A Nebraska cleaning company hired a 13-year-old immigrant girl; parents fear deportation

After working department announced that 3,800 immigrant children were exploited at work. in some US state, and The New York Times reported that hundreds of them were performing a job that puts your life at risklittle by little cases child exploitation began to appear, for example, in a 13-year-old girl who was hired to clean at the company’s meat processing plant Packer Sanitary Service (PSSI).

The Washington Post reported that the minor got a job because his mother gave him fake documents and changed his age so that she can be hired. And her stepfather drove her every night in his car to work.

Mother is from Joyabaha, a small town in Guatemala. He faces jail time for obtaining false documents, and his stepfather was sent to the Nebraska State Penitentiary. Both told the aforementioned medium that they were terrified at the possibility of being deported to their hometown.

According to the mother, who wished to remain anonymous, immigrated to the USA in 2016 and left her two daughters in the care of their grandparents, but after five years, she paid a few coyotes so they could cross them. According to her, she always preferred her daughter to focus on her studies, but in the summer she was bored and He asked her to find him a job so he could buy an iPhone 13 and clothes.

The Washington Post had the opportunity to speak with the minor, who confirmed that worked for three months at a meat packing plant taking out the garbage and cleaning sinksbut that he had to quit his job because the school found out that he skin burns caused by contact with chemical products “I love money, I love buying things.”

November 2022 The Department of Labor condemned PSSI for violating the Fair Labor Standards Act. by asking minors to clean cattle clippers, sharp saws and other dangerous equipment with highly hazardous chemicals at at least 13 meat processing plants.

The same exit began with the factories that employed the underage being run by some of the most established meatpacking companies in the United States, including JBS Foods, Tyson and Cargillwho were not prosecuted or fined.

Until now, the mother of a minor, like her stepfather, do not know how her fate will turn out, the truth is that they do not want to return to their countries.

Complaints about child labor exploitation keep the Department of Health and Human Services and its representatives under scrutiny. Xavier Becerrawhom they point to as the culprit for the increase in the number of working immigrant children, because they were released early from government shelters.