From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernice and this is The Daily.

A Times investigation has found that migrant children are working in some of the most dangerous

jobs in the country, in slaughterhouses, on construction sites, and in factories, making

products for some of the best-known American brands.

Today, my colleague Hannah Dreyer, on the failures that have led to a crisis in child labor,

and now that it's been exposed, what the government plans to do about it.

It's Thursday, March 9th.

So Hannah, you've been investigating child migrant labor in this country for nearly a year

now, and you've come out with some pretty remarkable reporting.

So tell me how you came to this story.

What made you start looking into it?

This is actually something that I've been thinking about for years.

I've been reporting on immigration for more than 10 years, and back in 2018, I was doing

some reporting into Trump era raids on undocumented teenagers.

And I realized that a lot of the teenagers I was reporting on were working overnight shifts

making cookies for a nationally distributed brand.

And this is sort of an open secret in the immigration world.

People know that a lot of the kids who crossed the border on their own end up working.

So when I started at the Times last year, I was thinking about looking into this again,

and I assumed that these kids would mostly be working in agriculture, maybe some would

be washing dishes.

But what I found when I really started getting on the ground was something totally different.

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