"Net Benefit"
Child labor abuses used to be one of those things that only happened in other countries.
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/03/child-labor-iowa-pork-plant
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From your linked article...
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Children who arrive at the US’s southern border alone often stay in the country for years before their cases are adjudicated. While they wait, they live with sponsors. As of 2023, only one-third of migrant children went to live with their parents, a sea change from a decade ago. That can leave children vulnerable to exploitation or trafficking.
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Had DJT signed the bipartisan Senate Immigration Bill, funding for adjudication of such cases would have been available now to resolve such situations much more quickly...his killing of that bill enables the bad actors to keep violating child protection laws...but he could care less...his only goal in life is to stay out of prison so that he can play golf and eat Big Macs...not all that complicated.
If any of these bad actors are in your supply chain, it can create issues for law abiding companies.
I know more about this than I want to.
Another consequence if our broken immigration “system”
Tell me more...
A system where you'd rather spend on lobbying and political contributions as an investment in cheap labor vs paying your employees fairly is disgusting.
But as the open minded person I am, maybe I'm missing the net benefits of such a system.