@@sosammathomas1525 if there are not enough workers, why send back people willing to work? and let their children be here and get education. George Bush senior said in 1980 that these children should be educated. Ronald Reagan said we should have open borders.
The corporations are fined as indicated in the story. The issue with fines is that relative to billions in profits, fines in the millions is simply the cost of business
You always hear about the deportation of undocumented workers but rarely hear about the management of the companies that hired them facing any repercussions. It's like a revolving door of free labor in a sense.
Politicians know they are working. The illegal immigrants are being let in to work jobs no one else will work. This is known. It’s not okay buts known.
I'm willing to bet this admin will quietly alter labor laws so that they can retroactively find that they did nothing wrong by shipping these kids from the border to all over the country.
Meaningful reporting by Hannah Dreier. Great segment b Democracy Now!. Well-spoken guest speakers, including Gregory Chen. This is what should be considered actual news.
Children as young as twelve do not know how to forge the documents to get these jobs. The corporations who are hiring them need to be investigated and CEOs, Presidents, Vice Presidents and HR need to be held criminally liable. Anyone who is involved with forging the documentation for these children needs to be held criminally liable, even if t is the parents of these children. Any government officials who have failed to enforce the law should also be held criminally liable.
If the Country allows undocumented immigrants to remain in the USA and violates its own hiring laws and policies, then what laws are they suppose to uphold? This country must first decide to honor the border laws (Green cards, Visas, etc.) that are designed to eliminate child abuse laws, such as these! Soon there will be no laws at all, if this keeps up!
@@Icare202 Exactly! I agree with you 100% All laws need to be enforced, what is the point of having them if they're not enforced. Border laws absolutely must be enforced, and if needed, border walls must be constructed. One in the south is needed. It was needed a long time ago. We can save ourselves a lot of issues by enforcing our borders.
@@cherylk.2474 Let's stop GENERATING waves of migration, by stopping our imperial foreign policies! "We" support just about every brutal government because brutality lowers the cost of labor!
These are children! Sounds like human trafficking of kids which is deplorable at best. What can we do to help them? They deserve a better future than what they are getting. Thank you 💛 Amy and Juan for shining light on this.
Yes, but no charges for the administration who blindly let them in, making this possible and easier than ever. Makes perfect sense. Who exactly do you think hires undocumented illegal aliens who can't get a job because they have no paperwork?
@@steveanimatrix3887 Who hires these people? Employers who want to pay under the legal wage, like for roofing, farm labor, canneries, slaughterhouses, etc. And they probably won't dare apply for social security because they might get deported, etc.
Not only fine the companies but "people need to be fired and imprisoned!" There were those who knew, people in positions of responsibility who knew this was going on. Follow the money.
@@jackrackham4618 You do realize drugs are crossing the border through tunnels that were dug long before the wall? And to add insult trump canceled supports the US was providing to help minimize the need to emigrate to the United States and safety. Numbers of people crossing the border, before trump, was only a small fraction of what it is now. It will take a little more time to get things back to a manageable number of immigrants crossing our southern border.
Nothing ever gets throughly followed through by any agency that’s supposed to check on children. Look at the foster program and adopted children that fall through the cracks when given to families that treat them badly and or end up killed. More needs to be done.
These corporate executives need to be in jail! As should the politicians who allowed this to happen! This is human trafficking and its a crime. Everyone involved needs severe punishment, the staffing agencies, the regulators, the human traffickers, the immigration system, the child welfare system, it all needs to be fixed so this never happens again!
Arrested for the murders of these children who died, our child protection services protect all children who's domicile is the United States~or should. But how? They barely protect the children born here, in the foster care system is not only still broken and has been for decades but it is diseased and cancerous
The difference between R’s and D’s? Republicans are openly & blatantly for corporations, Democrats just SAY they’re for the people while doing nothing- wink, wink, nod, nod.
Biden claimed he didn't even know he had an additional grandchild, so this is the man responsisble for watching over ANY children in this country???? That's why you'll never see Biden shed one tear over the infants he blows up in Gaza.
Corporations have one idealism. One purpose. One desirable result. "PROFIT" Nothing else at all. Just profit. They have armies of lawyers backing them. Who do the people have?
Nobody. Amy isn't prosecuting these jackals. She isn't even investigation. It isn't enough to be angry. The for profit system for making everything damn thing we need isn't viable.
Maybe all these news agencies should be publishing the names of all the guilty parties. I know in Canada, there was human trafficking abuse in a major hotel chain but the media wouldn't publish the guilty party. So much protection these companies are given. Just name the companies so the consumer can chose to boycott or not.
@@jackrackham4618 That wall was a silly idea when there are all those other ways to get into the US. Tunnels, boats, private aircraft... Wall: very expensive, accomplished nothing. I should add that some good ranch land was taken from ranchers so that wall could be built, but the topography was a challenge...🤪
@@sheldonbodryn1003 No point in caring about any walls or fences. Norway just announced they will be constructing barriers to Russia. To me, it is all talking points. Total hypocrisy on America as promotion appears to be high. I agree. They accomplish nothing. Governments are money wasters so..."who cares"??? as we have no say!!!
Recently in Greeley Colorado at a meat packing company, underaged kids were found cleaning up the remains of cattle. This company must be fined and charged with abuse.
These are human rights violations. Also, there is no way these kids have the proper paperwork to be working legally. Who are these businesses who are hiring them?
My question exactly. Somebody hires them some human being who calls himself or herself an American, who has their own children, maybe even vthe same ages. }Listen the Golden rule really needs to apply to children without fail~do unto others children, ALL children, as you would have others do unto YOUR children77
@@markcortez5685 IDC who owns, who is invested in or who staffs those agencies. They are violating US Child Labor Laws and just violating Children in general. Jail/Fines are their future or it better be. No more lying about the situation. Children that have not had the advantages that their Own countries should have seen to give them. Leaders of those countries use their people as servants. They Do Not Serve the People and that is what all Governments should be doing in this 21st Century. One day, One day, people will start demanding that of them. One day.
Great job Hannah Dreier. I was so blind to this. I have worked in many factories. Never seen kids in the ones I worked in. These companies need to be fined big time.
Fine the hell out of each and every company that is in violation! They were gonna keep that up continuously until busted! Show's how dirty these companies across America.
