Duvan Tomas Perez, 16, was killed when he was pulled into a piece of machinery he was cleaning at Mississippi’s Mar-Jac Poultry. NBC’s Julia Ainsley reports.
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left on? SUS
Eat the bugs…says the bald hooknose edomite Schwab!
what’re your pronouns chubs?
The illegals will be used by the criminal biden regime as slaves.
Wrong, they’re being used by rethugs. Facts.
@You Tried It The libtard says what?
This is the political party that keeps telling us to ‘think of the children’.
is that the same party that wants to allow children to cut their genitals off?
@Francis Marion No, it’s the Republicans.
@You Tried It The GOP is the party that keeps telling us “think of the fetuses.” Once they’re children, not so much.
Remember the tRump administration allowed speeds of up to 10x faster for poultry processing because they bowed down to corporations!
These young men need and want to work for various reasons. We also need these willing,hard workers. Let them work.
With safety
The immigration reform that never crosses the desk of any Democrat or Republican House Speaker or Senate leader.
The illegal was breaking the law. Now the Media wants to make it the company’s fault.
OH, LORD…THAT IS SO SAD.
Slavery prevails. That is how America became rich.
Democrats love the low wage workers. Look at how they hate Florida for ending the practice.
Slavery is much different from child labor.
@Taylor Hession Watch your news. Search for the whistleblower that revealed what happens to smuggled migrant children. Sent to work all over the US.
@Francis Marion Excuse you, that’s the Repugs. They’re rolling back child labor laws.
Why isn’t everyone up in arms about the millions of other 16 year olds working in this country? I worked in chicken hatchery at the age of 15 on a work permit. Nobody was on television expressing their grief over my employment. Nobody whined about me suffering from slavery while working from the age of 15 to 18 years old.
Horrific! Age 16 working with those machines. 🙏
He was here illegally had fake I.D. that said he was 18.
Sure. They all do. And All these big companies knowingly hire immigrant children to clean the small parts in the machinery. Everyone who works there knows. Don’t let them lie any more.
Replacement needs replaced
Who’s eating all the chicken
OSHA has clear regulations to prevent this from happening.
Democrats want them to do these jobs? Slave labor. Sickening.
Bet its Republican owned.🤔🐩
Get your facts right. It’s the Repugs that are rolling back child labor laws, NOT the Democrats.
💔🙏
In Mississippi they will let you work at 13. They dont care about child labor laws
One of impact from open border.
It’s their land anyway
They have layers and layers of deniability. And the government allows it. We need an E-verify system that requires all employers to verify on a national database system whether someone is eligible to work and their age. And yes double verify contract workers. But corporate bribery money doesn’t allow anything that would hinder them. Just another dead slave labor for them. He’s already replaced.
Democrats are against e-verify. Look how much they hate Florida for using it.
That won’t work. Don’t you watch the news? The whistleblower who said that the smuggled children are sent all over the US to do labor.
@Francis Marion And Rethuglicans are against poor children being allowed to be children, they want them working. That’s why they’re rolling back child labor protections.
Yeah thats just what I want as an American citizen more of my info dumped into a data base.
Remember that John OLiver report about CONservatives deregulating these meat plants so much INSPECTORS ARE REQUIRED TO PUT BOXES ON THEIR HEADS? Lol SKY WORSHIPPERS ARE LITERALLY COMIC BOOK VILLAINS. Although few comic books talk about grinding kids into meat paste
If it was China they would have been 10 years old. And they wouldn’t have even reported it. They would have put them in the chicken chow mein.
Illegal immigration is a multi billion dollar industry. It’s a business 💸.
Shout out that young man. A young king 🤴
How terrible! I’ve been inside several of these chicken plants, and it’s definitely not a place for children. I can only imagine what unspeakable horror befell him there. And to think, if only his parents had just stayed south of the U.S. border, he’d be alive and doing teenage things right now instead of dying as a child laborer in a stinking chicken plant.
And to think, if only Repugs weren’t rolling back child labor laws all over this country, he’d be alive and doing teenage things right now instead of what happened to him. Fixed that for you.
Imagine if we didn’t have Rs in charge, eliminating child labor laws so minors can work in dangerous facilities! Imagine if we didn’t have Rs passing laws to get kids to work, instead of raising min wage! Imagine if Rs also weren’t slashing health, safety and labor prorections. Imagine such a world !
@Aeroldoth3 I know! And let’s not forget the Ds, who are throwing open the borders and allowing them across in such huge numbers that it can only get worse. 🙄
@Ralph Cantrell So true ! All those billions of dollars on border security, while somehow having 100% open borders.
