Over 100 minors found illegally employed cleaning slaughterhouses
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- Federal officials discovered that more than 100 minors were found working in meat packing facilities across the Midwest, many of them cleaning slaughterhouses with dangerous chemicals. The company that employed those children has now been forced to pay more than a million dollars in fees. NBC’s Julia Ainsley reports.
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$1.5 mil fine... if you or I did this we would lose our business and probably go to jail. The system is rigged.
I think the kids will get a lollipop for all their troubles, top shelf whiskey and cuban cigars for the bureaucratic sellouts who are welcoming HZBLA and PLA soldiers freely crossing the border by the thousands
Very rigged, BIG CORPORATIONS own the politicians, their just puppets, so us Americans have something to believe in, what a joke ha ha!
Who gets the fine money
Different laws based on how much money you have
The difference between you and this company is they lobby politicians and line their pockets, you don't so you're exposable. We need to end legal bribery in this country
$1.5 million in fines, cost of doing business. Savings on labor $10 million. Just business.
Same thing when they give you a Stop Work order on a home. It's a $500 fine if caught but that's cheaper than me hiring a contractor when I'm better than the contractor.
Go look at that comment America go look at that comment America see where you fit in at
So maybe Unions are not a bad thing. I mean who would like better pay, benefits a voice on the job for safety
Exactly. That’s why the government calls it a fine. They’re “fine” with profiting off this corruption as long as they get their cut. And no the 1.5M will not be going to the young exploited workers. It will be filling a wealthy politician’s pockets.
@@MrEvtmazda Unions have plusses and minuses. You mentioned some of the plusses. The minuses are that everything turns into a complex legal negotiation involving a complex labor contract. Also, the relationship between management and labor is often adversarial rather than co-operative, which can lead to things never getting done. As such, unions, like a lot of things in life, are a series of trade offs.
They knew exactly what they were doing.
Yeah, trying to put food on the table for their families back home.
@@TyrianHaze True, but they gotta be smarter than that. For them and their families.
@Spooky Boogie wow it's almost like they shouldn't even be here. But Liberals love their slave labor. Can't pump up the stock market and get cheap labor without exploiting illegal immigrants.
@@TyrianHaze yes but that doesn’t give anyone the right to exploit anyone like that come on you know they were for sure getting paid little and have zero Medicare so if they get hurt who’s going to help them then ?
@@cubanmissl3818 Where are the parents?
What are the odds that some politicians own stocks or shares in these companies? They complain about immigration but turn their heads when talking about THEIR 1040A.
The odds are 100% Best odds ever
Investments aren't on a 1040A form
100%… your not wrong
@@HH-le1vi I'm poor. I've never filed higher than a 1040A. But I may have to had your child in my classroom. Think about your priorities and how amazing you obviously are.
What are the odds the politicians benefiting from these abusive exploitations of illegal migrant workers are Democrats, since it's the Democratic Party who's position is that "having borders is racist".
Why don't people go to jail for things like this? It seems like all the individuals responsible for abuse get to hide behind the corporate name and evade any real punishment. A lot of times they actually work their way up.
Exactly. And it's cheaper for companies to use child and slave labor and just pay the fines than to have ethical practices.
When I was a factory supervisor, the plant manager would have gone to jail for this.
@@girlofanimation
How do we know it is slave labour and not just young people working. Some young people would love to have those jobs.
It's kind of like asking why this current administration doesn't aid more support on the border against the traffickers.
Capitalism that's why
Yep and how many of them are working the brothels? ,. Close the borders and fix this mess
That'll never happen this whole system is corrupt
Exactly. They are sitting here about kids doing respectable jobs to put food on the table, all the while ignoring the fact that there's kids being sexually trafficked into the country because of the open border policies that they support.(or just regular slavery)
Close the border, save the world!!!
The border isn't open. That is propaganda, or a gross exaggeration at best.
@@TyrianHaze Didn't DeSantis traffic minor asylum seekers a few months ago as a political stunt? I think he should be removed from office and formally charged.
The fine is just the cost of doing business. Even, Tyson posts ads in Mexico offering jobs for undocumented immigrants. We need to start criminally charging these companies.
tyson is vile. You can smell their factory in Md or wherever it is from about 5 miles out. Absolutely vile
My friend hired an illegal that worked on a fishing boat coast guard did a safety check ✔found out the person was illegal my friend got 10000 dollar 💵 fine plus they kept pulling him over he never hired an illegal again
But fining and cracking down on these companies that hire illegal aliens is racist. SMH.
@@joewilson6566 🤔 your comment is literally a lie. Thousands of immigrants get exploited for years and nobody even knows. I doubt your “buddy” got fined.
