A few days ago, the New York Times published a major investigative report about how Joe Biden's open borders have created a boomtimes for illegal alien child labor exploiters.

These workers are part of a new economy of exploitation: Migrant children, who have been coming into the United States without their parents in record numbers, are ending up in some of the most punishing jobs in the country, a New York Times investigation found. This shadow work force extends across industries in every state, flouting child labor laws that have been in place for nearly a century. Twelve-year-old roofers in Florida and Tennessee. Underage slaughterhouse workers in Delaware, Mississippi and North Carolina. Children sawing planks of wood on overnight shifts in South Dakota.

Well, now Joe Biden says he's 'shocked, shocked,' at Hannah Dreier's extensive report highlighting the surge in child labor exploitation not seen since the days of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, and says he simply has to take action:

The Biden administration on Monday announced a wide crackdown on the labor exploitation of migrant children around the United States, including more aggressive investigations of companies benefiting from their work.

The development came days after The New York Times published an investigation into the explosive growth of migrant child labor throughout the United States. Children, who have been crossing the southern border without their parents in record numbers, are ending up in punishing jobs that flout child labor laws, The Times found.

The White House laid out a host of new initiatives to investigate child labor violations among employers and improve the basic support that migrant children receive when they are released to sponsors in the United States. Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, called the revelations in The Times “heartbreaking” and “completely unacceptable.”

Turns out unaccompanied migrant children need support, lots of support, they're expensive. The Bidenites have not been paying for that support after they've let them all in as come-one, come-all asylum cases. They've been handing them off to creepy human traffickers who've gone unvetted, some taking huge numbers of kids in groups of 20, and packing them off to work at the egg farms or a host of other industries.

The Times described how that goes:

Maybe these kids shouldn't be here in the first place but that isn't anything the Times, nor the Biden administration have ever considered. Just shovel out more of the taxpayer money and "punish" companies who exploit the kids, including those up the supply chain and they've got 'er fixed, right?

Not exactly. The interesting part of this is who the exploiters-to-be-punished are. Who are these brazen violators of child labor laws reminiscent of what goes on in some place like China or Bangladesh?

None other than Biden's own wokesterly company allies:

The Times found products made with child labor in the American supply chains of major brands and retailers, including Ben & Jerry’s, Fruit of the Loom, Ford, General Motors, J. Crew, Walmart, Whole Foods and Target. In Grand Rapids, Mich., children worked late nights at plants operated by Hearthside Food Solutions, which makes and packages food for other companies, including General Mills, Frito-Lay and Quaker Oats.

 Ben & Jerry's? Bailed-out General Motors? Wokester kings Target and Walmart? Greenie-sustainable Whole Foods?

Be interesting to see the response when Joe Biden goes after them -- and there is plenty of reason to think that Biden is too cowardly and cynical to do it.

The Times reports that Hearthside Foods, which contracts with General Mills, is currently under investigation. That company is not famous for its greenie virtue-signaling or donations to Democrats. The others, though, have been loudly virtue-signalling for years and turns out they are the biggest exploiters as well as big donors to Democrats.

So will Biden really do it, or is his claim to be investigating exploitative corporations just a public relations measure, targeting only a few token non-woke corporate violators to have something to tell the papers?  

We all know which answer is more likely, which may well mean that this child migrant labor exploitation, along with Joe's open border, continue. Biden after all, is loyal to his allies, and both he and they have a job to do to maintain that migrant pipeline into the states

As for Biden himself, the impact of his open-borders policies as the problem at the root of the problem, somehow never gets brought up. It raises the question of whether the crackdown on corporations is little more than a bid to cover up his own role in the horrible exploitation of migrant children.

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