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Labor Dept. says Tennessee Firm Employed Minors to Clean Meat Saws
Fayette Janitorial LLC employed 15 children to clean dangerous equipment at a Perdue Farms plant in Virginia and nine to clean a Seaboard Triumph Foods pork plant in Iowa.
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... Another industrial slaughterhouse cleaner has been accused by the U.S. Labor Department of illegally employing children as young as 13 to clean dangerous equipment on overnight shifts, according to a temporary restraining order filed in federal court Wednesday. The Labor Department said that Tennessee-based Fayette Janitorial LLC illegally employed 15 children to clean a Perdue Farms poultry plant in Virginia and nine to clean a Seaboard Triumph Foods pork processing plant in Iowa. ... Overall, the Labor Department reports a 152% increase in children illegally employed by companies since 2018. Many of them are Central Americans who came to the U.S. as unaccompanied minors. More than 300,000 children, most from Guatemala and Honduras, have entered the U.S. by themselves in the past three years, according to the Department of Health and Human Services ...
The Labor Department said that Tennessee-based Fayette Janitorial LLC illegally employed 15 children to clean a Perdue Farms poultry plant in Virginia and nine to clean a Seaboard Triumph Foods pork processing plant in Iowa. ...
Overall, the Labor Department reports a 152% increase in children illegally employed by companies since 2018. Many of them are Central Americans who came to the U.S. as unaccompanied minors. More than 300,000 children, most from Guatemala and Honduras, have entered the U.S. by themselves in the past three years, according to the Department of Health and Human Services ...
#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-21 11:44 AM | Reply
You start locking up business owners over this practice and watch how fast it stops.
#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-02-21 12:51 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2
Americans and their faux outrage over child labor. The same Americans purchase imported trinkets every day from countries using child labor.
This is what the undocumented have to do to feed themselves in this country. If you're for open borders - stfu.
#3 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-02-21 01:08 PM | Reply
@#3 ... This is what the undocumented have to do to feed themselves in this country ...
As the website for the Customs and Border Patrol union once said...
An excerpt from the Border Patrol Union webpage that was deleted during fmr Pres Trump's term: web.archive.org
Walls and fences are temporary solutions that focus on the symptom (illegal immigration) rather than the problem (employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens). Walls and fences are only a speed bump. People who want to come to the United States to obtain employment will continue to go over, under, and around the walls and fences that are constructed. Walls and fences will undoubtedly result in an increase in fraudulent documents and smuggling through the Ports of Entry. Walls and fences do not solve the issue of people entering the country legally and staying beyond the date they are required to leave the country, a problem which will undoubtedly increase as more walls and fences are constructed.
#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-21 01:12 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
#4
Sure tell that to California, tell California to tear down its wall. Walls work, California is a perfect example of walls working, sure there are holes but they can be mitigated. Again not perfect, but much more than a "speed bump".
The idea isn't to stop all illegal immigration, its to create so much friction that fewer and fewer people come. Unlike the chaos Biden has created on the border. Obama, and Trump both worked create this "friction". Biden has done away with it.
Goes back to my OpenBorder solution at POE, give citizenship to all that cross.
Finally detain and deport illegal immigrants, and watch the flow slow to a trickle.
Open up the POE to allow more migrants into the country legally.
You start locking up business owners over this practice and watch how fast it stops. #2 | POSTED BY NIXON
Employers don't knowingly hire illegal immigrants. Employers hire firms to handle the contract work fulfillment. The firms are run by recent immigrants probably even associated with Cartels to pay off debt. Its an old game but brought to life in modern times because there is an abundant amount of illegal labor.
#5 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-02-21 01:53 PM | Reply | Funny: 2
open borders
*drink*
Employers don't knowingly hire illegal immigrants. E
--------. They know and they look the other way. Most 13 year olds do not look like adults.
Employers hire firms to handle the contract work fulfillment.
Then lock the owners of those firms up.
What I see is you making excuses for the abuse of minors. How republicrap of you.
A few of these people in jail would end it, but you go right ahead excusing it.
#6 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-02-21 01:57 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3
@#5 ... Employers don't knowingly hire illegal immigrants. Employers hire firms to handle the contract work fulfillment ...
imo, the latter intentionally enables the former.
#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-21 02:42 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
-Then lock the owners of those firms up.
for hiring illegals or 13 years olds?
2 separate issues unless they are both.
we will continue to look the other way on hiring illegals.
Not so sure about the 13 year olds.......
#8 | Posted by eberly at 2024-02-21 03:29 PM | Reply
So let's see...$5 fine and move on?
#9 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-02-21 03:30 PM | Reply
Nobody wants to work anymore!
#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-02-21 04:39 PM | Reply
#6 | POSTED BY NIXON AT 2024-02-21 01:57 PM
Your boy is at bat.
