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Agreed to an extent, it's ok for high school students to go get some work experience, I did when I was that age. Giving humans a window in their lives where th

Agreed to an extent, it's ok for high school students to go get some work experience, I did when I was that age. Giving humans a window in their lives where they can focus purely on capturing a portion of ever expanding human knowledge, and, to be honest, hang out a bit, is a good thing in my opinion though. That said, lets not lose sight of what's going on here, the DoL has been trying to crack down on 13yo kids in meat packing plants. If this is the line that we're trying to push the overton window past, I want no part of it.

benTherenBack 3y ago
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leereeves 3y ago
Those are mostly unaccompanied minors who have no other options. If you want to allow them to live here (as many leftists do), how should they survive? > Dreier estimates that some 250,000 children have crossed into the U.S. without their parents in the last two years, and that the majority of them wind up working full-time jobs. https://www.npr.org/2023/05/04/1173697113/immigrant-child-labor-crisis https://www.npr.org/2023/05/04/1173697113/immigrant-child-la...
- kthejoker2 3y ago
  The people who own those plants employing them are not "leftists", quit projecting biases.
  - leereeves 3y ago
    Hah, bias. Did you somehow miss the comments above? > Republicans seek to weaken laws against child labor > Republicans continue crusade against childhood innocence There's a lot of bias there. And if those claims were true (spoiler: they aren't, for counterexample, according to the article, Republican legislatures in Texas and Montana have strengthened laws, the Democrat legislature in New Jersey weakened them, and the Virginia state legislature unanimously approved increasing penalties), they'd imply Democrats don't want these unaccompanied minors to work. Even though this is not, in fact, a partisan issue, one thing is clear. There are many leftists in this discussion who don't want these unaccompanied minors to work. So how do you all expect them to survive?

benTherenBack 3y ago

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leereeves 3y ago

Those are mostly unaccompanied minors who have no other options. If you want to allow them to live here (as many leftists do), how should they survive? > Dreier estimates that some 250,000 children have crossed into the U.S. without their parents in the last two years, and that the majority of them wind up working full-time jobs. https://www.npr.org/2023/05/04/1173697113/immigrant-child-labor-crisis https://www.npr.org/2023/05/04/1173697113/immigrant-child-la...

kthejoker2 3y ago
The people who own those plants employing them are not "leftists", quit projecting biases.
- leereeves 3y ago
  Hah, bias. Did you somehow miss the comments above? > Republicans seek to weaken laws against child labor > Republicans continue crusade against childhood innocence There's a lot of bias there. And if those claims were true (spoiler: they aren't, for counterexample, according to the article, Republican legislatures in Texas and Montana have strengthened laws, the Democrat legislature in New Jersey weakened them, and the Virginia state legislature unanimously approved increasing penalties), they'd imply Democrats don't want these unaccompanied minors to work. Even though this is not, in fact, a partisan issue, one thing is clear. There are many leftists in this discussion who don't want these unaccompanied minors to work. So how do you all expect them to survive?