Fieldale Farms near me in Georgia hires illegals to, and has minors working for them. PSSI is working inside the plant to.
"Our company has a strict policy against hiring anyone over the age of 16."
so apple lmao
Yes, strictly enforced 102 times🙄
@@thewretchking4720 trying to be a smart a$$, and you're not even smart
@@redtaylor4936 exposed yourself for being pro child labor...
The over $1,500,000 should be paid to those under-aged children rather than to the government as fines!!!
Exactly. Company is fined and passes the costs on to the customers. Cherry on top is these kids(who are grown men and women as far as their families are concerned) are now out of a job, thereby taking away a source of income for their families.(probably sending money back home too)
It's kind of classic tbh. Certain Americans supporting illegal immigration, and suddenly they are surprised when a 13 year old illegal is working at a slaughter house because they make more in a day than their family makes back home in a week/month.
@danstanley644 it's a different time now
@Dan Stanley and the money they make is becoming worthless
@Dan Stanley ok boomer not all of us want to be government slaves
What is that 1.5 mill being used for? I love how they don’t just come out and tell you. Instead you have to jump through a bunch of hoops to find out.
My very first job at age 16 was working for a company that rented out those huge tents for big outdoor events. I made blueprints for them. My boss, son of the owner, was a terrible human being and his father was a day drinker. They paid a wealthy looking woman named Junia to supply them with workers and fake paperwork. Most of their employees were illegal; most from Ecuador, Brazil, or Eastern Europe. I vividly recall one day when I had nothing to work on and my boss took me to a job site. On the way we stopped at a building his family owned in town. The top two floors were housing where most of the illegal employees lived, the ground floor was a laundromat, and the partially exposed basement had a sewing shop. The shop had no windows and it was summer, very hot and muggy with the strong smell of adhesives and vinyl. In the shop was one boy, alone at a sewing machine, who was introduced as Domingo. I asked how old her was and my boss goes “Domingo! Sixteen años?” To which the boy just nodded. I quit that job not long after, as they owed me 11 weeks’ pay. The receptionist reached out to me a while later and asked if I wanted to be a part of a lawsuit that was being filed by the employees against the company. One of their key complaints was the treatment of Domingo, who was 12 and had allegedly been physically assaulted by my boss on several occasions. I gave a statement, but didn’t really have grounds to join the suit as I hadn’t been abused and they had paid me what they owed. The business is still operating, somehow.
Aww Capitalism! The greatest thing man has ever created am I right?... Am I?.. haha yeah that stuff is horrific and will continue with no consequences as long as we have capitalism. :/ Viva revolucione soon hopefully.
What was the company name?
Life in the Big City.
@MiniHunt, true. The thing about capitalism is that it needs a strong central government to rein it in and control it if it gets too big. Unfortunately, the US government is actually controlled by the wealthy so big business especially are given free rein, while small businesses may be over-regulated, and illegal businesses flourish because if goods are delivered cheaply then no one asks any questions.
@@minihunt4093 exactly! This is capitalism at its finest! An immoral system of child abuse and human exploitation.
Remove the tax break companies can use to claim penalties and settlements as business expenses.
.....they cant. Fines and Penalties are specifically non-deductible. Have you ever actually read the internal revenue code? cause your comment makes you sound super misinformed.....
Yes, let's do that instead of doing the easy thing like closing the southern border. 🙄
Look at that, turns the problem is the immigrants and not these companies and CEOs who don’t go to jail & just pay fines. The border is the problem huh? another one buying into the culture wars
The *grimmest* & most depressing headline in a while, innit
Nothing new. Last year they found out that factories in Alabama that make parts for Hyundai and Kia were using child labor
Having biden as president is always a depressing headline
@@nealcassady1189 do you mean their kids? you can legally let your children work for you if you solely own a business that isn't agriculture.
I like how a lot of Midwesterner complain about China stealing jobs when the richer among are the ones not hiring them in lieu of migrant minor.
Offshoring and such practices are cheaper - not necessarily ethical.
I like how people try to compare thousands of jobs sent overseas, for lower wages and taxes. To a story about 102 kids who chose to work someplace
Greed left unchecked will bring the whole system down around it.
The government needs to be much more heavy handed at enforcing rules and regulation on corporations if we are going to survive as a nation. (the world might be better off if we don't)
@@DoSe420 this is true these minors should not have been allowed to apply or be hired. There is a fish processing business in WA that hires mainly illegal immigrants and even after raids because they didn't have proper paperwork to be in USA / work, illegal immigrants would walk out during raids and then show up next day and work like nothing happened and they willingly agreed with this company to work and many included are illegal immigrant children. Companies and illegal immigrants are both liable for breaking labor laws but this has been going on for years they get away with it. They want to make it out like these children are victims but in many cases they are purposely and willfully applying and agreeing to work the hours. Which makes these children and illegal immigrants part of the problem when it comes to preventing this at these companies. Companies, parents of minors, illegal immigrants without proper paperwork including children needs to be held accountable for their actions in order to try to prevent this. It's sad all the way around.
