A recent Department of Labor investigation found at least 50 children working overnight shifts cleaning slaughterhouses across the Midwest. NBC’s Julia Ainsley has more on how the federal government is now looking into whether any of the children were victims of human trafficking.
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SHUT THEM DOWN, SHUT THEM DOWN……..MAY GOD HAVE MERCY….THIS IS UNNACCEPTABLE
That’s what happens when we have an open border!
ALL BECAUSE THEY NEVER WANT TO PAY REAL WAGES TO ADULT WORKERS. ITS ALL ABOUT CUTTING COSTS. POOR CHILDREN WHO WERE TRAFFICKED AND TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF, DISGUSTING.
Nebraska, what are the republicans doing
Those children must be desperate! What happens to them now? Where do they find work? What about all those other children pouring in through the wide open borders?
When the border is wide open, People take advantage of it…….
Another reason to Build the Wall!!!
If you really care about human suffering, you’d want the borders Closed.
This used to be legal in America, like many other laws that used to protect workers, I can see them going to back to the old days.
Doesn’t surprise me. Aren’t they both owned by Blackstone? Putting profits above human decency.
I just luv the Left or RIght being “OutRaged”. The Biden Admin is the one In Charge of the Border. Thousands of Illegals are coming across right now. Probably 10 Million in the last 2 years. If you count the Get-Aways. As a Smart Man (Carlos Mencia) once said “They A’int Here to Do My Taxes”. They don’t speak English. This is what they are here for.. Build our Houses, Do Our Landscaping, Work Our Fields, Work at Meat-Packers, Work at Chicken-Farms, Work at Other Farms All Across Our Country. Even California. Yep California. That is what we use these People to Do. I am not on the Left and I am not on the RIght. I am in the Middle and I am just telling You like it is. Just the Facts. No SPin if you will. Most Smart People or People who are Honest Already Knew This. If you did not. Well, Now. Even You Figured it Out. Congradulations….. Now you know why someone like me with a 160 ish IQ Finds It Difficult to Talk To Someone Like You…..Not an Insult to any one person, Just those of you that did not know what we use the Illegal Immigrants for in Our Country………………Peace………..
They stoles my job.
Shut the dump down. 👍
WTF is this. Terrible. Smdh
I pray they do jail time.
This is why we need IMMIGRATION REFORM…there are plenty of adults from other countries that would do gratefully do this work!
Prosticute them!
Um open borders. Call Biden.
For generations people started working at 13 or 14.
Those poor people counted themselves blessed to have those jobs!
So they think it’s some type of human trafficking going on and they send back to their traffickers 🤔
Are they really pretending they don’t understand what happened?
Biden’s border policy.
CROOKED! PROBABLY BEEN GOING FOR DECADES
It’s like back in the the early 1900s over there
Which Jew is responsible this time lol
At least they aren’t afraid to work
Yeah sounds like they are. Absolutely unacceptable! I am sure that 50 children is a significant amount people the only logical solution is that is as the lady says. Take the youngest child and he is the one that can tell you the truth. As the rest will not. Make sure you are his friend and make it stay that way. Do not do anything that will show this child any kind of badness as he will not say a word to anyone again. Don’t throw any strange ideologies or any weird stuff into conversation with this child and make sure that two people that are actually authentic in loving children are the ones to be there. Thank you we have a good chance at doing good here if I am not to late.
Companies only care about profits. Laws and ethics be damned.
This is sad but let’s tell the truth families got bills to pay and they got to have food..there is a right way of doing things..ppl got to have homes and food.. what’s really sad is that born and raised America’s don’t want to work r kids today r in there phones all day not trying to work u can’t even get these kid to take out trash let a long work a job..let them work ,the need was there so they took it..
Wondering if the massive boarder issue is related to this. People come in illegal and getting jobs illegal. So let them in illegally and hold everyone responsible for giving them a job so they have some money. I think more than just the company is at fault here. Accountability goes all the way up to the top, Joe you have anything to add? JOE!!! You there? Why is there so many illegal employees, to many illegal aliens maybe 🤔
Goes back to 2016. Wow
sad
This is America this is the land of Slavery, this country is built on the bone and blood of Native American, African American built America, and Latinos are made to keep this country or will far apart in days. White people didn’t really build this country .
well, someones gotta do it
Disgusting! Shut them down!
