Secretary of Well being and Human Providers Xavier Becerra was caught on digital camera berating workers throughout a digital assembly, for not processing unaccompanied migrant minors on the border rapidly sufficient. However you’d by no means understand it for those who depend on the company Spanish-speaking press on your information, the place the callous feedback from one in every of their darlings had been HIDDEN from the general public.

Watch Becerra´s demeaning phrases in a video first shared by Hannah Dreier in a New York Instances investigative report concerning the alarming improve in pressured youngster labor, which the Latino networks buried:

XAVIER BECERRA O/C: If Henry Ford had seen this in his vegetation, he would have by no means change into well-known and wealthy. This isn’t the way in which we do an meeting line and children aren’t widgets, I get it, however we might do much better than this.”

In different phrases, Telemundo, Univision and CNN en Español selected to censor Becerra´s utter disregard for migrant kids by pushing for his or her early launch and placing them in susceptible conditions the place they’re extra prone to change into victims of exploitation. 

The networks, nevertheless, discovered time to report the alarming 70% rise in youngster labor violations since 2018, ONLY after the Biden administration reacted to the NYT story with plans to crack down on the unlawful employment of minors. 

The fact of rising numbers of unaccompanied kids coming into the nation and being launched into the arms of “sponsors” who find yourself exploiting them, whereas extraordinarily worrisome, is hardly breaking information. That the top of HHS desires meeting line remedy to permit extra kids into the nation to take advantage of, that is breaking information.

“If Henry Ford had seen this in his vegetation, he would have by no means change into well-known and wealthy. This isn’t the way in which we do an meeting line and children aren’t widgets, I get it, however we might do much better than this.”

However the networks selected to guard one in every of their own- a longtime visitor and now “historic” Cupboard secretary. Bitter phrases coming from the mouth of the Secretary of Well being and Human Providers, one we wish to assume units insurance policies geared toward our kids´s- and our own- well-being. Apparently, for the Latino company press, defending the general public persona of an essential ally within the pursuit for a assured, regular viewers, issues greater than revealing his blatant disregard for youngsters.

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