@@sacredstarclairvoyantkat They shouldn't have been here in the first place. A certain subset of the American population supports open borders, and this is what you get when you support open borders. Don't understand why they act surprised when they support illegal immigrants pouring into the nation.
@@TyrianHaze I agree 100% we need to close the borders and stop illegal immigration and drugs pouring into USA. Stop companies from hiring illegal immigrants without proper paperwork as well. Hold both illegal immigrants and companies accountable.
This is why there are so many people actively looking and not finding anything. They are just resorting to migrant and child labor. In my state they made it legal for 14 yr olds to work an obscene amt of hours per week.
What state is that? I'd just like to research if it's true or if you're making a good sound bite.
@@leebomccool8997 jersey.
Iowa Republicans are literally in the process of trying to legalize this type of work (also mining, logging, etc) for minors, while also providing legal shielding for companies who end up with underage workers injured/killed on the job. The stated reason for this is that employers have a hard time finding workers. Soooo, let them hire children to do dangerous work for wages too low for any adult to accept? How is that the answer? Pro-life? Pro- protecting children? I think not.
@@nicked_fenyx they have a plethora of willing and able adults. Who need to support their families. But the whole pandemic sped up corp. Welfare and personhood stuff. So they can cut corner by hiring kids to work 3 days a wk 12 hr shifts. Or hire adults and SAY they will get ft and benefits. Then cut them within 90 days. And all they have to do is say you are not a "good fit". Now they are all crying they can't find "good" workers. Cause people would rather live in a tent than put up with that kind of hellscape.
@@nicked_fenyx Their supposed "concern" is for embryos.
Their agenda is removing civil rights for women, so that women have no rights that a high-status white man is bound to respect. Repubs are planning to set that same system up for a whole lotta people in the U.S.
How else are they supposed to pay the coyotes?
So they got fined approximately half the amount of money the kids made in one year working at these manufacturing places.
That’s why they do it.
and all those workers lost their jobs too. who gonna pay them now? oh yea, u
@@XPHALCON one of those locations is about 30 minutes from me.
@@XPHALCON they should be deported.
@neal cassady I did watch, did you?
There's a bunch of kids wanting to make money, then the government says they can't, and the place that was paying them is now paying the government in "fines".
*Again, watching this makes me feel so thankful to my dad and also to others who help us keep a 1-bedroom apt.* *I have some clothes & we usually have dinner leftovers for breakfast, but my dad works 2 jobs to make sure I am able to finish school and be healthy.*
What are you thanking the tax farm for?!? Enslaving your dad, and soon you?.. yeah, be grateful...
Suspicious
@@andretokayuk8100 atleast they can make more than from whatever country they are from, running water etc
Fakest comment I've ever seen on YT 😂
Wishing your family all the best❤
Omg, I heard about this a year ago I can't believe it's still ongoing.
It's been going on for many many years.
The fact y’all thinking a 14 or 15 year old working is a big deal shows how spoiled and entitled all of you were growing up.
We have been looking at UFO balloons
There are millions of stateless people globally that are not accounted for and are misused by other nations because of classifications as second-class citizens while other nations facing prosecution move here with full government coverage to start their lives. What do we the people stand for? Economic slavery is a crime against humanity. A country who doesn't learn from its past is bound to repeat it and justice cannot be destroyed or flattered.
Ibn Khaldun, father of economics and Islamic history said "Strong men make good times, good times make weak men, weak men make hard times, hard times makes strong men." 🇺🇲🇲🇦
May Mercy be in our nation and humility be in our hearts moving forward for the betterment of the whole. 💚🤝🏽 The brotherhood of humanity cannot be destroyed and faith in our humanity needs to be restored and replenished for future generations in our country and world. ✌🏽
I can’t believe they are Just reporting it mainstream.
We are so hypocrite about so many things that the criticism of other people, nations where this is going on...no not us!
@@swisstopia Honestly 🤯
@@swisstopia You know wtf he/she is saying.
I didn't catch if it was mentioned, but are the workers being underpaid ?
I’m curious why do you ask? Does it matter if they are underage and working in life threatening conditions?
@Blue Hydrangea Well if they are underpaid then it actually makes it worse because they are not being paid proportionately to the danger.
@@Blessed-2-b-a-Hembree Yes, it matters because it is another layer of abuse.
It's like asking "does it matter if the slave was paid 0 dollars? They are underage!"
