Asides from the 835 companies found to be illegally employing minors this year, many more companies legally employ kids on U.S farms, many of them migrant children, thanks to an underage-labor exemption unique to agriculture.
José Velasquez Castellano was only 8 when he worked his first day in the fields. By the time he was 13, he was regularly toiling alongside his mother on a tobacco farm. Castellano was not unaccompanied when he entered the country, unlike much of the recent influx, but he has been through comparable trials, and he has great empathy for those now enduring the same.. “So she herself started working in agriculture when she was a teenager.
When working in the tobacco fields, Castellano described, the nicotine “will seep into your skin.” He worries about potential long-term effects, from the tobacco as well as from pesticides and other chemicals. “I don’t know what effects those had on me, but I know it shouldn’t have happened. But you’re in this position where you can’t really speak out against things that are wrong, because you could lose your only form of income.
The agricultural sector accounts for half of all child worker deaths — 33 child worker injuries occur on U.S. farmlands each and every day.
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