NBC NEWS – STOP BRINGING US STUPID NEWS INSTEAD OF ALL THE CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS THAT OUR CORRUPT PRESIDENT HAS HIDDEN AND THAT ARE ALL NOW BEING FOUND EVERYWHERE. TELL US THE TRUTH AND STOP RE-DIRECTING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO NEWS THAT ARE NOT IMPORTANT. WE HAVE A BUNCH OF CORRUPT DEMOCRATIC POLITICIANS DOING ALL SORTS OF THINGS AND YOU ARE HIDING IT AND PROTECTING THEM FROM THE MONEY THAT THEY ARE GIVING YOU. WHAT A DISGRACE YOU ARE FOR AMERICA. WE WON’T FORGET YOUR TREASON TO OUR COUNTRY.
Human Trafficking is too prevalent and accepted by ALL of us. Not just the “greedy” corporations. Think about the last time you bought something from that non-english speaking fruit vendor, or your lawn guy, or your nail tech. Perhaps they were forced to do that for sub-par wages, working long hours in all kinds of unhealthy conditions. So point that accusing finger at yourselves, and if you see something suspicious, report it to your local authorities. Let’s all be part of the solution.
Yeah why else would we open up the boarder because we care or do you think its cheap labor. Hummmmm let me think. We have been stifling their governments since the 50s at least running the drugs then asking for more to fix the problem so im going with the child you know what slaves and cheap labor.
The world is a scary place people and nobody cares even a little because they dont know your alive same as you dont care about them
Kids are good lil workers. Why can’t they do the jobs nobody else wants to? They are wetbacks afterall.
Happens on China all the time, check your Nike or iPhones or your clothes. If you care for the children in these plants, care for all children around the world
I worked in a slaughter house rather than enter the school system….
JBS in Greeley Co. has illegal practices. Hear nothing good about this place, company.
Republicans be like “Go BaCK to yoUR coUnTRy” when they need other people to get the “low tier jobs done” 😂😂😂
We mock every other nation and we r rlly no different
jewish owned i bet. there i said it.
Hensley nothing shocks me anymore, we have came really far in this world really far in the gutter.
How tf does this happen in America?
This honestly is 4 years if not longer coming. I’m so glad I got out when I did. I made several reports on my own findings.
When they said children I thought younger than 13 but still yeah no.
Indict ALL Criminals!!
…shut down the entire operation, burn the whole product and asset inventory, charge, try and jail every manager and board member, strike to zero their pensions and benefits, completely destroy this and other child-labour exploiting, corporate perps…prejudicially…fails like this are unpardonable in this time, in this land!…punish them!…capitally!…
Child labor is prevalent in most industries in the US!!! Food production, agriculture, assembly and packing factories, restaurants, cleaning companies, and many others I’m sure
Joe biden’s open border policy working perfectly
Are these some of the kids that were kidnapped and separated from families at border by criminal trump administration?
It’s bigger then what we’re being told, who’s really involved!? the world will never know 🤷🏾♀️
Well it’s a republican owned business, so of course they were being trafficked.
Extremely disturbing.
hey americans! theres 50+ job openings.
They’ll just change the company name, and do it again. That’s what they did before. Their employees were always breaking Osha laws and labor guidelines, making it very unsafe to work around them as a mechanic.
obiden’ s illegals
Again?
There is nothing new under the sun… A little closer look in every place will reveal more such cases.
Corporate companies know what they’re doing come on…. pffttt
De Santis and Abbot probably sent them there in troves via tax payers bus money
Highly disturbing on multiple levels:
1) Hiring or “hiring” the kids in the first place
2) Having them work graveyard shifts (I presume that means night shifts which is highly detrimental to young people’s growing bodies due to lack of proper sleep)
3) Being around blood, raw meat and the sounds of slaughtering absolutely will have psychological effects on children. Normalizing blood and death at such young ages is highly disturbing
4) Potentially trafficked children being forced to work, taking advantage of the vulnerable
5) Is there even measures in place to protect these kids from predatory manipulation and harassment?
