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Health and safety infractions are always lowballed.

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Wonder how many of them saw their 20th birthdays.

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If the employer is ever punished this shit would stop. But the immigrants need money from somewhere to eat, and are easy prey. Also, law enforcement on every level does NOT want to mess with white men.

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You know that is only your opinion, don't you? You cannot mandate someone else's moral system, only their actions (maybe) after the fact.

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Child labor laws are incredibly weak in agriculture because they were written when most farms were still small family operations.

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And the less you feed them, the slower they grow so clothes last longer.

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But we can't stop the pro-slavery scheme of our corporate oligarchy until we stop the xenophobic scheme of white nationalism.

I disagree. Women and blacks got the vote and many other rights without eliminating xenophia or white nationalism. There just have to be laws passed and enforced.

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For the food the money will buy.

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Many spankings and time outs were issued and for the most egregious offenses plant owners were grounded and had their allowances taken away for a week.

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Punished? Not with our bought courts

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Barely

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She needs the money for diapers for her rapist's babies.

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Too damned sad. Ta, Robyn.

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What about their cell phones?

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Whaaaaaaat the FUCK?

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Yes. This. But... Na ga da.

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