http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/16910
2023.5.4.
Recently, the New York Times carried an article to the effect that over 250,000 Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) entered the U.S. in the last two years, and thousands of them are being subjected to harsh labor in all parts of the country. The article continued as follows:
The UACs toil away, repairing roofs around the clock at slaughterhouses and running machines at factories, which are all against the Child Labor Laws.
In last February after the issuance of related laws, the White House announced that it will punish companies that employ children.
However, this has failed to stop the child labor which is increasing explosively. The Biden administration is either ignoring or overlooking this situation.
Old-timers of the government and outsiders concerned are reporting to the Department of Health and Human Services and its head on the endangerment of the UACs.
The Department of Labor made public the news reports on the increase of child labor, and senior aides of the White House are also reported on the evidences of the exploitation of child labor.
Some of them include the evidences showing that numerous UACs handled industrial equipment or hazardous chemicals.
Children, getting little aid from the government, still continue to be sent to the employers who put them to toilsome and dangerous work.
However, the administration officials concerned do not feel a deserved responsibility for not providing any protection for the UACs.
