Pirate's Cove

So, let’s see. Biden, his administration, and all sorts of Democrats basically invited people from all over the world to stream into the U.S. illegally and declare asylum, so immigration exploded. And one of the results was child labor

U.S. Was Warned of Migrant Child Labor, but ‘Didn’t Want to Hear It’

In the spring of 2021, Linda Brandmiller was working at an arena in San Antonio that had been converted into an emergency shelter for migrant children. Thousands of boys were sleeping on cots as the Biden administration grappled with a record number of minors crossing into the United States without their parents.

Brandmiller’s job was to help vet sponsors, and she had been trained to look for possible trafficking. In her first week, two cases jumped out: One man told her he was sponsoring three boys to employ them at his construction company. Another, who lived in Florida, was trying to sponsor two children who would have to work off the cost of bringing them north.

She immediately contacted supervisors working with the Department of Health and Human Services, the federal agency responsible for these children. “This is urgent,” she wrote in an email reviewed by The New York Times.

But within days, she noticed that one of the children was set to be released to the man in Florida. She wrote another email, this time asking for a supervisor’s “immediate attention” and adding that the government had already sent a 14-year-old boy to the same sponsor.

Brandmiller also emailed the shelter’s manager. A few days later, her building access was revoked during her lunch break. She said she was never told why she had been fired.

In fairness, Biden has no idea what’s going on. And his administration just doesn’t have the time to deal with the minutia or the fallout from policies.

Over the past two years, more than 250,000 migrant children have come alone to the United States. Thousands of children have ended up in punishing jobs across the country — working overnight in slaughterhouses, replacing roofs, operating machinery in factories — all in violation of child labor laws, a recent Times investigation showed. After the article’s publication in February, the White House announced policy changes and a crackdown on companies that hire children.

But, really, not the policies which incentivize people to come to the U.S. illegally and to stop bringing the kids.

But all along, there were signs of the explosive growth of this labor force and warnings that the Biden administration ignored or missed, the Times has found.

Again and again, veteran government staffers and outside contractors told the Health and Human Services Department, including in reports that reached Secretary Xavier Becerra, that children appeared to be at risk. The Labor Department put out news releases noting an increase in child labor. Senior White House aides were shown evidence of exploitation, such as clusters of migrant children who had been found working with industrial equipment or caustic chemicals.

As the administration scrambled to clear shelters that were strained beyond capacity, children were released with little support to sponsors who expected them to take on grueling, dangerous jobs.

This is a long, long, long piece, but, at the end of the day, Biden is president. He is responsible for this. There’s lots and lots of “blameshifting” at the lower levels, but, Biden is president. He bears the responsibility, because it’s his policies causing this. There mentions of lower level people warning their bosses this was happening, and then being moved out of their positions in retaliation. Many were raising alarms. Many were ignored. Many were reassigned. Many asked for whistleblower status because of their treatment. Many left HHS. Some sued, and were paid off by the Biden admin with taxpayer funds.

But, nowhere in this NY Times piece is Biden blamed.