Why do we jail (and fine) the working class but only fine corporations? Individual people are responsible and they all need to go to prison for their crimes. Fine them too, but lock these sociopaths up.
Jerry Robinson You comment shows what your heart is really like. Just fine them???? This is a human rights violation. 12 children have been killed! You don't think prison is in order????
Is there a list of companies that are violating and exploiting children? I would like to know so that that I never buy from that corporation/ company again.
Democrats need to accept accountability for not taking control of the border even while they hold the Presidency. I say this as a registered Democrat. Immigration to this country must be restricted to safe and legal routes.
Here's the thing, the US is stealing kids from South America because if we don't the impending population decline is going to put us in a big bind. But I'm not defending this shit.
11:20 - the Michigan schools were releasing them early based on what reason. The educational system in Michigan isn't protecting children! California teachers are required to call Social Services if they SUSPECT child abuse. Why wasn't this reported?
I worked as a kid as young as 8, but it was completely different. I worked to have spending money, I work around school, I didn't work because I was threatened and indebted. I loved working and having that independence, but this is awful and I hope more is done to protect them from this obvious exploitation.
If children are being released to people without proper vetting then having their labor exploited is probably the least bad thing among all the bad things happening to them. Just read between the lines a little and you will see the sexual abuse scandal under the surface.
It's heart wrenching to hear children die on the job. Without any support, these child migrants are at the mercy of profiteering adults and I'm sure the deaths are under reported.
As long as law makers are able to accept money from lobbyists, the law makers will not be for the people. They are for their pocketbook. This is so sick, those children are human beings and have no voice and are being used and abused and worked to death. Regardless of politics this is just sick and wrong. Human slavery is alive and well in the United States.
We need term limits for all elected offices. It is the only way we can regain control of our government and stop corporations from being able to buy politicians. The longer the politician is in office, the more corrupt they become.
I have noticed and met more and more teenage kids who are working full-time and giving much of their checks to help their parents pay rent with the skyrocketing costs of housing in general. Working well beyond regulated hours and being exploited in the sense that they are the only people willing to work for minimal pay when many restaurants are refusing to increase pay beyond 10/hr. When you have no experience and don't know your worth you will work for anything and deal with much more shit. Things are getting bad for everyone, everywhere..
Bless Hannah Dreier for her outstanding work, work that has proved invaluable to efforts to introduce reforms into corrupt systems in the United States and in South America (Venezuela, specifically, where her life was threatened by agents of the Maduro government). May this courageous multi-award winning journalist continue her truly essential work for many decades to come. And heartfelt thanks to Democracy Now for continuing to provide the kind of revelatory information that every moral citizen needs to know.
What a shame that these children were handed off to people who only care about exploiting them. I can’t imagine what they have gone through just to find some sort of stability.
Whoever is sending these children and whoever is accepting these children into their employment, need to be jailed, fined to the absolute limit. How has no one at one of these employment agencies NOT blown the whistle on these practices? How do they sleep at night?
Notably, the White House Press Secretary did NOT say any capitalists would be prosecuted for their crimes, only that there would be governmental "scrutiny" going forward.
@@godbyone You sound like you're under the illusion this is a partisan issue. We're in a class war and the working class is getting slaughtered. Stop giving the propaganda channels that divide the working class your attention. Their goal is to render us clueless and make us fight among ourselves instead of fighting them.
Thank you for checking this out. Old baldy from MSNBC was fully aware and got his ass handed to him. Russell is amazing. Praying the lord protects him.
@@jamezbrian4135The "democrats" are stopping MORE than the ex LIAR-IN-CHIEF did. Seems like since this particular situation grew exponentially in 2017, the previous administration has some answers to come up with. The borders are not open. That's reich-wingnut speak.
There is nothing shocking about this. This kind of thing has been going on for the entirety of recorded history, more so since the creation of money/currency, and more so since the creation of "America." This kind of thing has been the norm throughout the history of the US -- from the funding of the "exploration" to the founding of the government entity -- beginning when wealthy-class right-wing Europeans stole the American-landscape from the rightful owners and committed genocide against them. Here's your free lesson(s) for the day: Right-wing politics are pro-wealthy-class politics. Right-wing politics are anti-working-class politics. The exploration of the American-landscape was funded by European wealthy-class right-wingers. The founding of the American government-entity was perpetrated by European wealthy-class right-wingers. BOTH the Republican & Democrat parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by wealthy-class right-wingers, most of European ancestry. Slavery, manipulation, and exploitation are all inherent in the politics of the wealthy-class right-wingers, and in America. Hoarding, materialism, and addiction are all inherent in the lifestyles of wealthy-class right-wingers, and in the working-class fools who vote for wealthy-class right-wingers. The wealthy-class owners of American businesses used chattel-slave labor in the past, and working-class leftists fought against it. The wealthy-class owners of American businesses use wage-slave labor in the present, and working-class leftists are fighting against it. But there are too many working-class morons in America who vote for wealthy-class right-wing Repubs and wealthy-class right-wing Dems, rather than standing up to those wealthy-class right-wingers. These working-class voters are dumb, so they vote against their own best interests. And the wealthy-class right-wingers love stupid people, because stupid people make better slaves. That is why the wealthy-class right-wing plantation owners prevented their slaves from learning in the past, and it is the same reason why wealthy-class right-wing business owners want to defund public education in the present. The wealthy-class right-wingers don't want educated citizens -- They want stupid slaves who are incapable of identifying their own oppressors. But, working-class leftists keep fighting against the wealthy-class right-wingers. In fact, despite the sabotage committed by their own working-class mates who do the bidding of wealthy-class right-wingers, the working-class leftists have been somewhat successful. Wealthy-class right-wingers have been exporting American jobs and businesses for decades because working-class American leftists have been so successful at fighting against the chattel-slavery and wage-slavery imposed by wealthy-class right-wingers. These wealthy-class American right-wingers are doing the same thing that wealthy-class Nazi right-wingers and wealthy-class Confederate right-wingers did: FLEEING. Of course, after the wealthy-class Nazis and Confederates snuck out the door and left the working-class Germans and Southern-Americans holding the metaphorical bag, there were troubling times for the working-class Germans and Southern-Americans who couldn't afford to flee. And working-class Americans should expect the same. When the wealthy-class right-wingers finally decide to focus all of their exploitation, manipulation, and slavery on some other group of working-class people in some other country, working-class Americans should expect to come to know the true meaning of the word "struggle." I could go on. But, for anyone who would use such a hyperbolic phrase as "shocking" to explain something so regular as American-slavery, I presume I've already given such a person more information than they can comprehend in one sitting. Long story short: This video/story is just continuing the exposure of the right-wing politics that are ingrained by the wealty-class into the American sh!thole. There is literally -- not figuratively -- NOTHING shocking about this.
