Beyond the Headlines: Child Migrant Labor
![[ai] A close-up of a young person's back, wearing a backpack, with text overlay that reads, 'Beyond the Headlines: Child Migrant Labor' presented by The Advocates for Human Rights.](/Res/400/White and Yellow Gradient Business Talk Podcast 6.png "[ai] A close-up of a young person's back, wearing a backpack, with text overlay that reads, 'Beyond the Headlines: Child Migrant Labor' presented by The Advocates for Human Rights.")
Country: United States of America
Issues: Children's Rights, Human Trafficking, Migrant Rights, Workers' Rights
An explosive report in the New York Times found that hundreds of unaccompanied children are being exploited for their labor by some of America's biggest companies. Child labor is only possible through multiple failures of the protection system to prevent such abuses.
In this episode of The Advocast, Michele Garnett McKenzie, deputy director of The Advocates for Human Rights, is joined by attorneys Kim Boche, who represents unaccompanied children facing removal, and Lindsey Greising, who represents victims of labor trafficking, to understand how the legal system protects - or puts at risk - unaccompanied children.
