested and punished the people employing illegal immigrants we’d see some change.
Why would Republicans do that when they can just arrest and punish the immigrants themselves- if they don’t die first?
You know what happens when these companies end up killing children? They get a fine. And not even a very big fine.