So the concern is over 100 minors exposed to dangerous work conditions - what is the number of minors and what dangerous conditions have they been exposed to due to the open border policy. ?? The number is far greater the conditions are far worse yet nobody especially the news media is concerned about this. Furthermore, more than likely the open border policy made it easy for these minors to be put in this situation.
💯💯💯
That is my concern, the open border policy is used to bust unions and drive down wages. If you have a problem with that, you are xenophobic white trash that need to pull their bootstraps up harder.
My first job was age 11 working for a local farmer moving irrigation pipe in his fields. It was very hard work. My first week on the job, my arm was in a cast-which i had to wrap in plastic to keep the plaster from getting wet.
That was 45 years ago. I feel gratitude to the farmer who employed me. I didn't feel the job was abusive. I felt it gave me the chance to learn how to do hard things. I feel a large part of the workforce problem today is that young people have not learned these lessons by the time they reach working age.
While teenagers are minors, they shouldn't be equated to small children. They are capable of doing hard things. It is not necessarily abuse if they are working at hard jobs.
Are you kidding? You really think these kids should be grateful? The bottom line is that this is illegal. End of story.
I dont feel I was exploited. Young people are capable of doing more than we give them credit for. Its easy to pass judgement. That job let me earn the money to purchase an instrument that let me participate in band in Jr. High. Later I earned enough money to buy my first computer. It took me two years to do. It was a Comodore 64. Now I make my living as an IT manager. It would have been exploitation if I had not been given a choice. I chose to work as a way to open up opportunities for myself. My parents never could have afforded those things.
@@AmandaTitus85 I'm not saying they should be grateful. I was conveying my own experience.
I doubt the trafficking cartels share the same feelings about young migrant workers. Their only concern is substantial on time payments. Unfortunately for these youngsters and their families, they’ll be reminded. That’s not a joke
Americans boycotted companies for child labour being used in oversea factories. Let's see if they will do the same here.
Winnie the Pooh🎵
Winnie the Pooh🎶
Silly willy dilly old bear!
They dont have Trump to blame it on so no, they wont.
That’s not true. American companies are not worried about people or children in any country, us Americans buy over 20% of our products from China, where slave labor and slaves children are forcibly murdered by there government, do you think we are really worried about humanity??
@@scrawny2329 I wrote AMERICANS not American companies, brush up on your comprehension.
@@kaihuang4970 I wrote American companies AND Americans, so either or both! brush up on your comprehension!
In fact “we Americans” don’t boycott American companies that are getting fat on very unethical trade, and I would say because we are getting fat off of the slave labor the US companies are taping into. It’s like being fine with abortion because it comes in handy to “erase” our sin and make life all “normal” If we were worried about children we wouldn’t be killing them.
This another example of apathetic cruelty and exploitation of children, all to line someone's pockets, and don't let them tell you differently!
13 year olds were considered adults in most of the world for thousands of years. Stop infantilizing people.
@@TyrianHaze Welcome to the future buddy.
@@TyrianHaze pedo
do you care about the child labor used to make apple products?
Exploration of children have and will keep happening here in the USA for years At least those kids are working making some money 💰 at least they are not on the streets like some USA born kids selling drugs
Shut them down and put them in Jail
that fix has been on the table since the 1950's ... but the US Congress refuses to enact it.
Then we would not be eating
In Jai Courtney?
@@Asphyxia612 well tofu and soy is not good for you lol...most people like meat
Children are to be going to School. There are plenty of men looking for jobs, have men working in there not kids.
These kids will have a worse direct effect upon their mental health of working in a slaughter house of the blood, the smell of death, seeing and hearing the slaughter of domesticated animals, including the auctioned for slaughter and wild horses.
you are clueless
So Sad 😪 How can Adults be Protected at Work if even Our Children are Not being protected???
It's probably not 'Our' children. (Illegals)
"our children" - They were illegal aliens, that's how they got away with it for so long.
Your children aren't even protected at a hospital or school. If your kid wants to go behind your back and change their gender, they'll let them.
Adults should know how to protect themselves. That's the whole point of becoming an adult.
Yes yes
Where is the 1.5 million going, to those kids?!?!? or to the government. this country makes me a little sicker every day
im sure the kids are getting separate settlements in separate lawsuits, but its nice people care so much about the kids and I can tell your comment was about the kids and not spite towards the government.
No
Fines go to government
There's a local story here of a 14 yo girl being dropped off at Middle School in the morning after working through the night at a chicken processing plant 60 miles away. People started to notice because she was frequently late and seen being dropped off by a company van. It says Middle School right on the building, not College or University. There's no confusion on how old the kid is. This is child abuse at the very least and the parents or guardians are obviously in on it. The kids aren't kidnapped out of their houses each night. It's also not likely that this is the only thing horrible happening to these kids. Parents pimpin their kids out. It seems to be isolated to the immigrant community here. Everyone involved should do jail time. That's the only way to stop this.