#11 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-02-21 04:52 PM | Reply
Goes back to my OpenBorder solution #5 | POSTED BY 1LUMPER2
You're not for open borders.
You proved you don't even know what "open borders" means.
You're so absurdly ignorant, no wonder you're a Trumper.
#12 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-02-21 05:05 PM | Reply
Employers don't knowingly hire illegal immigrants. #5 | POSTED BY 1LUMPER2
Of course they don't.
*wink wink* *nudge nudge*
I find it adorable you've been in American for five whole days and you've memorized all the Trumper's talking points.
#13 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-02-21 05:09 PM | Reply | Funny: 1
@#13 ... *wink wink* *nudge nudge* ...
Exactly.
Hiring contractors instead of employees seems to be the reason why employers use contractors.
It gives them the ability to deny.
~Honest Judge, when I saw that 13-year-old cleaning that dangerous equipment I had no idea how he was hired. You need to talk to the contractor.~
Taking a step back, where are most of the meat-packing plants located? Blue or red states?
Will the locally-elected law enforcement and Judges want to go against those plant-owners that push money into the campaign coffers of those locally elected officials?
This goes back to the underlying question....
Why don't Republicans want to solve the border problem?
My answer: because the border problem benefits them.
#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-21 06:45 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
find it adorable you've been in American for five whole days and you've memorized all the Trumper's talking points. #13 | POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK
Keep reading clownhut.
If you can tolerate the truth. You contextomy then imply something entirely different than the post says.
#15 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-02-21 06:49 PM | Reply
#14 who says they are Republicans?
#16 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-02-21 06:50 PM | Reply
Because they benefit two ways.
First they get to blame Biden and use it as a campaign issue over and over even though when they are presented any sort of bill to start fixing the issue they vote it down over and over and over again.
Second their owners get to hire underage unaccompanied minors to work for minimum wage in dangerous jobs. If they die or are injured there is plenty more streaming in.
#17 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-02-22 10:27 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
"Why don't Americans want to solve the border problem?"
FT
#18 | Posted by eberly at 2024-02-22 10:30 AM | Reply
#5 | Posted by oneironaut
For Christ's sake you can't be this stupid.
Do business owners knowingly hire undocumented workers? Are you kidding me - hell yes they do. This is how so many places in this country work period. If there is a large Spanish speaking work force, the work is dirty and/or hard, and the pay is low - you can bet a significant number are undocumented. My company's owners bought a company in California and were advised to not probe the status of the work force too hard. "Do what is legally required to alleviate our responsibility under the law" is what we were told. They all had the documentation they need to work. Over time I figured out about half were undocumented. Which explains why they were making the wages they were when we bought the company.
#19 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2024-02-22 12:26 PM | Reply
#18 | Posted by eberly
AVERAGE Americans do but Politicians and business owners don't. No matter where your leanings virtually all Americans want a "fix". Politicians don't want to "fix" it because they know an actual fix that works will cost them politically AND they lose the ability to use immigration as it is today in their campaigning.
#20 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2024-02-22 12:31 PM | Reply
If you're for open borders - stfu.
Nobody's for that - stfu.
#21 | Posted by JOE at 2024-02-22 12:34 PM | Reply
We could solve a lot of problems with a law attributing crimes of a corporation to the board of directors. Unless they can show otherwise, crimes of the corporation were at their direction. If they didn't know they weren't doing their jobs and the stockholders should hold them responsible.
#22 | Posted by TenMile at 2024-02-22 02:12 PM | Reply
-AVERAGE Americans do but Politicians and business owners don't. No matter where your leanings virtually all Americans want a "fix"
I disagree. When polled, Average Americans say they want this fixed but they are too dumb to know better anyway and politicians and business owners know this.
Average Americans are not the obstacle nor are they the solution.....they'll bitch and moan about it in the meantime but they won't switch parties or their votes over this issue.
IOW, Average Americans don't really care.
#23 | Posted by eberly at 2024-02-22 03:45 PM | Reply
Democrats have a border deal on the table. Why don't republicans want to address the problem they scream and cry about 24/7?
#24 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-02-22 03:55 PM | Reply
-Why don't republicans want to address the problem they scream and cry about 24/7?
Their voters don't care (which was my point) It would help Biden
#25 | Posted by eberly at 2024-02-22 03:58 PM | Reply
I heard that Americans do want to solve this problem.
Why do republicans want to act like Russians?
A report published by the center on Thursday found that 80% of more than 5,000 adult citizens surveyed believe the federal government is not handling the influx well.
www.pewresearch.org
#26 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-02-22 04:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
26
LOL
when has border control ever polled favorably?
Lemme guess....you get all hot and frothy when Pew reports that most americans think the rich need to pay more in taxes.