how old are they? I'm from a non immigrant working class family and in the 1980s and 1990s we were working part time in dirty dangerous jobs beginning at around age 12. At age 14 we could work longer hrs. In my neighborhood in Baltimore there was a 70% high school drop out rate. Parents were often addicts, some teens filed for emancipation. It was an old cycle. My mother dropped out of high school at the age of 15 to help my grandmother pay the rent. She worked in a cotton processing mill, in a peuter figurine factory... I had a dozen jobs as a teen ... yes, using illegal machinery. Good that you're exposing this, but doesn't only affect migrant workers and it is not a new development.
Amazing this is going on in your own country and yet your country has the audacity to point to other countries such as China, India, ect using children for labor. Hypocrisy at its finest!
Grimmway in California is currently thought to employ almost 8% of their staff with kids under 16. None of whom speak English and many who are threatened with immigration if they say anything. Also because your children they don't get minimum wage they get paid about $5 an hour
Should we not imprison the parents, guardians, and sponsors of these children. As Guardians they have a responsibility to keep an eye and watch these children.
This breaks my heart so much 😢 as a mother to teens my heart a h for these young people. My kids have after school jobs by choice, no child should feel the burden of debt, entrapment or enslavement. How is this even possible in our country 😔
It is exactly why the boarder is open. Parentless children cheap and disposable. Money made by both sides - is why the political people want the immigrants to flow in. They own the companies using them so they making money to.
@@ashleylaw As long as the kids give their money, if any, back to their parents, or their masters, I don't see a problem. At least they are being not made fat in Trump's cages.
The parents of those children know exactly what they're doing in order to survive. What kind of a parent would send a 12 yr old to travel to US border unsupervised. These children are being exploited by various companies for cheap labor, their sponsors, and their families.
Parents who are living in desperate conditions, beyond the imagination of the typical American. I am not defending it, but if you learn the whole story, you can understand why sending off your 12 year old is the BETTER option. There are no opportunities there, aside from gang warfare and death.
No doubt, both of your comments are true. I have met a woman who was leased to a bordello by her family when she was 12. She was fed, clothed, educated, all medical and dental taken care of, and could see her family anytime they wished. Her lease expired when she was 18. She chose to re-up her contract for another 4 years, this time, the money went to her instead of her family. She used her savings to go to school. She was happy to help her family out in this way. It is more common than we realize. These people come from desperate poverty. It's a different world.
That is the purpose of illegal immigration, to have a workforce that is outside the law. If we don't follow immigration laws why would we worry about the other laws? These people work under the table.
Ding ding ding. Finally someone who gets it! Illegal immigration keeps wages for working class people suppressed. The US is the only country on earth that rolls out the carpet for illegal aliens. There was a shooting by an Asian man at a mushroom farm in California. The media didn't say the shooter was illegal, but he worked at a mushroom farm and all the people there were illegal. The farm owners paid the people less than minimum wage, then charged them rent to live in deplorable trailers with no heat or insulation. Illegal immigration is exploitive of the people and terrible for working class people. The only people who benefit are the corporations. Everyone else and taxpayers lose. And let's not even start talking about crime...
“ an open border is an endless supply of slave labor with no rights.“ Cesar Chavez (that’s why the government wants it open then and now) Cesar Chavez, a Mexican, Fought to have the border of California controlled. And formed the united farm workers union. An open border affects poor people of the country the most. Thinking and open border is some kind of humanitarian act is twisted and evil
Thank you for posting that saying because the adults can't make enough to provide for their families so they sacrificing their children to make ends meet!!!!! I want to give a big shout out to the rich in their Ivory Towers what comes around goes around!!!!!!!
Where's OSHA in all of this? Balancing while working on a roof, has fallen before, where's the safety harness? As others have already said, even those on the periphery of this human catastrophe should be held accountable.
Perhaps some consumer report can publish a list of every single company and sub company involved in this atrocity. How did we seriously not know this was going on
Politicians Democrats, Republicans and Independent knew what’s going on, that why they letting the unaccompanied come here. Plus the sued to release them in ten days. SHAM SHAM.
@@monamartin9915 it's a little more intricate and complicated than that Once they successfully cross the border into the United States that's it, we are responsible for them. It's just that the problem is so overwhelming, it is literally a massive and profound human crisis and the numbers so great that as of yet, nobody has found anything remotely workable as a solution. We can put men on the moon...
No blame for the parents who send their children across the border? The border has not become more restrictive as proven by the numbers loving here for the asylum.
The fact that no one is saying Ben & Jerry and all the other CEO's should be arrested and charged let's me know this isn't a serious concern for anyone.
Not 1 owner name or management. Mess not Press. Same owners will change their names or move to a country that is OK with it. Investigating and not arresting tell you everything.
As a conservative this type of crap pisses me off and has been going on under every president for years going back. Every time I've mentioned this as a serious problem with immigration to my colleagues I've been either laughed at or told I'm trying to use it as an excuse to keep immigrants out. Its disgusting to play politics with children under any guise or by either side so thank you for putting this story out. Maybe now this will be enough to crack the coldest hearts out there who don't seem to care about the abuse of children.
If you pay attention, this has been recently. The number they found increased by more than 100000. They are here legally and were sent to verified caregivers. I was a foster child. What will happen to the new children to be born now to impoverished women? Will they be put to labor at a young age in Foster Care? Did you know that in Iowa lawmakers have tried to pass laws allowing children at age 14 to do this labor? And there's kids are here legally so the corporations would be ALLOWED to let these kids work. Plus included in that legislation would be to remove culpability on those companies if the child dies while at these jobs.
@@mansanayanaranjado whoa. Can you write an open letter to e ery legislation and media leader to understand this? You know what you are talking about. Don't stop.
It’s crazy that people are so unable to say no to cheap labor that they can’t even see where to draw the line. At some point you are undermining humanity, not helping the company.
As a previous manager, in a restaurant company. I assure you they come in with fake documents, and you're not allowed to question those documents... the states that have E-verify takes months to get the verification back, and by then the employee has already moved to a new job. They know the system.