I mean Florida is sending these kids to the Midwest and up north 🤷🏽♂️
Another distraction from Ohio! OR it’s an excuse to close the slaughter houses lol
@ObesePuppies you misspelled Biden.
@@ObesePuppies and? They didn't ask these illegals to be in their state. The people who claim want illegals here are getting them in their neighborhood. Funny how they didn't actually want them
Ha the elderly will need to work until death is basically what you are saying once Apon a time, we praised and valued youngster's hard work their bodies can take more stress and give them a good lesson in life.
Well they have to work off that debt they acquired to get here.
The proper term is CHILDREN not minors. Stop censoring the story nbc.
The term is criminals. They aren't victims.
Illegals is another correct term
@Delicious Chest Hair How racist can you be? Do you tell Latinos to eat tacos and blacks to eat watermelon?
@@alk3078An irrelevant one.
I wonder what it does to a young teen's brain after being exposed to animals being slaughtered and butchered? I mean long-term. What kind of damage would that do to a boy? Wasn't a horror movie based on that?
This is not a slaughter house you dope this is where they process clean and pack the meat every thing is already dead and skinned and this is not bad there being paid and there not forced it’s by choice thus teaching them the value of money and to be a hard worker but now they can sit at home scrolling the internet everyone is so sensitive these days
Their brains and other organs, and their family members brains will probably be made an example of what happens when the trafficking cartels stop getting paid. No movie , not a joke
Considering they're migrant children, it probably does nothing because they're not isolated westerners who think meat grows on trees...these kids probably saw their parents slaughtering their own meat, if not doing it themselves, before even coming here.
Nothing will happen. It's normal
Probably the same thing that went through their minds for hundreds of thousands/millions of years while being taught by their parents how to properly slaughter an animal to feed their family.
My grandpa Eluterio came from Mexico at 14 and started working on a farm. He said he was grateful for the job because he was able to get his citizenship and start a family in this country.
These are the people that break our laws that need to be removed from our country their families they start here illegal need to be shipped out of the country all of them
Back in those days, a 14 year old immigrant was probably considered a man. Now we baby men until their 30s.
Yeah some immigrants will join the military to get citizenship...
Did you did work at 14 if not why ???. or did you miss the point???
@@danielmota1095 I began working as a stock boy at 14. Now, I am a retired college professor.
"There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin, but the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain."
~ James Baldwin (1924-1987), American essayist, novelist, playwright, and social critic.
Excerpted from "Giovanni's Room"
Meanwhile illegal aliens are contemptuous of the struggles of American taxpayers and employees.
THAT’S WHAT THE SPY BALLOON WAS LOOKING FOR
😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣 😂 😹 cough choke spit
plot twist!11!!
DO SOMETHING. WE KNOW, WE INVESTIGATE, WE REPORT, AND THEN DO NOTHING. SHUT THEM DOWN FOR A MONTH!!IT WILL 🛑. BUT DO DO NOTHING, THAT IS ON US.
Shut them down for good and fine the slaughter houses!
Ya shut all slaughter houses down, and all farmers, and that would end all this dangerous work that is being forced on all of us. We should be able to sit and play video games all day and have our lunch funded by the government!!!…..oh wait….there will be no lunch if we shut down the slaughter houses, let me think……
@@scrawny2329 ya I don't see Americans getting in line to work as a butcher.
We need to deport! They have Id that they use. Someone got in there and started investigating and rolled on these businesses.
Their families are aware and complicit. They don't care about our laws coming here and don't care about them while they are here.
Departing them should be the first penalty. They aren't us citizens they don't belong to us.
CAPS LOCK
Even for America this is a new low.
America has been doing this forever, even in clothing places that makes clothes
What a funny way to say old low.
@Jannett Snow well this might be the new normal if Republican lawmakers in Iowa and a few other states are trying to make child labor legal in 3 of the most dangerous jobs in the country and this is one of them along with logging and the one I can't remember . And the law would make it so the company's are free from liability and lawsuits when it inevitably goes wrong.
More like an old low. This used to be legal and common in America.
Oh, IKR. Poor guys got jobs and went to school on our dime, then get to be victims after using fake ideas to take work from actual citizens. Shame on us. These kids should be deported.
Please stay on this story!
They won’t.
Ballon has entered the chat.
I remember read The Jungle and thinking how did people think it was ok to allow just inhumane conditions? Now I read the comments and I can definitely see it happening. I don’t eat meant but if I did , I would not trust some child to know how to avoid contamination and the company to not cut corners in other ways. Make sure you cook your meat very well.