It’s almost like Rs are lying about there being open borders, to fear-monger amongst their base. It’s almost like the billions already allocated each year didn’t stop Rs from lying about it, and when Ds allocated billions more, the Rs STILL kept claiming the borders were fully open.
It’s almost like R voters get all riled up over issues that don’t affect them in the slightest, just because far right media TOLD them to be upset!!
No, he wouldnt. Almost half of the people in Guatemala live in extreme poverty. He and his family came to the U.S. in search of a better life. What they found instead was greed, corruption, and a tragic end. May he rest in peace. 🙏
Omg..just how she described it is just..speechless. These companies need to be investigated and raided asap, just one death can lead to more. Child labor laws are ILLEGAL period and the Republicans are to blame for this for allowing it to happen. Hope his family sues the company and government in the state for allowing children to work at dangerous companies like this.
💯% facts. That’s why you see repugs trying to roll back child labor protection laws all over this country. They know adults in large numbers won’t do these jobs, so they’re trying to make children do them.
It’s incredibly sad how much dose 16 year old make doing sanitation work at a poultry plant ?
Horrifying injury. You cannot blame the staffing agency. Regardless of his hire was he safety trained? Are OSHA standards being followed? Was this preventable?
Did you really just say that, duhhh he was under age working illegally.
OSHA about to shut this place down if there was little to know Ppe used or wasn’t properly used.
Age is separate matter. He did not get killed because of his age, he got killed due to an unsafe action and/or environment. @Cheryl Brantley
Thats why they should stay in their own country. It is sad but oh well.
So, an American kid should have died? I think there’s another answer here.
Close the border. If it saves just one life…………
American jobs for Americans
If Americans would do these jobs, they will not hire illegals. That’s one of the main problems. That’s why so many companies and jobs are transferred overseas.
Southeners: “KEEP IMMIGRANTS OUT OF OUR COUNTRY” Also southerners: *Hires almost entirely immigrants to run their agricultural economies*
Of course
Children should NEVER work in factories
He wasn’t actually a “child”.
Most All kids get their first job at the age 16, along with their first drivers license.
It’s very sad what happened to him yes, but he wasn’t a child.
I would like to know if he spoke English and understood his training.
And/or how well and how long was his training,
to perform the job.
@Tammy Ortona minor in the US is still considered a child.
@Seth W.
Yes, he is under 18 years of age….. However, over the past few years I’ve noticed those reporting the news, have changed their wording for older minors.
In times past, they used the word “juvenile”, referring to those in their teens. Not the word “child”.
Maybe the Spirit inside reporters, are trying to make the one inside each of us AWARE,
Its THE Beast hurting the “children” of God…… And THEY WILL pay For Each pain and suffering THEY put us through.
Do unto others, how YOU want to be done!!!!…….
AND
When the “Flesh and Bones” are gone, THEY have NO protection.
So, in this case….. We realize……
the Beast that WAS inside this boy, is cast into outer darkness, going through all that HE put this boy through.
Why are those machines so dangerous. I blame the engineers he could of been 50 don’t matter when your working in those conditions. Jesus.
The question no one is asking.
Automate that.
*COME HERE LEGALLY OR STAY OUT*
JUST ANOTHER REASON WHY
They need to make these machines safer, operate safer, and USE ADULT LABOR
But it cost money. They can’t afford that. But for real. Very sad and things need to change.
He used fake papers just like how he came here illegally. No loss really, he got what he deserved.
We don’t use child labor.
Why aren’t those two dumb broads b*tching about the millions of other 16 year olds working in this country? It’s not a violation for a 16 year old American to be employed, but it’s a violation of child labor laws for this particular 16 year old to be employed because he’s from another country? It’ not slave labor to employ an American minor, but it is if they happen to be from another country? And why are they blaming the factory for the minor lying to them about his age?
If Trump was president he would still be alive
This child looked like a child, not a 32 yr old man.
literal chicken fingers
for real though, super tragic
Illegals often work under horrid conditions.
Well done as always libs.
I’ve been working since I’m sixteen, you people are making our teens soft, accidents happen to all age groups
I do believe this is horrid!
However,
Most 16 Year olds in America recieve their First drivers licesens
and
are opporating a vehicle on our Freeways.
He is not American an Illegal from Guatemala, and the days of 16 and getting license is over since they stopped offering Drivers training and Drivers Ed in High School.
@Cheryl Brantley
Did he not have a work permit?
