Child labor investigation spreads to meatpacking, produce companies in 11 states

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13. Precisely. They hire through contractors to achieve plausible deniability

and avoid any of the legal obligations for employing minors.

The only good thing to come out of this is that the victims of labor trafficking, as witnesses to crime, are granted special visas, sometimes even permanent residency if they want it and are allowed to bring their entire family here (on the same visa/permanent resident program) while they are waiting for the trials to work themselves out.

All of the horrible people who do this to children as well as adults need to go down asap.