Good grief.......when has that NOT been the case?
and when has it mattered on election day?
#27 | Posted by eberly at 2024-02-22 04:06 PM | Reply
#25 | Posted by eberly
So for republicans it's more important to harm biden than to address their most pressing issue?
If trump had put climate improving legislation on the table, dems would have pounced on it instead of refusing to give trump a win. They actually want to solve problems instead of just capture power.
#28 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-02-22 04:21 PM | Reply
28
Life is really really really really unfair, isn't it?
#29 | Posted by eberly at 2024-02-22 04:39 PM | Reply
#29 | Posted by eberly
That's a strange response to your party being clearly self serving instead of country serving.
You act like there's no option when there are 2 parties and the other one isn't doing that.
#30 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-02-22 04:50 PM | Reply
30
It's strange to you, little fella.
Life is unfair and you're trying to figure it all out.
Trying to tell me about the options as though I don't know how to vote accordingly.
As though you know who I vote for.
You're cute.....you really are.
You can't even troll as good as snoofy.
maybe you should call my daughter a ---- or talk about her -------- like he does....that's how desperate he is for my attention.
are YOU that desperate?
#31 | Posted by eberly at 2024-02-22 05:01 PM | Reply
#31 | Posted by eberly
Who's the little baby whining that life is unfair? We have options - the party that addresses problems or the party that wants problems to continue for political gain. Isn't it nice to have options?
It would be really strange if you spent every day attacking democrats and then went and voted for them.
#32 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-02-22 05:22 PM | Reply
-Who's the little baby whining that life is unfair?
You
Every single day
You understand that, right? You whine every single day here.
what democrat am I attacking?
#33 | Posted by eberly at 2024-02-22 05:25 PM | Reply
#33 | Posted by eberly
You mistake standing up to fascist propaganda with whining. I can understand how you could mistake them since standing up to fascism is something that your party stopped doing when they became the cult of a con man. It's probably a foreign concept to you.
You attack any and all democrats. Whining about the imperfections in the party that DIDNT attempt a coup instead of the much bigger problems in the party that DID attempt a coup.
#34 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-02-22 05:32 PM | Reply
"standing up"
You really are messed up in the head.
You equate blogging/trolling anonymously with "standing up"
You're the one who's mistaken.
And you're a 100% whiner. You stand up for nothing.
You're nothing.
#35 | Posted by eberly at 2024-02-22 05:35 PM | Reply
"You attack any and all democrats."
link to it anytime, whineloudly.
#36 | Posted by eberly at 2024-02-22 05:36 PM | Reply
You stand up for nothing.
#35 | Posted by eberly
This coming from the person who still can't pick a side after one of them attempted a coup against democracy.
#37 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-02-22 05:47 PM | Reply
you can post the examples of me attacking democrats anytime, whineloudly
#38 | Posted by eberly at 2024-02-22 05:50 PM | Reply
Nobody's for that - stfu. #21 | POSTED BY JOE
I am.
Not this chaos Biden has brought on the country.
But enter at POE, get vetted, get references, and boom, you're a citizen.
Enter outside POE sent to prison for 6 months, then deported.
#39 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-02-22 06:46 PM | Reply
#38 | Posted by eberly
No just like I'm not going to go google links for you to prove that putin hates america and funds republicans.
#40 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-02-22 07:13 PM | Reply
---- hell Tennessee! Barbaric much?! You backwater sister-loving inbred Rednecks...
#41 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-02-22 09:03 PM | Reply
Exactly. Whineloudly is a lying troll.
Nothing more.
#42 | Posted by eberly at 2024-02-22 10:54 PM | Reply
Employers don't knowingly hire illegal immigrants. Employers hire firms to handle the contract work fulfillment. The firms are run by recent immigrants probably even associated with Cartels to pay off debt. Its an old game but brought to life in modern times because there is an abundant amount of illegal labor. #5 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT
I spent a little time working for a top 10 global food manufacturer. While that company did not hire undocumented labor directly, C-suite was absolutely aware of the fact that the farms and processing plants we partnered with relied on undocumented labor. Even in the cases where we owned the farms/plants, we would still contract out much of the labor to give us that all important degree of separation. Many of those partners were little more than shell companies. If those employees were working directly for the company then nearly 40% of the workforce of that huge US based agrabiz would have been undocumented.
#43 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2024-02-23 12:26 PM | Reply
"Employers don't knowingly hire illegal immigrants."
In the old days Goatman would brag about hiring illegals in the Home Depot parking lot.
#44 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-02-23 12:31 PM | Reply
#42 | Posted by eberly
I'm going to need links and quotes to prove I'm a troll, otherwise you're a lying troll.
Also unless you prove that water is wet, we have no reason to listen to anything else you say.
#45 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-02-23 12:31 PM | Reply
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