@Hard_Cold_Truth they come in as illegal unaccompanied minors... they are placed in "care" of relatives who aren't relatives ... they are basically trafficking rings that put these kids to work with fake documents, and when these kids are paid, the money is taken and to pay off the cartels that moved them across the border. Many of these employers have no idea how old these kids are .. why because they use forged documents. The government doesn't give them new IDs once they are let in .... they purchase fakes through their own system. Sit down and talk to illegals ... once they trust you, they will tell you the stories of how they live and get ushered through the system. Minors are used as slave labor here, and they are automatically allowed to stay in the USA, so it's the best cash flow for the trafficking rings and cartels. Over the years working in restaurants, you hear their stories. The politicians won't pass E verify laws for every state, so the states that don't verify the SS# to the name they use give them the ability to hide in the system. Take some time .. research it ... everyone wants to scream about the company ... but as someone who has encountered 13 yr Olds with documents showing them as 17 and older, you can only go with what you're given. The documents look real and most states have no system to verify
Why not just enforce existing laws.... hold those that are responsible for handling this sort of issue accountable.... fire, fine, and jail them...
They had no intention to do so bc they were benefitting from it.
Why they are here find the family deports them.
SHAM
@@sosammathomas1525 if there are not enough workers, why send back people willing to work? and let their children be here and get education. George Bush senior said in 1980 that these children should be educated. Ronald Reagan said we should have open borders.
The corporations are fined as indicated in the story. The issue with fines is that relative to billions in profits, fines in the millions is simply the cost of business
The CEOs of these companies are raking it in, while children suffer. The Labor department needs to step up.
They should be charged as human trafficking
The labor dept. looks the other way and always has.
@@caravanfour4559 and murder when children have died
We can add this to the list of systemic problems that are deeply affecting our culture
no one gives a shit... we're all universally complicit
You always hear about the deportation of undocumented workers but rarely hear about the management of the companies that hired them facing any repercussions. It's like a revolving door of free labor in a sense.
Not in a sense; in cold hard reality
Politicians know they are working. The illegal immigrants are being let in to work jobs no one else will work. This is known. It’s not okay buts known.
Thats crazy, they never prosecute the people employing that undocumented workers.
I never have heard of any such child labor punishment?
Why would they need a “third party” to investigate? How do you run a business and not know who is working?
I'm willing to bet this admin will quietly alter labor laws so that they can retroactively find that they did nothing wrong by shipping these kids from the border to all over the country.
Meaningful reporting by Hannah Dreier. Great segment b Democracy Now!. Well-spoken guest speakers, including Gregory Chen. This is what should be considered actual news.
Children as young as twelve do not know how to forge the documents to get these jobs. The corporations who are hiring them need to be investigated and CEOs, Presidents, Vice Presidents and HR need to be held criminally liable. Anyone who is involved with forging the documentation for these children needs to be held criminally liable, even if t is the parents of these children. Any government officials who have failed to enforce the law should also be held criminally liable.
If the Country allows undocumented immigrants to remain in the USA and violates its own hiring laws and policies, then what laws are they suppose to uphold? This country must first decide to honor the border laws (Green cards, Visas, etc.) that are designed to eliminate child abuse laws, such as these! Soon there will be no laws at all, if this keeps up!
@@Icare202 Exactly! I agree with you 100% All laws need to be enforced, what is the point of having them if they're not enforced. Border laws absolutely must be enforced, and if needed, border walls must be constructed. One in the south is needed. It was needed a long time ago. We can save ourselves a lot of issues by enforcing our borders.
@Cheryl K.,
*Hear!* *HEAR!!!* 🤗
@@cherylk.2474 Let's stop GENERATING waves of migration, by stopping our imperial foreign policies! "We" support just about every brutal government because brutality lowers the cost of labor!
you can thank the stain in the White House for that and the depression of low skilled workers wages. close the border
These are children! Sounds like human trafficking of kids which is deplorable at best. What can we do to help them? They deserve a better future than what they are getting. Thank you 💛 Amy and Juan for shining light on this.
Send them back to where they came from.
We could close the border. Imagine that.
@@chairmanofthebored6860 if you watch the video , they came here legally
Well you voted Democrat more than likely so you voted that way
@@mansanayanaranjado That's debatable
For any kid who loses his life or is permanently injured, there should be CRIMINAL charges filed against the company CEO.
They prob do not employ them - they subcontract out so they dont even know whats going on or who’s working there - that’s how they like it.
Yes, but no charges for the administration who blindly let them in, making this possible and easier than ever. Makes perfect sense. Who exactly do you think hires undocumented illegal aliens who can't get a job because they have no paperwork?
@@steveanimatrix3887 Who hires these people? Employers who want to pay under the legal wage, like for roofing, farm labor, canneries, slaughterhouses, etc. And they probably won't dare apply for social security because they might get deported, etc.
Eye for eye
during covid the usa govt held hundreds of "migrant" children in cages, then gave them away and lost records for many
Invite them here and then deny them a way to make money. Absolutely genius
This story needs to be told in South America.
Not only fine the companies but "people need to be fired and imprisoned!" There were those who knew, people in positions of responsibility who knew this was going on.
Follow the money.
Start with "The border is secure" Mayorkas.
It’s hard to imagine this would take place without the okay from regulators.
That would be ALL the Democrats in both houses who blocked Trump's wall to all now Including President Potato Head. "Open Boarders" GTFOoH
@@jackrackham4618 You do realize drugs are crossing the border through tunnels that were dug long before the wall? And to add insult trump canceled supports the US was providing to help minimize the need to emigrate to the United States and safety. Numbers of people crossing the border, before trump, was only a small fraction of what it is now.
It will take a little more time to get things back to a manageable number of immigrants crossing our southern border.
"Follow the money." The most important concept I learned in grad school.
this story is heartbreaking
Absolutely everyone who had a part-- even a peripheral part--in these horrors must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Joey boy is letting them come across the border.
Does that include the NGO’s who convinced people to send their kids to America to be exploited in the first place?🤷🏻
Including kamala and biden!!
Biden. Is root of all evil
imagine not knowing all your institutions are a joke
Disgusting... we need a full list of employers abusing these children and boycott them all.