This video states he had the proper paperwork, although he stated he was older than 16.
Also, concerning drivers license…..
You are able to get a license at the age of 16 regardless of what any school district offers.
You have to have a certain number of hours, driving with an adult.
And then you have to pass the written and driving test at the DPS.
@Tammy Orton Yes you can, but the average age at least in the state I am in is no longer 16. I know 18 and older not having their license.
@Tammy Orton So how can he have the proper paperwork if it was fraudulent.
@Cheryl Brantley
Well, I live in Texas, and you’re still able to get your license at 16, IF you have went through the proper steps.
How ever as soon as your child gets their permit….. They are added to the parents auto insurance. That could be the reason for some waiting.
Also it is the news report stating he had the correct paperwork.
HE filled it out wrong by lying about his age, but it was still the correct paper work.
Im wondering IF the company had a required age, to run that particular machine…..
It’s just horrid to think about.
This is why the right hates abortion… they want them in dangerous jobs like this.
Fetuses are protected by the state of Mississippi. Children? Not so much.
Wow. Maybe he should have stayed in Guatemala.
This is so terribly terribly awful!
Sad that ByeDen says
there are no illegal migrants in the United States.
The border is secure says ByeDen.
ByeDen says there is no human trafficking.
All is fine says ByeDen.
ByeDen says America needs workers.
All is fine says ByeDen.
Reporter to ByeDen: “Mr.President,
what do you have to say about the teen?”
“Nothing.
We have lots of job openings.
Best years ever for job seekers.”
Then walks away.
So, in other words you care less about a dead brown child than you do about ‘getting’ another political party. Gotcha.
Bidens union needs kid workers
That’s horrible!
🥀🕊️RIP🕊️🥀
Sounds like he was murdered
They certainly didn’t follow procedure: https://youtu.be/GUJ4vI-JA88
It is always a tragedy when someone dies in a preventable death.
No, these are illegals despetate to be in this country and wanting a job, he had fake papers showing he was older. Very sad but it is not the fault of the company or staffing agent. So now what you’re going to grant the family in Guatamala millions of dollars an amnesty to come to the U.S.
If they didn’t know, it was willful ignorance.
Maybe if they pay able adults a decent wage. They would have tragic stories like this. I call BS on the excuse “i didn’t know he was a minor”.
All these big companies knowingly hire immigrant children to clean the small parts in the machinery. Everyone who works there knows. Don’t let them lie any more.
Hey!!!! These companies keep on saying they don’t know the age of the children working. Not long ago several children, under 16, were found working graveyard shift with chemicals. They hired kids that obviously looked like children. 🤬🤬🤬🤬 Are these companies in cahoots with the smugglers? Are they turning a blind eye????
There’s absolutely no hope left in this world at all!
My son is a 16 year old Guatemalan
This makes me feel so sick to my stomach.
That poor kid.
Out there trying to make money and be independent.
This place only wants warm bodies to get the job done.
They do not care at all about their employees.
This kid told them he was 32 and he was 16 They believed him?
They just didn’t care.🤮🤮
I love my little Zacky.
I got him a job in a hospital where I know he’s safe.
Naw it’s his fault. 16 is old enough to know. 16 year olds are legally allowed to drive and a automobile is also a dangerous machine.
Unions would stop this and using illegals that use fake papers!
Why a 16 year old? It’s all about the money. Those jobs are harsh, backbraking, dangerous, dirty jobs that no one wants. Pay more and the workers will come. The downside? Chicken will cost more but it will be the true cost. No more being subsidized by cheap migrant labor.
There are millions of 16 year olds working in this country. Contrary to what those two idiots at NBC want people to believe, employing a 16-year-old does not violate child labor laws, nor does it equate to child slavery.
How does this happen? Serious : what exactly happend?
Shut it down NOW!!
Stop illegal immigration!
got black folk unemployed but you hire minors, they knew cause greed says it all. they knew they knew they knew his age😂
Since when has it been illegal to hire a minor in the United States? I worked in a chicken factory at the age of 15 with a work permit. At the age of 16, I worked at a fast-food restaurant until I went off to college at the age of eighteen. The illegal alien lied about his age, so NBC News had no business putting any blame on the factory regarding his age. NBC News had no business smearing the reputation of the company over this accident.
These dummies at NBC News want you to believe that it’s against the law and a terrible thing to employ a 16-year-old. And how disgusting to portray the factory as being at fault for employing a 16-year-old when the illegal alien was the one who lied to the company about his age. NBC News puts out lies and propaganda, not trustworthy news.