Guatemala Boy Dies While Working at Mississippi Poultry Plant
A 16-year-old Guatemala boy lost his life while operating equipment at a Mississippi poultry plant.
Three food processing plants in Mississippi were found to have not just paid their workers, who were illegal aliens, with unlawful wages-one of the plants also violated child labor laws.
Four hundred children and young adults were liberated from slave-like conditions, after being subjected to exhaustive work at Mexican farms for a year, according to Alfonso Navarrete, Secretary of Labor in Mexico and a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
Childen as young as 10 years old are being asked to go to work in Bolivia. According to legislation passed by Bolivia's congress, as long as work doesn't interfere with education and it's done independently so that the child helps the family make ends meet, then it should be fully sanctioned.
In the United States, it's illegal for children under 18 to buy cigarettes. But it's permissible for those very same children to be a part of the cultivation and harvesting of tobacco, which produces side effects far worse than if they'd simply taken a puff.