I know right!!! I'm sick of these Chinese communist forcing labour on children. Disgusting 3rd world behavior
After 1 Years Biden had DROPED THE BALL when his CORPORATE SPONSERS threaten Biden . Biden is a psychopath.
Nothing ever gets throughly followed through by any agency that’s supposed to check on children. Look at the foster program and adopted children that fall through the cracks when given to families that treat them badly and or end up killed. More needs to be done.
These corporate executives need to be in jail! As should the politicians who allowed this to happen! This is human trafficking and its a crime. Everyone involved needs severe punishment, the staffing agencies, the regulators, the human traffickers, the immigration system, the child welfare system, it all needs to be fixed so this never happens again!
Yes, because fines are not enough.
Very well said!
YES! Biden and Kamala first!
you mean joe biden?
It's the entire system that's wretched and broken, if it were your car you would send it to the dump and get one that works.
This would stop if our government was not a puppet for corporations. Hold these companies criminally liable for breaking the law.
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This would stop if we would enforce our immigration laws.
Hizzie, you said better than I did. Thanks !
Arrested for the murders of these children who died, our child protection services protect all children who's domicile is the United States~or should. But how? They barely protect the children born here, in the foster care system is not only still broken and has been for decades but it is diseased and cancerous
The difference between R’s and D’s? Republicans are openly & blatantly for corporations, Democrats just SAY they’re for the people while doing nothing- wink, wink, nod, nod.
As long as corporate malfeasance can be written off as cost of doing business this will never stop
Welcome to FSA. (formerly USA)
Open borders traitors got their wish, hope they enjoy dealing with the mess they created. But no, they just complain endlessly.
Apparently there are no consequences for abuse of children!
Biden claimed he didn't even know he had an additional grandchild, so this is the man responsisble for watching over ANY children in this country???? That's why you'll never see Biden shed one tear over the infants he blows up in Gaza.
I want a list of the companies and products to make sure I am already not using them. Seriously! I refuse to support businesses who exploit children!
Corporations have one idealism. One purpose. One desirable result. "PROFIT" Nothing else at all. Just profit. They have armies of lawyers backing them. Who do the people have?
Nobody. Amy isn't prosecuting these jackals. She isn't even investigation. It isn't enough to be angry. The for profit system for making everything damn thing we need isn't viable.
even Nike and apple (dem woke approved)
A nation founded on free labor will ALWAYS seek free/forced labor...
Maybe all these news agencies should be publishing the names of all the guilty parties. I know in Canada, there was human trafficking abuse in a major hotel chain but the media wouldn't publish the guilty party. So much protection these companies are given. Just name the companies so the consumer can chose to boycott or not.
I heard Cheerios, Frito Lay, Ford, Hearthside..there are others. Time to boycott, it is the least we can do.
That would be ALL the Democrats in both houses who blocked Trump's wall to all now Including President Potato Head. "Open Boarders" GTFOoH
@@jackrackham4618 That wall was a silly idea when there are all those other ways to get into the US. Tunnels, boats, private aircraft... Wall: very expensive, accomplished nothing.
I should add that some good ranch land was taken from ranchers so that wall could be built, but the topography was a challenge...🤪
@@sheldonbodryn1003 No point in caring about any walls or fences. Norway just announced they will be constructing barriers to Russia. To me, it is all talking points. Total hypocrisy on America as promotion appears to be high. I agree. They accomplish nothing. Governments are money wasters so..."who cares"??? as we have no say!!!
@@sheldonbodryn1003Disagree
Those companies are going to get a slap on the wrist
Recently in Greeley Colorado at a meat packing company, underaged kids were found cleaning up the remains of cattle. This company must be fined and charged with abuse.
These are human rights violations. Also, there is no way these kids have the proper paperwork to be working legally. Who are these businesses who are hiring them?
Neither do adult illegal aliens.
My question exactly. Somebody hires them some human being who calls himself or herself an American, who has their own children, maybe even vthe same ages.
}Listen the Golden rule really needs to apply to children without fail~do unto others children, ALL children, as you would have others do unto YOUR children77
That is the question! Who would do this??
They shouldn’t be here anyway
America never valued human rights.. it owned slaves and segregation..
The Staffing agencies need to be investigated.
they should be but you want like it because most are mexican owned not white republican like you think it is
@@markcortez5685 IDC who owns, who is invested in or who staffs those agencies. They are violating US Child Labor Laws and just violating Children in general. Jail/Fines are their future or it better be. No more lying about the situation. Children that have not had the advantages that their Own countries should have seen to give them. Leaders of those countries use their people as servants. They Do Not Serve the People and that is what all Governments should be doing in this 21st Century. One day, One day, people will start demanding that of them. One day.
Biden. Open the borders for cartels. Bb those families that came in Owed the cartels huge sums of money.
This is why they want open borders. Slave labor for increased profits.
Which ones?
I'm gonna need a list of companies to keep my money away from.
Then you better stop consuming any products from overseas as well.
The products brand names and the sub-brand names is what I am researching. So I can avoid those products all together.
@Babs Kaz this is the answer
@@RockyOasis24 STOP VOTING DNC
@@angelacahill9460 True. Coffee, tea, cocoa producers all have a history of exploiting workers.
Ummm Nooooooo. Absolutely NOT ALLOWED. Boycott all of these companies everyone!!!
These things never stop
In a wicked world
Great job Hannah Dreier. I was so blind to this. I have worked in many factories. Never seen kids in the ones I worked in. These companies need to be fined big time.
well this is s ruse like the spy baloons
Shut down . They manufacture garbage anyway
I hope the most egregious companies go bankrupt!
Fined and jailed
These companies need to face the corporate death penalty.
Fine the hell out of each and every company that is in violation! They were gonna keep that up continuously until busted! Show's how dirty these companies across America.
Why do we jail (and fine) the working class but only fine corporations? Individual people are responsible and they all need to go to prison for their crimes. Fine them too, but lock these sociopaths up.
if you own a pair of nikes or an iphone child slavery made it so don't get all high and mighty yet
Shut them down. F their profits!
@@alrightyru The company members also MUST be arrested AND prosecuted and jailed for a long time!!
Jerry Robinson You comment shows what your heart is really like. Just fine them???? This is a human rights violation. 12 children have been killed! You don't think prison is in order????
The people that put these kids to work need to be put in jail instead of being find insignificant amounts
Stop being greedy and start paying ADULTS
Is there a list of companies that are violating and exploiting children? I would like to know so that that I never buy from that corporation/ company again.
