EXCLUSIVE: DHS widens its investigation into migrant children found cleaning slaughterhouses and is working with the Justice Dept. to examine whether a human smuggling scheme played a part, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the investigation.
and is now working with the Justice Department to examine whether a human smuggling scheme brought migrant children to work in multiple slaughterhouses for multiple companies across multiple states, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the investigation.
Last month, the Labor Department found that Packers Sanitation Services Inc., known as PSSI, employed 102 children at 13 slaughterhouses across eight states. The children were cleaning blood and animal parts off the floor of meatpacking plants by night and going to school by day, the Labor Department investigators said.
The newly expanded probe by HSI and the Justice Department is examining whether those children and others were part of a scheme to smuggle minors from Central America into the United States to work for multiple companies in the meatpacking sector nationwide.
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