Migration Policy

ISSUE BRIEF: 2021-2023: Child Exploitation at the Southern Border
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ISSUE BRIEF: 2021-2023: Child Exploitation at the Southern Border

TOPLINE POINTS The Biden Administration’s open border policies are responsible for the record setting number of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) trafficked or smuggled to the U.S. southern border. These vulnerable children are being exploited and abused by Mexican cartels, human traffickers, corporations, and their own families on the journey north and after the Biden Administration…

How U.S. policy drives child migrants into dangerous jobs
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How U.S. policy drives child migrants into dangerous jobs

Recent stories of migrant children working long hours and under dangerous conditions in the United States have shed light on how pervasive migrant child labor has become in this country. In December, Reuters published the third part of a year-long investigation about migrant children as young as 12 working in Alabama chicken plants and in…

Child Labor Is on the Rise as Republicans See an Answer to Labor Shortages
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Child Labor Is on the Rise as Republicans See an Answer to Labor Shortages

A grim truth underlies U.S. industry: the appalling practice of child labor, widely perceived as an anachronism, is far from a thing of the sooty industrial past. U.S. consumers may have a hazy sense that children labor somewhere in foreign sweatshops to manufacture their goods — but such faraway tragedies are too easily forgotten at…

The U.S. Is Choosing Child Labor Over More Immigration
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The U.S. Is Choosing Child Labor Over More Immigration

On storefronts throughout the U.S., “Help Wanted” signs have become about as ubiquitous as the stars and stripes. Today, there are roughly two job openings for every unemployed American. This historic labor shortage is propping up inflation as desperate employers raise wages to attract scarce workers, then boost prices to compensate for higher costs. Or…

Matt Gaetz is off the hook! DOJ officially exonerates controversial him in human-trafficking …
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Matt Gaetz is off the hook! DOJ officially exonerates controversial him in human-trafficking

In 2021, a former tax collector for congressional representative Matt Gaetz pleaded guilty to six federal charges including human trafficking. Career attorneys recommended charging Gaetz because of credibility issues with witnesses and prosecutors’ concern about testimony from the girl involved not holding up before a jury. The Department of Justice eventually cleared Gaetz of any…

Lawmakers want investigation, hearings into 'Wild West' of California cannabis and farm work
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Lawmakers want investigation, hearings into 'Wild West' of California cannabis and farm work

California lawmakers are calling for a sweeping investigation into corruption in the state’s cannabis industry, legislative hearings on the exploitation of farmworkers and new laws to thwart labor trafficking in response to revelations of rampant abuses and worker deaths in a multibillion-dollar market that has become increasingly unmanageable. The proposals follow a series of Times…

Biden's Deputies Use ICE Agents to Raise Pay for Illegal Workers – Breitbart
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Biden's Deputies Use ICE Agents to Raise Pay for Illegal Workers – Breitbart

President Joe Biden is directing the nation’s deportation agents to raise pay for the millions of illegal migrants who are pushing many older, slower, and sicker Americans out of the workforce. The new policy from border chief Alejandro Mayorkas dangles the promise of temporary residency permits to illegals who report workplace abuse by employers. The…

Zimbabwe clamps down on illegal recruitment – Bulawayo24 News
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Zimbabwe clamps down on illegal recruitment – Bulawayo24 News

PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said the Government is strengthening inter-agency cooperation to deal with unscrupulous recruitment agencies using unethical means to recruit desperate job seekers and ultimately subjecting them to human trafficking and exploitation. He said regional mechanisms to deal with issues of unfair and unethical recruitment in the Sadc region, particularly personnel from the health…

A World in Crisis: Global Humanitarian Crises and Conflicts Increase Human Trafficking Concerns
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A World in Crisis: Global Humanitarian Crises and Conflicts Increase Human Trafficking Concerns

Attachments “Humanitarian crises and global conflicts are increasing human trafficking” says leading UN Forum Recent and ongoing humanitarian crises and conflicts, resulting from war, terrorism, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as increased economic and food insecurity, are exacerbating existing vulnerabilities to and creating new risks of trafficking in persons. Globally, millions of…

In the middle of nowhere and not knowing what to do: Drama of Venezuelan migrants stranded on the Mexican border
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In the middle of nowhere and not knowing what to do: Drama of Venezuelan migrants stranded on the Mexican border

octubre 27 2022, 7:37 am Photo: La Patilla The countries that a Venezuelan must go through to achieve the “American dream” are Colombia, Panamá, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and México, a longing that fell apart on October 12th, after the Department of Homeland Security United States announced the expansion of Title 42, applied during…