Posted on 03/02/2023 11:24:39 AM PST by EBH
In a follow-up tweet, Dreier reported that Hearthside, the parent company of Cheetos, Nature Valley, Lucky Charms, had lost a significant percentage of its workforce after checking for child laborers. (Yikes)
Most of these children are not illegal immigrants, but rather kids who arrived legally through the help of a sponsor. In the past, these children were protected by the Department of Health and Human Services, but as numbers grow, old systems began breaking down.
According to the NYT, instability in Central and South America, along with the pandemic, has significantly exacerbated the United States child labor problem. "The number of unaccompanied minors entering the United States climbed to a high of 130,000 last year — three times what it was five years earlier." In response to this influx, "the Biden White House has ramped up demands on staffers to move the children quickly out of shelters and release them to adults," according to the NYTimes. However, this change has resulted in difficulties with properly vetting sponsors.
Some sponsors are now illegally taking on dozens of children, and profiting off of the debts those children owe them. “It’s getting to be a business for some of these sponsors,” a former case worker told the NYT. Ironically, the United States' method of circumventing human trafficking has turned into a government-sponsored system of just that, with a sprinkle of indentured servitude thrown in.
Hearthside claims that many of its employees were hired through a staffing agency that was not required to verify age through social security numbers. Without this extra verification, many children are able to land jobs by using false paperwork. A representative claims that they are now taking that step.
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OK, so where are the adults who should have those jobs?
Democrats used to be the party of black slavery. Now they’re the party of child labor.
Joe Biden’s America, this must be his plan to compete with China.
More fruits of the illegal immigrant invasion
I call BS on the article they are not illegals - if they are legal, then they have legal ID, which includes their age.
Am also calling BS on the “selfie” photo of the “child worker” in street clothes and dirty chuck taylors above the cheetoh line. I’ve been in a lot of big food plants, and no one goes into the plant without full PPE gear, shoe+head coverings, etc...
“Democrats used to be the party of black slavery. Now they’re the party of child labor.”
Plenty of Republicans would happily go along with it if you gave them the right ‘donation’.
The entire SOP of the media is not to report.
It’s to destroy.
TRUTH
Instability in Central and South America?
Latin America has been unstable for the last 10,000 years.
We have illegal kids being trafficked because Joe Biden - with the tacit approval of the Republican Party - has opened USA borders to all comers.
Talking Point #1 — These children are not here illegally.
Talking Point #2 — These children are here because of instability in Central and South America.
Reconcile.
I would also add this is not "child labor." Those "sponsoring" these children paid for them and you can be sure their wages are being kicked back to the "sponsors."
It's not "child labor." It's slavery.
So Cheetos was cheeting?
STOCKPILE CHEETOS!!
Price is goin’ UP UP UP!!
Children and Fentanyl Mom’s hardest hit
Where are they making those things????
The thought of eating something produced under those circumstances.... And I kind of liked them when I could eat them. They were never my first choice of snack food, but I would not turn them down.
Dimocrats are controlling people. They love to take choices away from people. Those dims who have no power like for someone else to make decisions for them. They are SICK people. That is why they are all miserable
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Hearthside = Cheetos???
Cheetos is a Frito-Lay product (Pepsi subsidary)
They walked across our Southern border.
Cheetos stole my childhood.
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