Democrats have made it harder to crack down on illegal child labor

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Congress could require US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to dramatically increase the number of worksite investigations it conducts each month and file quarterly reports on the results.
48% : In its zeal to welcome illegal immigration and allow unscrupulous employers to get away with hiring lawbreakers, the Biden administration has dramatically expanded child labor at worksites across the country.
45% : But Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas gutted this effort the first year of the Biden administration in a memo where he directed ICE to "cease mass worksite operations" and stop investigations on any employer that could result in arrests of large numbers of illegal aliens.
40% : By the time ICE shows up, the unlawful labor is gone and evidence of the employer's crimes may be unavailable.
39% : Congress could also require the Department of Labor to work with ICE and ensure that illegal immigrants identified during a DOL investigation aren't allowed to move to a different employer.
37% :Joint operations between DOL and ICE are critical if child labor is to be stopped as there are different and complementary authorities that DOL and ICE can use during an investigation.
37% : Congress can also choose to block a provision included in previous DHS funding bills that prohibits ICE from arresting most sponsors of illegal-alien children arriving at our borders.
36% :ICE never knows what it will uncover when conducting a worksite investigation, but more often than not a visit to a questionable employer puts an end to child labor, exploitation, identity theft, tax evasion and a host of other crimes.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.