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Alone and Exploited

Migrant children by the thousands are working—and sometimes dying—across the U.S. in factories, slaughterhouses and construction sites. Employers ignored their youth; the government turned its back. Until The Times started digging.

Migrant children by the thousands are working—and sometimes dying—across the U.S. in factories, slaughterhouses and construction sites. Employers ignored their youth; the government turned its back. Until The Times started digging.

  1. Carolina packages Cheerios at night in a factory. She is 15.
    CreditKirsten Luce for The New York Times
  2. When Antonio Diaz Mendez arrived in the U.S. from Guatemala at age 14, he was already deep in debt and largely on his own.
    CreditKirsten Luce for The New York Times
  3. Marcos Cux, 15, in the rubber coat of a sanitation-shift worker at his local Purdue poultry plant. He was working a night shift last year when a deboning machine mangled his arm.
    CreditMeridith Kohut for The New York Times

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  5. Miguel Sanchez, 17, came alone to the United States and has been working at an industrial dairy for about two years.
    CreditRuth Fremson/The New York Times
  6. A 16-year-old from Honduras works to lay roofing paper on a house in South Carolina, September 2023.
    CreditGustavo Acosta for The New York Times
  7. Children being processed by the U.S. Border Patrol in Roma, Texas, last year. In the past two years alone, 250,000 minors have come into the United States without their parents.
    CreditKirsten Luce for The New York Times
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