Democrats need to accept accountability for not taking control of the border even while they hold the Presidency. I say this as a registered Democrat. Immigration to this country must be restricted to safe and legal routes.
GOD bless you
Close the damn border joe
Here's the thing, the US is stealing kids from South America because if we don't the impending population decline is going to put us in a big bind. But I'm not defending this shit.
They are here legally .
@@jamezbrian4135 they are here legally
My heart breaks for them . They need homes and families .. they need
Love and caring ..
How much money are you willing to contribute?
@@omni1omni244 How much are democrats giving, they are responsible for this. Joey boy.
They need to get their asses out of our country!!
They need to be reunited with their families in Mexico and Central America.
They had a home and a family… who sent them as minors alone to another country. What could possibly go wrong?
These mega-rich companies should all be sued for billions of dollars for abusing these children!
11:20 - the Michigan schools were releasing them early based on what reason. The educational system in Michigan isn't protecting children! California teachers are required to call Social Services if they SUSPECT child abuse. Why wasn't this reported?
Any of these Executives of these companies that did this need to be put in prison.
I worked as a kid as young as 8, but it was completely different. I worked to have spending money, I work around school, I didn't work because I was threatened and indebted. I loved working and having that independence, but this is awful and I hope more is done to protect them from this obvious exploitation.
If children are being released to people without proper vetting then having their labor exploited is probably the least bad thing among all the bad things happening to them. Just read between the lines a little and you will see the sexual abuse scandal under the surface.
I guess you don't know anyone that lived in foster care. It's like that in foster homes and group homes.
It's heart wrenching to hear children die on the job. Without any support, these child migrants are at the mercy of profiteering adults and I'm sure the deaths are under reported.
Yes, about time Democracy Now! addresses this!
As long as law makers are able to accept money from lobbyists, the law makers will not be for the people. They are for their pocketbook. This is so sick, those children are human beings and have no voice and are being used and abused and worked to death. Regardless of politics this is just sick and wrong. Human slavery is alive and well in the United States.
We need term limits for all elected offices. It is the only way we can regain control of our government and stop corporations from being able to buy politicians. The longer the politician is in office, the more corrupt they become.
I have noticed and met more and more teenage kids who are working full-time and giving much of their checks to help their parents pay rent with the skyrocketing costs of housing in general. Working well beyond regulated hours and being exploited in the sense that they are the only people willing to work for minimal pay when many restaurants are refusing to increase pay beyond 10/hr. When you have no experience and don't know your worth you will work for anything and deal with much more shit. Things are getting bad for everyone, everywhere..
Bless Hannah Dreier for her outstanding work, work that has proved invaluable to efforts to introduce reforms into corrupt systems in the United States and in South America (Venezuela, specifically, where her life was threatened by agents of the Maduro government). May this courageous multi-award winning journalist continue her truly essential work for many decades to come.
And heartfelt thanks to Democracy Now for continuing to provide the kind of revelatory information that every moral citizen needs to know.
Why is this not ALL OVER MAINSTREAM MEDIA?
What a shame that these children were handed off to people who only care about exploiting them. I can’t imagine what they have gone through just to find some sort of stability.
Whoever is sending these children and whoever is accepting these children into their employment, need to be jailed, fined to the absolute limit. How has no one at one of these employment agencies NOT blown the whistle on these practices? How do they sleep at night?
Yes the corporations and the others there should be Nuremberg type trails for criminals who are doing this!
Notably, the White House Press Secretary did NOT say any capitalists would be prosecuted for their crimes, only that there would be governmental "scrutiny" going forward.
Posted from your iPhone made by child slave labor I'm sure
Who do u think bought hunters artwork for 500k. ????
@@godbyone You sound like you're under the illusion this is a partisan issue. We're in a class war and the working class is getting slaughtered. Stop giving the propaganda channels that divide the working class your attention. Their goal is to render us clueless and make us fight among ourselves instead of fighting them.
@@longshotpunk You're broken.
@@JENTHINKSO also posted from your Iphone which was built with child slave labor....
Hard to believe not one adult working with these children reported this.
That's because they know if they say anything they will lose their jobs
that was my first thought.
Thank you for checking this out. Old baldy from MSNBC was fully aware and got his ass handed to him. Russell is amazing. Praying the lord protects him.
Jail those business owners hiring children for labor :::
I’m so disappointed in Ben & Jerry’s. I can’t believe they slowed this garbage.
Anyone who puts migrant kids to work like this needs to be in prison.
Those forcing a child to work should be prosecuted to highest extent of the law with prison and fines.
Hell awaits them !!!!
Trafficking. 100% thats what this is. Arrethe CEO's. There is no other answer. Anything less is a nod to continue.
The adults that hired them need to be arrested for child labor. Fined. Or shut down.
It's not a labour violation it's people/child trafficking.
It doesn't matter whether the kids were here "legally" or not. Child labor is wrong, no matter what the kid has "done". That's the entire point.
It goes on all over the world. The luxury of having a "childhood" is very rare and very recent in history.
No they shouldn't be in the country. This is a form of wage theft.
@@robbycole7047 That is not what wage theft is.
@@sparrowhawk81 you must be an illegal yourself.
@@robbycole7047 babybrain
Shocking, all companies should be held accountable.
democrats leave border open
@@jamezbrian4135The "democrats" are stopping MORE than the ex LIAR-IN-CHIEF did. Seems like since this particular situation grew exponentially in 2017, the previous administration has some answers to come up with. The borders are not open. That's reich-wingnut speak.
That would be ALL the Democrats in both houses who blocked Trump's wall to all now Including President Potato Head. "Open Boarders" GTFOoH
There is nothing shocking about this. This kind of thing has been going on for the entirety of recorded history, more so since the creation of money/currency, and more so since the creation of "America."
This kind of thing has been the norm throughout the history of the US -- from the funding of the "exploration" to the founding of the government entity -- beginning when wealthy-class right-wing Europeans stole the American-landscape from the rightful owners and committed genocide against them.
Here's your free lesson(s) for the day:
Right-wing politics are pro-wealthy-class politics.
Right-wing politics are anti-working-class politics.
The exploration of the American-landscape was funded by European wealthy-class right-wingers.
The founding of the American government-entity was perpetrated by European wealthy-class right-wingers.
