NBC News speaks to migrant teen working in dangerous slaughterhouse



After investigators found more than 100 children working illegally for Packer Sanitation Services Inc., the company settled with the U.S. Department of Labor. However, NBC News’ Julia Ainsley spoke to an undocumented 16-year-old who is still working there, doing the dangerous job of cleaning a slaughterhouse.

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48 comments

  1. Wow that's wild. Poor baby. 😢

  2. Remember when HSBC was caught laundering money for Mexican drug cartels and terrorist organizations and the DOJ just fined them a few million bucks? It's pay for play for big corporations and the laws don't apply to them. Why do you think the two biggest cocaine seizures were on JP Morgan owned ships too? The regular people are getting slammed for the actions of the rich and it's time for the regular people to fight back.

  3. Charge the owner, and send the illegals back to wherever they came from.

  4. Biden's open border is backing this.

  5. Doesn't he know? Democrats don't work

  6. This is why we have the open boarder. Slave labor is coming to America. The rich know this! Your President knows this.

  7. Ask Google these two questions:

    Q1)
    packers sanitation services inc affiliated political party:

    "Packers Sanitation Services employees are most likely to be members of the Republican Party"

    Q2)who owns packers sanitation services:

    "Blackstone has owned Packers Sanitation since '2018' "

  8. Why not deport them back to their parents? Problem solved.

  9. He chose to lie to work, he can chose to try something else to pay the Coyote off and still send money home, try Dardin restaurants for example, you can be 16 and bus tables

  10. YOU LET THEM ALL IN…….👀..

  11. Happens everywhere, blue and red states

    This is bidens america

  12. Is there any way to support this young man by paying off his smuggler so he could get a more suitable and safe job?

  13. Slaughter house needs some accountability

  14. Slavery never ended in the U$

  15. Iowa and Arkansas have both removed most of the restrictions and fines for minor labor – just for this type of illegal/undocumented hiring. Protecting the companies instead of the children.

  16. Hey Joe, how about you finish that fn border fence?

  17. Fake news media helped to bring this chaos here…

  18. I call BS, they use everify but say he brought fake papers, even if they were real SSN number and license number made with his picture, everify shows the picture of the actual person on their system. So they can compare directly through there if it's him or not. It looks to me PSI has systems in place to have deniability but they don't use these system adequately

  19. 1.5 mil what a joke. Big corporations called that (the cost of doing business) because they making hundreds of Millions. How much money was given to the kids I bet zero. Just another way for the government to collect money for themselves

  20. That money needs to be given to the kids!

  21. How much you wanna bet the employer is anti-immigrant and a republican.

  22. Just because you are living in fear. Doesn’t mean you can lie on your application. And then act like this company is the reason you are working there. I call crap on all of this. Sounds like more fake news.

  23. Seems like if a child can do the work, robots would be where this company should be investing in. Build another building that will allow robots to do the work. Every night they would turn on and clean, when it’s done they go back to charging. That’s my idea to fix this situation. 🤷🏿‍♂️

  24. Well, they shouldn't hire illegals.

  25. The irony… use fake papers, snitch, then hide his identity

  26. That’s why no employer should hire any illegals.

  27. The migrants child labor used fake paper work to get the job. Also he is being exploited by a child trafficker and live with a relative who charge him rent and also aware of all this problems.

    This is why illegal immigration is the problem. It exploits these children who has been forced to act like adults so they can get a job in the US to send money back to their parents. They grew up being exploit by everyone around them from family, criminals and the system.

  28. None of that money the company was fined will go to compensate employees who have been wronged. Goes back to the U. S. Treasury

  29. This is a crying shame. I wonder if the owners of this company are white, racist Americans who encourage the immigration services to return undocumented immigrants to be returned to their country or separate minors for their parents. Please investigate.

  30. Go to 03:52

    Nice relatives…and it is said 'many' pay these relatives 'rent'.

    He's been working there since he was 15, about two years and still owes on the $2500 to the smuggler.

    Sends money to family, pays rent to 'relatives' he stays with in the US…

    This doesn't add up…except that ALL are using Pedro…family included.

    And NBC jumps right in to enable the whole mess by keeping his name secret so he doesn't lose his job.

  31. 0:50

    What a waste !!

    If you must eat animals then you should use every single bit of it.

    All that blood on the floor can be turned into black pudding…

    PS: I eat meat, I also eat black pudding 😮
    If you don't like it that's your call, i aint gonna try to talk you round !!

  32. Where was the translator from that accent is very strong🤷‍♀️

  33. Dang wish I had a job like that when I was in my teens

  34. Oh my goodness cleaning chemicals…..

  35. PSSI had revenues just under 2.8 billion dollars in 2022.

    Fining a multi billion dollar company 1.5m when it's found to be routinely using trafficked child labour isn't a punishment at all – it's all but an endorsement of this behaviour.

    Disgusting.

  36. Unfortunately those kids are working to feed a family not to buy stuff.

  37. No wonder Mexican kids be sleeping in class an this is normal for us

  38. wait..WHAT.. @ 1:06 How is an illegal with no papers going to an American public school.
    There is something wrong about this whole video.

  39. God bless you for me Maskoffaid the money Just arrived into my PayPal account now

  40. God bless you for me Maskoffaid the money Just arrived into my PayPal account now

  41. When they find him some other kid will be cleaning it up.

  42. So sad. And all the GQP screaming ' they're coming for your jobs ' oh, riiight. What a joke!

  43. Right there under everyone's nose, in #KANSAS What a load of crap.

  44. Vote for Pedro.
    Couldn't be any worse than Biden. Legal or not, at least he knows how to work.

  45. Who’s the ceo of the slaughter house who does he vote for im sure that’s not a democrat why isn’t this guy in jail teens children are working undocumented he’s getting free labor pretty much NOT PAYING TAXES!

  46. A company needs to do their own do diligence 1st, no excuses.