Why Child Labor is an Immigration Issue
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🗓️ 8 March 2023
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Summary
The New York Times published an exposé on immigrant children illegally employed to do dangerous jobs across the country. To one U.S. representative, it’s not just a labor issue; it’s symptomatic of the larger problems in the immigration system. Fixing it, then, will require once again taking up the fight to overhaul immigration.
Guest: Rep. Hillary Scholten, U.S. representative from Michigan’s 3rd congressional district.
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| 0:46.0 | You know, I was in the car leaving our very first town hall, |
| 0:51.0 | and I opened up my phone and I had probably no less than a dozen text messages, |
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| 1:09.0 | I just, I couldn't believe what I was reading. |
| 1:13.0 | Representative Sculpton was reading The New York Times, |
| 1:17.0 | their big investigation into immigrant child labor. |
| 1:21.0 | The very first anecdote in this 5,000-word opus is about a 15-year-old girl, |
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