Over 100 kids illegally employed in hazardous jobs, contractor pays $1.5M fine

Re:Over 100 kids illegally employed in hazardous jobs, contr... by PuppyTailWags on Monday March 13, 2023 @01:18PM (#35138950)

We do not have de-facto open borders, and this is a huge exaggeration. Immigrants are turned away all the time for all manner of arbitrary reasons. Just because there are large numbers of undocumented people in the country doesn't mean that there isn't border enforcement. Border enforcement is just a hard, expensive problem to solve with no clear vision or leadership.

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Re:Over 100 kids illegally employed in hazardous jobs, contr... by breakingrules on Monday March 13, 2023 @01:26PM (#35139102)

I grew up in southern california, the borders are wide open and you are wrong. They're often not being turned away because they're not being encountered. They run across and they're here. Once they're here, they are shipped inland by our tax dollars. It isn't a fantasy, but people from border states know best.

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Re:Over 100 kids illegally employed in hazardous jobs, contr... by PuppyTailWags on Monday March 13, 2023 @01:34PM (#35139280)

I'm literally currently existing in such an immigrant town. We do not have open borders. We have poorly and inconsistently enforced border patrols, which is completely different. I'm not saying there isn't a problem, I'm saying it's important to not exaggerate the problem.

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Re:Over 100 kids illegally employed in hazardous jobs, contr... by yunohn on Monday March 13, 2023 @01:50PM (#35139571)

> We do not have open borders

I’m assuming you are aware that no country in the world has fences or patrols of their borders to any significant length, right?

The reason is both financial/logistical infeasibility, as well as bipartisan neglect. Without cheap labor both locally and abroad, the Western world would collapse overnight.

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