Veggies aren't much better, especially in bulk and organic. Often, mold is simply scooped out and the contaminated area just mixed in with the rest. Molds making poisons and carcinogens end up in food, especially "organic" because they want to make money and mold is "all-natural", too, of course.
You’ve never worked in a factory huh half these people are hired through a staffing service there not trained and it’s not hard cleaning the equipment you break it down and take it to a wash room
Abusive industry period.
Get a grip on yourself.🤡
@@Kevin-he8ue 🤡
Lock up all involved
For what? In todays economy we should be glad they have jobs.
@XPHALCON this is why kids grow up like they do I got a job when I was 13 doing masonry
How you mistaken 13 years old kids for adults?
Right...
Instead of paying $1.5M in fines to the govt, that money should be given to the families of those children. Those children were horribly exploited and probably suffered workplace injuries that were swept under the rug. Everyone involved in hiring these kids should be jailed and/or sued into oblivion.
“We don’t need government regulations, companies will regulate themselves”
They all just want a better life, they should help these children.
They should deport them.
Buy them a bus ticket home south of the border
@Delicious Chest Hair THATS FACTS
The USA is an overflowing lifeboat, there are only so many people that can be helped.
What do you expect with a WIDE OPEN border? They gotta work somewhere to pay off the Human Traffickers that smuggled them across the border.
Yeah because it’s their fault 🙄 don’t hold the company accountable!!! Unbelievable
@@Lolokfam if the Border wasn't WIDE open and they had no reason to come here or pay exorbitant fees to human smugglers to get here. This wouldn't have happened. How bout you hold our government accountable.
Where is AOC clutching her pearls and fake crying while holding a fence?
I worked since i was 9 when i started working in the fields.It is the reason i strived to become an educated individual. I can honestly say that was the best time of my life. The rules were not strict back then. I hope all these agencies and people that have an opinion of working to help your family do something about and help these kids and there families and not just have an opinion.
Amen to that.
Fines are not enough to prevent this.
You know what could have prevented this? Enforcing border laws.
@@TyrianHaze Spoken like some politically obessed bot with a talikg point. This happened because of coprerate lobbying, nothing Doesn't matter where the labor came from, the corp got to do it because they paid to do so. THAT'S THE ISSUE
@@getagrip964 This happened because of you supporting open borders.
If you want to really stop this abuse then arrest corporate officials on tv
That'd be like China, this is a free capitalism country.
No, we have a Federal Democratic Republic. So you are saying people who break laws shouldn’t be locked up because they are capitalist? Read much?
@@MrFboyle it's sarcasm, I'm on your sidey friend...
@@jaymarx I apologize
That’s really messed up.
The "kids" identify as 21.. what's the problem?
PSSI will pay the fine, charge the slaughterhouses more for the fines. The slaughterhouses will charge processed food manufacturers more, the processed food manufacturers pass the costs to the customer.
Or the fines will be appealed in exchange for keeping the costs of processed food low.
They say the new generation doesn't want to work.... or maybe somebody just doesn't want them to work.
When I was 13yo I was roofing Making 15 an hour and had dropped out of school because I couldn't do both... some of us have to work no matter how young
How sad!!! The people responsible need to be locked up forever!
so apple should also be locked up then for the sweatshops they run in china?
👏 that’s child endangerment
Kids should only have to worry about 1 thing, and that is to study hard and get good grades. No distractions, period!
Lmao no. We need to ship those kids back so that OUR kids can be cleaning and working. This is a great first job, no idea why people are mad other than the fact that they're taking jobs from OUR kids
The world does not, nor has it ever worked according to the way things "should" be.
Sometimes, the difference between a family fallen on hard times being able to eat is their kid stepping up when needed.
So much human suffering is caused by third parties inserting themselves into a situation, believing themselves morally superior, not taking into account the dichotomy of the way things "should be" contrasted against the way "things are" in reality.
kids should be in their own country
@@SeanWinters are you kidding? These worthless kids today are too busy smoking weed to even do a decent job at the burger king
@SeanWinters A man who needs his kids to work to pay his bills hasn't done what he needed to do when he was young. And his kids will end up in the same predicament.
Keep the borders open….. that is what caused it.
It's bad because they're kids. It's bad because it shouldn't be dangerous for anyone. It's bad because you're trusting a 13 year old to keep your meet sanitary.
meat*
I was 15 when I started working legally and 13 when I started with my uncles construction
Me too. I'm a 61 year old, powerfully built white construction hombre!
The regimes that drive up minimum wages pressures companies into child labor.
That’s unacceptable. Especially for a company of this size. They’re handling our food and putting Americans at risk.
Are you really saying that higher demands for wages is the issue? Wonder what yearly salaries look like for higher ups.
