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Four Mexican citizens were arrested in connection with the deaths of 53 migrants found abandoned last year inside a tractor-trailer in the scorching heat in San Antonio, Texas, federal prosecutors said Tuesday, the one-year anniversary of the shocking discovery. The Justice Department said the suspects knew the trailer’s air-conditioning unit was malfunctioning and would not…
Editor’s note: We are non-partisan. Children are being hurt. Please, watch, read, learn, and act accordingly. Hearing Date: Wednesday 04/26/2023 – 3:00 PM Hearing Location: 2141 Rayburn House Office Building The hearing, “The Biden Border Crisis: Exploitation of Unaccompanied Alien Children,” will examine the unprecedented surge of unaccompanied alien children at the southwest border and…
Slavery is often associated with the South. A new book shifts the narrative West. “California, a Slave State,” details 250 years of slavery and slave revolts in California. KPBS reporter Katie Hyson spoke with the book’s author, Jean Pfaelzer, a public historian and University of Delaware professor, about slavery throughout the state’s history, and how…
The Biden administration released 344 unaccompanied migrant children to live with nonfamily sponsors hosting three or more unaccompanied kids, says a new Health and Human Services Department audit, raising questions among advocates who worry that some minors are being sponsored by strangers who could exploit them for child labor. The audit, conducted by the agency’s Office…
The Biden administration released 344 unaccompanied migrant children to live with nonfamily sponsors who are already hosting at least two other children, says a new Health and Human Services Department audit, raising questions among advocates who worry that some minors are being sponsored by strangers who could exploit them for child labor. The audit, conducted by…
In the U.S., it is legal for children as young as 12 to work unlimited hours outside of school with parental approval if they’re working in agriculture. There are currently around 500,000 children who work in agriculture, planting, picking, and packaging crops. Even children protected by the American Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) are at…
When Guatemalan immigrant Jose Velasquez was 13, he began spending his summers working alongside his mother in North Carolina’s tobacco fields. “I worked 10 to 12 hours a day, five days a week in the Goldsboro area,” he told Truthout. “I had to get up at 4:30 am. A rusty van would come by, cram…
Thursday, May 11, 2023 3:19AM HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — In northwest Harris County, seven Guatemalan migrants who were hungry, bruised, and held against their will have been freed. Investigators said smugglers called “coyotes” were holding them captive until relatives or friends could pay for their release. Now, the Harris County Sheriff’s Office is heating…
Two Aurora residents have been sentenced to 6½ years in prison by a federal judge in Chicago for child labor trafficking. Santos Teodoro Ac-Salazar, 27, and Olga Choc Laj, 34, who are Guatemalan nationals, admitted they entered the United States unlawfully with two children, ages 10 and 15, who were not their own, according to…
In the spring of 2021, Linda Brandmiller was working at a San Antonio arena converted into an emergency shelter for migrant children. Thousands of boys slept on cots as the Biden administration grappled with record numbers of minors entering the United States without their parents. Ms. Brandmiller’s job was to help control sponsorships and she…
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