HelloFresh, a German-based meal delivery service, is under investigation by the Department of Labor for allegedly employing immigrant children at its facility in Aurora, Illinois.
Late last week, ABC News reported that the Department of Labor had opened a child labor investigation into HelloFresh and Midway Staffing, the agency that employed the alleged immigrant children given jobs at the Illinois facility. I admitted it.
“At least six teenagers, at least some of whom immigrated from Guatemala, were detained in the facility,'' said Cristóbal Cavazos, executive director of Immigrant Solidarity, an immigrant rights group that helped file the report to federal regulators. He was found working the night shift in the city.” ABC News report:
a spokesperson told ABC News. This Aurora, Illinois facility is a Factor75 facility acquired by HelloFresh in 2020.. Factor75 is a deli delivery service company. [Emphasis added]
The news comes as hundreds of thousands of immigrant children, known as unaccompanied alien children (UACs), are being reintegrated into American communities with adult sponsors with little follow-up by the Department of Health and Human Services. The announcement comes amid a boom in child labor trafficking across the United States. Human Services (HHS).
As reported by Breitbart News, in August the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General (IG) announced that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris' agency will receive 365,000 It was revealed that more UACs than people were released into the interior of the United States. .
According to the IG report, hundreds of thousands of these UACs are at risk of “trafficking, exploitation, and forced labor” because DHS and HHS are no longer in contact with them even after they are contracted with U.S. adult sponsors. has been done. They are not biological parents.
Health Secretary Xavier Becerra recently suggested to Congress that he has no regrets about his tenure at the department, despite a significant increase in child labor trafficking.
“Every day is a challenge, but we will do the best we can,” Becerra said.
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