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Meat plant cleaning service fined $1.5M for hiring more than 100 children
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Meat plant cleaning service fined $1.5M for hiring more than 100 children

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The Department of Labor says one of the country’s largest cleaning services for food processing companies employed more than 100 children in dangerous jobs. MINNEAPOLIS — One of the country’s largest cleaning services for food processing companies employed more than 100 children in dangerous jobs at 13 meatpacking plants across the country, the U.S. Department…

Federal government investigating possible human trafficking of children who cleaned slaughterhouses
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Federal government investigating possible human trafficking of children who cleaned slaughterhouses

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Federal investigators are looking into whether 50 children — some as young as 13 — who were allegedly illegally employed cleaning Midwestern slaughterhouses were victims of labor trafficking, three officials from the Department of Homeland Security told NBC News. Homeland Security Investigations agents have interviewed children who worked cleaning a JBS Foods slaughterhouse in Grand…

Homeland Security probes potential child trafficking at JBS slaughterhouses, NBC reports
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Homeland Security probes potential child trafficking at JBS slaughterhouses, NBC reports

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is investigating whether children who were illegally employed as night sanitation workers at slaughterhouses in the Midwest are victims of human trafficking, according to officials cited by NBC News. DHS officials told NBC the department is not investigating the company that hired the children, Packers Sanitation Services Inc. (PSSI)….

Federal government investigating possible trafficking of children who cleaned Grand Island slaughterhouse
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Federal government investigating possible trafficking of children who cleaned Grand Island slaughterhouse

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GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (NBC News) – Federal investigators are looking into whether 50 children — some as young as 13 — who were allegedly illegally employed cleaning Midwestern slaughterhouses were victims of labor trafficking, three officials from the Department of Homeland Security told NBC News. Homeland Security Investigations agents have interviewed children who worked cleaning…