To their credit, some members of Congress (amazingly including some Democrats) have not lost sight of earlier reports indicating that more than 85,000 children seem to have gone missing after crossing the border into the United States illegally. Some of them may (hopefully) have wound up safely with family members around the country while others were tragically fed into a sex trafficking pipeline. But another large number of them have turned up working, sometimes in forced labor situations. This led to the questioning of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra yesterday over how his Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is tracking migrant children and how bad the child labor problem has become. Shockingly, Becerra admitted that there has been a 44% increase in children found to be illegally employed this year. And that’s only the ones we’ve been able to locate. (NBC News)Read More
Number of children working illegally up more than 40%