If someone would bother to destroy the pre$$, wages wouldn't have to go up to keep up with everything, but we can't have that.
Raising wages makes companies break child labor laws? This is an excuse to keep wages low that I've never heard before. Nice.
How do you explain the numerous child labor law violations that have occurred over the last 4 decades when wages for the bottom 90% of earners have been basically stagnant relative to inflation though?
can they put that on their resumes?
Ive worked at a iowa pork plant for 12 years and have not seen a single minor working on pssi, they are such a good company here.
They may have chalk in their hair.
0:31 shows only 5 in your local plant... makes sense,no? that you haven't seen a few in a sea of workers.
You must judge the company in its entirety.
It's a typical liberal Democrat issue. Mabey why we need closed borders and control over who enters
I worked in a West Virginia mine for 5 years and everyone there was a miner.
@@jamessaunders1926 it has never and will never work,building a border wall,i mean. especially when the gate keepers open the border when citizen get too high in class to do hard labor..
So now a days no one wants to work even when you pay them 17 an hour but this company should have people going to jail
This is absolutely disgusting! These kids need to be in school. My oldest son is 12, this is just sad.
need to be back in their country
@@victorhopper6774 You first colonist
I wonder if that is a possibility for some of these families?
Remember, "having borders is racist" right? This is one of the consequences of having an open border along the border with Mexico, where up to a million illegal immigrants cross over per year and just disappear into the country.
Lmao typical trumper government bootlicker. Blame the child and the border not the corporate shill that hired the cheap labor and screwed a hard working american out of a wage.
Who said having borders is racist? Please link a video or a website quoting specific people saying this.
The supervisors were trying save the managers a quick buck. Because if actually citizens had that job they need to get paid right and way more benefits so in the end the company was just trying save money. SHAME
Lololol you dummy. We don't even pay our own citizens right.
@@brentoncarter4275 I was actually speaking up for the dummy like u who too stubborn to take action for your pay smh 🤦♂️ broke as boy
@@jeidenrodriguez1228 lol I'm salaried and tenured and have union protection. You misunderstand. You said "if actually (lol) citizens had that job they need to get paid right..." WELP WE DONT PAY OUR OWN CITIZENS RIGHT EITHER. Benefits??? Hahahahaha the majority of Americans have no benefits wheatsoever. And it's for the same reason that the CEOs of this company have been able to do these illegal things for so long and they probably won't be held accountable now either.
Uhhh... when I was a minor, I was also working??? 🤔
In a slaughterhouse around dangerous equipment and chemicals?
i mean I worked in a restaurant when I was 14 washing dishes or doing landscaping but I was never put in a dangerous environment like this. Would the military be acceptable to kids? There has to be a limit somewhere...
Their are so many job post wanting have minors
Well, hundreds of thousands of these people come in the country illegally and are allowed to be dumped in small towns. This is just an example of how some of them are finding work. This surprises people?
I hope they arrested those rapscallions and left the bosses and corporation be. Corporations are people too, It's not their fault that they knew what they were doing.
And I bet the Co.s anti-union budget is over 7 figures too.
Start criminal charges against company executives and the children's parents! I guarantee this would solve the problem. Too bad nothing will happen!
The CEOs have far more culpability in this matter dum dum.
Secure the border; illegals are given social security numbers in CA
@Brenton Carter You can not have parents sending their kids to work rather than school. Both are equal. Dumb dumb.
It’s crazy I worked for this company from 2017 to 2020 hiring for them in the northeast division and corporate was so strict with us over everything even a slight mistake but when it came to the Midwest they looked the other way!
That's quite interesting. Tougher state enforcement?
I hope you got a better job; go back to school if necessary.
How about not hiring illegals period. Heavily fine PSSI & close doors.
1000$ fine and a note saying they'll never do it a tenth time. Next case!
Inflation is so bad children have to go to work to help provide for their families now.
What do you expect when an administration allows thousands upon thousands into this country undocumented? People coming into this country without ANY legal documentation, birth certificates, PASSPORTS…? These migrants are cheap labor and THIS administration is to blame. What are these people expected to do to earn a living when we have our own unemployed? Many are grateful to be here and will do nearly anything to earn a living.
The real problem is people that don't pay any attention to what's been going on for decades, and when a news story breaks they don't bother to look any further than "who is the current president, and is he in my party or the other one?"
This story goes so much deeper than presidential politics, but your cult will make fun of you for being "too woke" if you bother to look at anything past the end of the finger that you're pointing.
Scarface. He'd do ANYTHING 🤡
They have to send documents on an employee's immigration status to the department of labor when they hire someone... Unless they didn't. The company was in on it all the way up through through top management otherwise they wouldn't have been on the payroll.
