So-Called Compassion Leads To Migrant Teens Death

The Department of Labor and OSHA are conducting an investigation into the death of a 16-year old at a poultry processing plant. The company responsible has been cited countless times for safety violations, but they always manage to get away with paying a small fine. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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The Department of Labor and OSHA are conducting an investigation into the death of a 16-year-old at a poultry processing plant. The company has been cited countless times for the damnedest things where they're just ignoring safety of these kids. First of all, how many times have you and I done this story?

Oh my God, at this point, we're talking about dozens of times in the last year.

How many times have you seen it on corporate networks?

No, you don't ever hear these.

Why? Tyson is a big advertiser. These poultry folks are big advertisers. They sell all the chicken in the country. They sell all the beef in the country. And so what happens is, you're not gonna hear it from corporate media, but we did this story because we were talking about, I remember Tyson. You remember the Tyson story we did a few weeks ago? Tyson's closing down plants all over the country because it was discovered that they were getting ready to hire 40,000 immigrants to step into those shoes, right? Talk about it.

Yeah. And so now we've got this MarJac poultry processing plant, and they have multiple plants across the country.

Oh, all over the place.

But the issue with them is they did the same thing, said, okay, let's bring in the migrants. But they went a little step further. They said, we're not just gonna bring in the migrants, we're gonna bring in migrant teenagers.

Yes.

And we're not gonna have any kind of safety regulations. They didn't even have railing up where the, what is it called? The pulverizer.

Yes, yes.

Which can, if you get stuck in that, you are dead. And that's what happened to this 16-year-old.

Well, it's either that or you'll have a system that they know fails all the time. We've had people losing their arms. Sucked up into the system. We're talking about kids. Now, who they really love is the unaccompanied minors that are coming across the border. Alright. They love that because you got a 16-year-old that's gotta figure out how to live. Right. So he's gonna do anything. He or she's gonna do anything to keep kicking. And so this is what they do. They go out and they understand bring in more, bring in as many as you can because if we cut off an arm or we blind them, or they're hurt some way, we send 'em back to Guatemala. This kid Guatemalan, 16-year-old and this failure that took place that killed this kid had taken place dozens of times. They had been put on notice dozens of times that this can happen. Right?

Yeah. This wasn't even the first time somebody died in the last two years at that particular plant, almost in the same way. So two years prior to this child dying, you had another person die. They knew the failures. OSHA looked into it and said, hey, you did some bad things. We found about 10 other violations. Give us a hundred thousand dollars and we're done.

Well, human life is cheap, isn't it?

It is.

I mean, in their minds, human life is cheap. Used to be, we had to go to Honduras, Nicaragua, India, China to get slave labor. But now under the headline of compassion for immigrants, that's what really ticks me off. The American public, oh, we gotta do this. This is compassionate America. This doesn't have anything to do with compassion. It has to do with US Chamber of Commerce, associated industry, and every major corporation in the world, bringing these folks in so we can move folks out that we're paying minimum wages to and have these people work for slave wages. That's what's going on here, isn't it?

Yeah, 100%. And like you said, these are people who routinely get hurt. They're not told how to operate these things properly. And they know that, the CEOs, the corporations know that.