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Today, for the first time, Biden's domestic policy chief Susan Rice addressed how she missed the rise of migrant child labor in the US.
It came as she announced her resignation.
“We were never informed of any kind of systematic problem,” she said in an exclusive interview.
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Ms. Rice said in an interview Mon the border could not be addressed “purely through enforcement.”
At the same time “we have an obligation to enforce our laws.”
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Lawmakers from both parties had pledged during oversight hearings last week to keep pressing for answers on Susan Rice’s role in the migrant child labor scandal.
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In 2021, as unaccompanied children were sleeping on detention center floors under foil blankets, Rice vented her frustration in a handwritten note.
“This is BS,” she wrote. “What is leading to ‘voluntary’ separation is our generosity to UCs!”
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Susan Rice is stepping down.
Last week, we reported that she and her team ignored warnings about the explosion of migrant child labor in the US.
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This isn't about paring back child labor protections around the edges. The GOP bills let 14 and 15-year-olds take on overnight shifts and dangerous assembly line jobs. Work that has been banned for children for a century.
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Why are half a dozen Republican-controlled states suddenly rolling back child labor laws?
The legislation all goes back to the same source: A billionaire-backed Florida lobbying group.
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Curious to know how Iowa legislators think kids under 16 are supposed to go to school if they're working six hours a day.
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In three separate hearings yesterday, Congress grilled Biden officials on how they missed the migrant child labor crisis.
DHS Secretary Mayorkas said the administration is now taking action to end "the horrific exploitation of children."
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Senior staff at HHS risked their jobs to warn the Biden administration that the rush to send migrant children to sponsors was putting kids in danger.
Several say they were pushed out in retaliation. Meanwhile, the number of children being trafficked or exploited has skyrocketed.
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As migrant children were exploited for cheap labor in the US, the people who were supposed to protect these kids looked the other way.
Whistleblowers warned the White House for two years, but were dismissed as thousands of children took on dangerous jobs.
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It was an amazing honor to work with legendary writer & editor Katherine Boo on this in-depth piece for the abt another legendary journalist Miroslava Breach and the collective of Mexican journalists who came together to investigate her murder.
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Congress will hold hearings on migrant child labor next week.
“The administration’s neglect has led to the tragic exploitation of some of these children."
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So how do you report a story like this out? Some hints in the piece:
"ProPublica spoke to more than 15 former yacht workers"
"According to interviews with more than a dozen visitors and former resort staff"
"said...the artist commissioned by Crow"
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I wrote about the excruciating cruelty of the rich world's treatment of refugees from the poor world, connecting the dots from a fire on the US-Mexico border to a biblical earthquake in Turkey and Syria.
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ICE has been using subpoenas to pressure elementary schools, abortion clinics and reporters to give up information about immigrants.
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DAYS LATER, still can’t get this Venezuelan’s testimony out of my head. He describes how they were picked up from streets of Juarez Monday and punished for selling candy, cleaning windshields. He came looking for his friend, one of the men detained. (Thread)
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There are reasons why some migrant children might not want to talk to US child welfare workers.
But the number of kids the government has been unable to reach since 2021 is knowable.
That number is more than 85,000.
And the share of kids who get immediately lost is growing.
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This morning, Secretary Becerra said the 85,000 unreachable migrant children figure is "not a statistic."
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In several congressional hearings, HHS Secretary Becerra has been asked about our reporting that HHS couldn't reach 85,000 migrant children right after releasing them.
He says he doesn't know where those numbers come from. For what it's worth, they're from the HHS press office.
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The parents of two children who died by AR-15 gunfire consented to having The Post visually reconstruct what the bullets did to their bodies.
A spokesman for the family of Peter Wang, a Parkland victim, said the "parents want people to know the truth"
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In Massachusetts, companies illegally hire migrant children at seafood-processing plants where they use sharp knives and operate dangerous shellfish extraction machines.
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A fascinating look by Craig Silverman into the world of OnlyFans models and online influencers who rely on Instagram for income--and the mysterious scammer who is destroying their livelihoods.
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Amazing that in 2023, The New York Times editorial board has to come out and remind people child labor is actually bad.
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. & conducted the largest nongovernmental randomized survey of U.S. transgender adults.
The results informed a series of stories that will start rolling out today with important findings and context by
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“Basically, I would like to lay somewhere in a hole, and hide in that hole,” he said. “And sit there for at least a day or two, and just scream, and cry, and scream, and cry.”
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Inside a Phoenix homeless camp so immense it operates as its own separate economy. Blue fentanyl pills sell for $2. Young men sell pieces of the public sidewalk, charging $20 a week for "lot rent and security." A pair of shoes buys a week’s supply of meth.
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Our coverage of banned books in prisons continues. We recently added policies to our tool in response to audience feedback. Now find out what we've learned so far investigating them, look up your state's policy, or download the latest data.
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Child labor violations are the highest they've been in years.
At the same time, at least 10 states have introduced or passed laws rolling back child labor protections.
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New NYT op-ed from me, about the fundamental immaturity of measuring immigration policy solely by border apprehensions.
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Hunger stalking Venezuela again as even families with access to dollars can't keep up with food price inflation.
"Money which today got you 20 products by tomorrow won't even get you half that."
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"Writing in blue pen...the governor had personally removed any mention of crime statistics justifying Warren’s suspension, after DeSantis’s lawyers lamented that they could find nothing in them to support the idea that Warren’s policies had done harm."
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Ohio's State Senate votes to ease child labor laws & push back how late 14- & 15-year-olds can work to 9 pm from 7 pm during school year
Federal regs bar 14- & 15-year-olds from working after 7 during school year. Fed regs should prevail over state regs
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Can you say “Dickensian?” Child labor makes a comeback in America.
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States are looking to children to make up for a shortage of workers willing to take low-paid jobs.
One child labor law rollback just got signed into effect in Arkansas, and more are coming in Georgia, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and South Dakota.
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Hearthside Food Solutions, the company that had migrant children packing Cheerios and Cheetos in dangerous Michigan factories, could be downgraded to junk bond status. wsj.com/livecoverage/s
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🚨🚨 AR Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed into law this week a bill that rolls back big portions of the state’s child labor protections.
The law eliminates requirements for the state to verify the age of children under 16 before they take a job.
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Proposed class action lawsuit filed against Ben & Jerry's accuses the ice cream company of using migrant child labor and falsely advertising that its milk is ethically sourced.
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