I'm sure no one is on the payroll
Midwest person here......the problem is the illegal immigration of young people that are living in these communities.
I worked at a slaughter house in Wisconsin 30+ years ago. 3/4 of the workers were illegal. One day I came in and we were only at 1/4 staff with not a single illegal in sight. Some sort of walk through inspection took place and after lunch we were back at full staff. Lol
wow. did the inspectors not notice that there were barely any employees? couldn't have been enough to safely run the place
1.5 million to the government. What about the U.S. residents that couldn't get a job there because the company would rather hire illegal immigrants
Why do you think they had to hire them kids? Because grown men that are white in America don't want to work dirty Jobs like that it's only minorities that work dirty Jobs like you can have your meat on your table.
They hire immigrants because we won't work these horrible jobs. There is no amount of money u could pay me to get me to clean a slaughterhouse. I would much rather work elsewhere.
@bubble jim maybe the people you know.
Also, illegal immigrants don't have access to American public schools. Schools verify immigration documents BEFORE they allow u in class. Or, at least they are supposed to.
If you had hungry kids, you would work there
It is a regular thing to have 14 year olds working the overnight in the US. I started in a denny's restaruant and the manager falsified my SCHOOL ID to (because i was too young to get a drivers license) make me appear 18. Nothing will be done.
Don't act like you were being forced into the job. Your manager did you a favor.
Also wtf do you expect when gas prices are 5$ a gallon and millions of families are having to choose to either pay bills or put food on their tables.
They expect for the federal government to refuse to enforce border laws, for American citizens to stop crying about losing their jobs to illegals, and for these kids to start working in the streets now that they are out of a job.
Simple, destroy the pre$$ so that each USD has consistent value that can't be inflated.
Unbelievable. Unacceptable. What a joke of a fine
Hard to believe that this happened.... Grocery stores don't allow minors to use knives or operate machines like meat grinders, deli slicers and cardboard balers.
They were cleaning equipment, not operating them.Please tell the world you are not really a pharmacist...
A supporter of child labor
@@briansmith2849 As if that matters. America doesn't need child labor, bot
@@briansmith2849 Pharmacists are far from geniuses; my PhD is in mathematical physics.
Have they check postville Iowa yet?
That’s taking away little children desperately needed to be lowered down 500’ holes to retrieve the vital cobalt for left wing electric vehicle mandates!
This is the America that this disgraceful administration wants! Vote!
Immigration law not important? Child labor law important?
Who keeps the money from the fine?
the government so they can spend money recklessly on stupid programs
Well, better Border Security and enforcement of our Immigration laws would solve a lot of this. But you know that's logical so...oh well.
Illegal immigration should actually be illegal.
More Audits need it
This is really not a surprise.. at my old job I had teens coming in for second shift.. with their Catholic outfits on.. of course my supervisor knew about it.
She told them that was not allowed.. their uniforms...I know they worked past one or two in the morning. Had to go to school the next day.. happens all over I'm sure
1.5 million in fines isn’t the solution. They need to criminally charge individuals responsible, and hold the CEO accountable.
This company needs to pay for damages and corruption 3.8 Billions not 1 million.
They figure if Biden is going to let them come here unabated,why not put them to good use?
Thanks for sharing 🙏🏾
Prayers out for those young individuals 🕊️
Guess they're better off broke and hungry
Are you dense? These kids are hired they apply for the job and they make a check weekly and it teaches them the worth of money and working hard pays off now they can sit at home on the PlayStation and phone scrolling tik tok
I've done this job. It's brutal, it's back breaking and the the time I accidentally got cleaner on my arm, where a tattoo is, it burned so deep it stripped the ink out. This is unacceptable.
I don't see any of yall complaining about your iPhone being made by kids
Lock'em up. What a joke $1m fine for billion dollar company
Did anyone ask the TEENS if they wanted to work there? I was really proud of myself when I got a job at 14 working at a hog production facility. As long as they are making a fair wage I don't see what the problem is, open border is only going to amplify there problem. The million + illegal ppl need to eat to
im out here at 14 mowing lawns.
nebraska does't consider people adults till 19 years of age and they were the worst offenders.
child labor is still frowned upon for a reason
I don't see anything wrong with kids working. You've got plenty of education by age 13 so it's time to get a head start on the future bank account. The government doesn't want kids making money as they may get rich by their 30's
Do you always make ridiculous comments? Are you a troll trying to get a rise out of people or just a Republican?
True. We went from being considered adults at 12, to being babied until our 30s so corporations and the government can feed us with nonstop propaganda while squeezing us for everything we are worth.
"Please, try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity."
~ James Baldwin (American essayist, novelist, playwright, and social critic "A Letter to My Nephew"