6) Working with heavy duty chemicals…and teens and tweens don’t mix. A- what negative health effects to non adult bodies B- teens and tweens often can get lazy and cut corners with jobs, especially if tired to begin with. You can’t get laxed with personal safety and food safety
The word is hire. These children are working because they all passed Everify and their parents told took them to a agency and gave them fraudulent documents to get work. Their parents should be deported and the agencies should be fined or lose their business license until they can get it right
Well what do expect from a meat packing plant? Theve always been wicked. Remember the jungle by Sinclair? You support this industry and the industrial animal agriculture, whenever you by meat.
PSSI?
I think the vowel is in the wrong position.
Boycott these companies now
50 rogue individuals?! And what were they giving them to stay awake during a graveyard shift?!
The dark side of Capitalism
2016?! Wth?! And her employer was never questioned?? We need more answers!!
Another trump state.
Someone shouldn’t be held accountable. EVERYBODY must be held accountable.
That’s what happen when we let our southern border wide open, thanks Joe.
Good kids these days are lazy. These kids are working. We need more kids working.
This is shameful!! I have some idea what’s up and Lord help those young ones
The meat industry is so disgusting!!! 🤢
This is not anything new 😒 😑 old news ……
Nothing new, y’all need to be checking every company. I’m sure it’s more
There are millions of illegal minors working in factories and on the fields.
Merica’
Send them to Kamala’s house
America is _going backward_ . It feels like what I would imagine the 1800s felt like, on so many fronts.
If theyre not going to do anything to PSSI why are they even investigating them. Corrupt mfers
The evil of the land has no end …
Aaaaaaand this is how food prices will shoot sky high … closing down pssi will definitely be a contributing factor in meat prices going up …
Thank every single democrat left wing open border crazy bc this is what there open border push is all about is to pack there businesses and homes with children that no one knows about that can just disappear and become there slaves for all kinds of reasons and money is just one little reason so let’s all thank the democrats and there demagogue rulers and there lie about labor shortages is bc there just replacing citizens with child labor and illegals they can pay next to nothing to make record profits and raise prices so millions can barely afford to eat to make there lies more believable so there’s a big picture to all of this and the democrat politicians are making all this possible for this to happen bc the money is just to good for them to turn it down and this goes on all across our country and they know exactly what is happening and no telling how many of these children are shipped out to other countries like live stock for many horrible reasons and people believe these companies that we trust with our foods care about the health and well being of people and children so this is just a drip in the bucket of what actually goes on and now you know how they could care less about people or who lives dies or suffers as long as they get there cash
Death penalty for those involved for sure.
#RepublicansAreNazis
I’ve delivered to many meat plants, it’s incredibly disgusting to even drive near one with the smell. I couldn’t imagine working in one, especially as a kid.
This is why we need to get rid of the immigration status. Give everyone citizenship.
That company is involved with the cartel they always hire kids they don’t care about nothing but getting the job done
Civil lawsuits should be filed on behalf of the children harmed while working for the corporations.
Biden’s non-existent border security policy at work.
This is not uncommon at all. Nearly every large company buys trafficked children to enslave, why else would they want open borders…Even the president has trafficked slaves.
America doesnt want to pay americans to live the american dream. They just want it all for themself so they dont care about others . This has been going on for a many years now.
Inflation
I can’t say for sure what this is but I will say that young people really don’t have a lot of rights considering they are second rate humans and treated with a certain level of oppression in ways. Then people wonder why they go through a rebellious phase or lash out or even indulge as adults. Kids want to grow up as adults because they desire true freedom. Now I’m not saying let them do as they please but as adults and parents we need to rethink how we treat them as members of society. Maybe they should be allowed to work under certain conditions of course and at their own free will. Just a thought.
If they mention an age, it will be the most extreme age, i bet you most were closer to 17 and just working to feed their families. I hope they will be treated with dignity. As all workers should be.
This is even more reason why I don’t eat meat