Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.
Posted on AllSides February 26th, 2023
From The Left
Kirsten Luce for The New York Times
ANALYSIS
It was almost midnight in Grand Rapids, Mich., but inside the factory everything was bright. A conveyor belt carried bags of Cheerios past a cluster of young workers. One was 15-year-old Carolina Yoc, who came to the United States on her own last year to live with a relative she had never met.
About every 10 seconds, she stuffed a sealed plastic bag of cereal into a passing yellow carton. It could be dangerous work, with fast-moving pulleys and gears that had torn off fingers and ripped open a woman’s...
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