Best way to stop child labor is to secure the border

By Washington Examiner

Published July 31, 2023 4:00am ET

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Best way to stop child labor is to secure the border — This May 29, 2019 photo released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows some of 1,036 migrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, the largest that the Border Patrol says it has ever encountered. The federal government is opening a new mass shelter for migrant children near the U.S-Mexico border and is considering housing children on three military bases to add 3,000 more beds to the overtaxed system in the coming weeks. | (U.S. Customs and Border Protection via AP, File)

On the same day Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra was grilled by Congress for failing to vet immigrant family sponsors, the Department of Labor announced a 44% increase in the number of children it found working illegally this year.

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