BOTH the Republican & Democrat parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by wealthy-class right-wingers, most of European ancestry.
Slavery, manipulation, and exploitation are all inherent in the politics of the wealthy-class right-wingers, and in America.
Hoarding, materialism, and addiction are all inherent in the lifestyles of wealthy-class right-wingers, and in the working-class fools who vote for wealthy-class right-wingers.
The wealthy-class owners of American businesses used chattel-slave labor in the past, and working-class leftists fought against it.
The wealthy-class owners of American businesses use wage-slave labor in the present, and working-class leftists are fighting against it.
But there are too many working-class morons in America who vote for wealthy-class right-wing Repubs and wealthy-class right-wing Dems, rather than standing up to those wealthy-class right-wingers.
These working-class voters are dumb, so they vote against their own best interests. And the wealthy-class right-wingers love stupid people, because stupid people make better slaves.
That is why the wealthy-class right-wing plantation owners prevented their slaves from learning in the past, and it is the same reason why wealthy-class right-wing business owners want to defund public education in the present.
The wealthy-class right-wingers don't want educated citizens -- They want stupid slaves who are incapable of identifying their own oppressors. But, working-class leftists keep fighting against the wealthy-class right-wingers.
In fact, despite the sabotage committed by their own working-class mates who do the bidding of wealthy-class right-wingers, the working-class leftists have been somewhat successful.
Wealthy-class right-wingers have been exporting American jobs and businesses for decades because working-class American leftists have been so successful at fighting against the chattel-slavery and wage-slavery imposed by wealthy-class right-wingers. These wealthy-class American right-wingers are doing the same thing that wealthy-class Nazi right-wingers and wealthy-class Confederate right-wingers did: FLEEING.
Of course, after the wealthy-class Nazis and Confederates snuck out the door and left the working-class Germans and Southern-Americans holding the metaphorical bag, there were troubling times for the working-class Germans and Southern-Americans who couldn't afford to flee. And working-class Americans should expect the same.
When the wealthy-class right-wingers finally decide to focus all of their exploitation, manipulation, and slavery on some other group of working-class people in some other country, working-class Americans should expect to come to know the true meaning of the word "struggle."
I could go on. But, for anyone who would use such a hyperbolic phrase as "shocking" to explain something so regular as American-slavery, I presume I've already given such a person more information than they can comprehend in one sitting.
Long story short: This video/story is just continuing the exposure of the right-wing politics that are ingrained by the wealty-class into the American sh!thole.
There is literally -- not figuratively -- NOTHING shocking about this.
how old are they? I'm from a non immigrant working class family and in the 1980s and 1990s we were working part time in dirty dangerous jobs beginning at around age 12. At age 14 we could work longer hrs. In my neighborhood in Baltimore there was a 70% high school drop out rate. Parents were often addicts, some teens filed for emancipation. It was an old cycle. My mother dropped out of high school at the age of 15 to help my grandmother pay the rent. She worked in a cotton processing mill, in a peuter figurine factory... I had a dozen jobs as a teen ... yes, using illegal machinery. Good that you're exposing this, but doesn't only affect migrant workers and it is not a new development.
Thank you for letting us know about your experience
Amazing this is going on in your own country and yet your country has the audacity to point to other countries such as China, India, ect using children for labor. Hypocrisy at its finest!
Forget fines. Put the CEOs in prison for several years. One CEO jailed will end this bs in one day. Don’t let them buy their way out of this.
Forcing teens to stay home and play video games is also abuse, and prevents growth.
Grimmway in California is currently thought to employ almost 8% of their staff with kids under 16. None of whom speak English and many who are threatened with immigration if they say anything. Also because your children they don't get minimum wage they get paid about $5 an hour
May they; and those like them; go to Hell !!!!!!!!
They shouldn't even be allowed in the country without having first vetted their 'families'
Disgusting! But those big corporations want to maximize profits, right?
BOYCOTT HEARTHSIDE FOODS.
Should we not imprison the parents, guardians, and sponsors of these children. As Guardians they have a responsibility to keep an eye and watch these children.
Absolutely 💯
This breaks my heart so much 😢 as a mother to teens my heart a h for these young people. My kids have after school jobs by choice, no child should feel the burden of debt, entrapment or enslavement. How is this even possible in our country 😔
Capitalism as a religion. That's how.
These kids were not hard to find. EXACTLY. People know what’s happening. They need to speak up.
It is exactly why the boarder is open. Parentless children cheap and disposable. Money made by both sides - is why the political people want the immigrants to flow in. They own the companies using them so they making money to.
God bless those kids for the bravery to stand up and tell someone that they were being done wrong
@@ashleylaw As long as the kids give their money, if any, back to their parents, or their masters, I don't see a problem. At least they are being not made fat in Trump's cages.
They accused China of cheap labour whilst they committed much more serious crime.
Because they interfere in South America's politics and ruin lives, so people flee. Kids coming to the US is worked out by adults.
Hey can you PLEASE put these names out for investigation? the gaurdians for these kids should be liable for this....
The parents of those children know exactly what they're doing in order to survive. What kind of a parent would send a 12 yr old to travel to US border unsupervised. These children are being exploited by various companies for cheap labor, their sponsors, and their families.
Parents who are living in desperate conditions, beyond the imagination of the typical American. I am not defending it, but if you learn the whole story, you can understand why sending off your 12 year old is the BETTER option. There are no opportunities there, aside from gang warfare and death.
No doubt, both of your comments are true. I have met a woman who was leased to a bordello by her family when she was 12. She was fed, clothed, educated, all medical and dental taken care of, and could see her family anytime they wished.
Her lease expired when she was 18. She chose to re-up her contract for another 4 years, this time, the money went to her instead of her family.
She used her savings to go to school.
She was happy to help her family out in this way.
It is more common than we realize. These people come from desperate poverty. It's a different world.
Desperate people. But let talk about the pigs who are enslaving them out.
@FernandoAvelarify Did the truth hurt your feeling's?
@@hassanas.benjamin3818 Do you mean their parent's and the cartel's.
Let me guess, the companies had no idea that this was going on. Insert no tolerance policy here...
That is the purpose of illegal immigration, to have a workforce that is outside the law. If we don't follow immigration laws why would we worry about the other laws? These people work under the table.
Ding ding ding. Finally someone who gets it! Illegal immigration keeps wages for working class people suppressed. The US is the only country on earth that rolls out the carpet for illegal aliens.
There was a shooting by an Asian man at a mushroom farm in California. The media didn't say the shooter was illegal, but he worked at a mushroom farm and all the people there were illegal. The farm owners paid the people less than minimum wage, then charged them rent to live in deplorable trailers with no heat or insulation.
Illegal immigration is exploitive of the people and terrible for working class people. The only people who benefit are the corporations. Everyone else and taxpayers lose. And let's not even start talking about crime...
In another word, "slavery."
“ an open border is an endless supply of slave labor with no rights.“ Cesar Chavez
(that’s why the government wants it open then and now)
Cesar Chavez, a Mexican, Fought to have the border of California controlled.
And formed the united farm workers union.
An open border affects poor people of the country the most.
Thinking and open border is some kind of humanitarian act is twisted and evil
You just described Obiden's and his administration.
Questionable indeed(⁉️)
How many years in prison will the CEOs have to serve?
ZERO
They're coming here to live the American dream & that's exactly what's happening - they're getting the reality of that dream.
Luckily, I do not eat junk food. These companies are pure evil.
I remember old union song goes something like " why pay adult a dollar if you can pay child a dime"
Yes and then it was outlawed thank god.
Thank you for posting that saying because the adults can't make enough to provide for their families so they sacrificing their children to make ends meet!!!!! I want to give a big shout out to the rich in their Ivory Towers what comes around goes around!!!!!!!
Where's OSHA in all of this? Balancing while working on a roof, has fallen before, where's the safety harness? As others have already said, even those on the periphery of this human catastrophe should be held accountable.
Give the money from the fine to the children who were abused.
Put the kids in charge of inspection and prosecution!
@@jeffmoore9487
🤔😏 You're such a rebel.
Sends those kids back to their country/parents with that money. We don't own them anything they came here after Brandon opened the border!
@@lindaobrien2659 Give the money to the kids! Abusing immigrant labor really sucks!
The consequences of a wide open border.
How do kids not only work for these supply chains, but also how do they DIE in the workplace and no one on the outside find out or ask questions ?!
Deaths are reported to the Department of Labor - and the Department of Labor keeps these numbers hidden from the public.
How horrific and extremely sad those executives should be charged.
What exactly happens when a migrant child dies in a factory or at a job site?
Who's held responsible?
Perhaps some consumer report can publish a list of every single company and sub company involved in this atrocity.
How did we seriously not know this was going on
what if they are woke approved like Nike, apple, Levi, or other brands the left worships
Yes don't keep it a secret, I'm definitely going to boycott
Politicians Democrats, Republicans and Independent knew what’s going on, that why they letting the unaccompanied come here. Plus the sued to release them in ten days. SHAM SHAM.
@@monamartin9915 it's a little more intricate and complicated than that Once they successfully cross the border into the United States that's it, we are responsible for them. It's just that the problem is so overwhelming, it is literally a massive and profound human crisis and the numbers so great that as of yet, nobody has found anything remotely workable as a solution. We can put men on the moon...
Because those who is behind this owns the mainstream media, the courts and the politicians.
Now you know the real reason to let them come in, cheap labor force
No blame for the parents who send their children across the border? The border has not become more restrictive as proven by the numbers loving here for the asylum.
The fact that no one is saying Ben & Jerry and all the other CEO's should be arrested and charged let's me know this isn't a serious concern for anyone.
Well said !!!!
Not 1 owner name or management. Mess not Press. Same owners will change their names or move to a country that is OK with it. Investigating and not arresting tell you everything.
Thank you for revealing these children's tragedy.They sure do not deserve slave exploitation in the democratic USA!
How do they find this cheap labor?
I work construction, and we're desperate for help.
What can we do? Thats what we need to be talking about.
As a conservative this type of crap pisses me off and has been going on under every president for years going back. Every time I've mentioned this as a serious problem with immigration to my colleagues I've been either laughed at or told I'm trying to use it as an excuse to keep immigrants out. Its disgusting to play politics with children under any guise or by either side so thank you for putting this story out. Maybe now this will be enough to crack the coldest hearts out there who don't seem to care about the abuse of children.
If you pay attention, this has been recently. The number they found increased by more than 100000.
They are here legally and were sent to verified caregivers.
I was a foster child. What will happen to the new children to be born now to impoverished women? Will they be put to labor at a young age in Foster Care?
Did you know that in Iowa lawmakers have tried to pass laws allowing children at age 14 to do this labor? And there's kids are here legally so the corporations would be ALLOWED to let these kids work.
Plus included in that legislation would be to remove culpability on those companies if the child dies while at these jobs.
@@mansanayanaranjado whoa. Can you write an open letter to e ery legislation and media leader to understand this? You know what you are talking about. Don't stop.
I am horrified!!! Great job Hannah. Thank you
It was not only hitler jugend...
It’s crazy that people are so unable to say no to cheap labor that they can’t even see where to draw the line. At some point you are undermining humanity, not helping the company.
How in the heck does a 14 year old fine himself or herself an place to live!!!!
The corporate office does that for them. It's essentially a legal slave trade.
As a previous manager, in a restaurant company. I assure you they come in with fake documents, and you're not allowed to question those documents... the states that have E-verify takes months to get the verification back, and by then the employee has already moved to a new job. They know the system.
Wait what’s this got to do with child labor and abuse?
@Hard_Cold_Truth they come in as illegal unaccompanied minors... they are placed in "care" of relatives who aren't relatives ... they are basically trafficking rings that put these kids to work with fake documents, and when these kids are paid, the money is taken and to pay off the cartels that moved them across the border. Many of these employers have no idea how old these kids are .. why because they use forged documents. The government doesn't give them new IDs once they are let in .... they purchase fakes through their own system. Sit down and talk to illegals ... once they trust you, they will tell you the stories of how they live and get ushered through the system. Minors are used as slave labor here, and they are automatically allowed to stay in the USA, so it's the best cash flow for the trafficking rings and cartels. Over the years working in restaurants, you hear their stories. The politicians won't pass E verify laws for every state, so the states that don't verify the SS# to the name they use give them the ability to hide in the system. Take some time .. research it ... everyone wants to scream about the company ... but as someone who has encountered 13 yr Olds with documents showing them as 17 and older, you can only go with what you're given. The documents look real and most states have no system to verify