Biden Administration Plans Crackdown on Migrant Child Labor [nytimes.com]

What Frank said, plus: While some refugees are fleeing climate change, Many especially from South and Central America are fleeing the results of policy. The two main categories of those policies are the war on drugs and capitalism. Both lead to a dismal if not dangerous life in their home countries.

I have noticed over the decades that the strong work ethic practiced by new immigrants and migrants is exceptional, particularly in the produce harvesting sector. It’s hump-busting hard work that almost all second or third (and so forth) generation Westerners won’t tolerate for themselves, myself included.

Every time I observe them I feel a bit guilty, since, considering it from purely a human(e) level, I see not why they should have to toil so for minimal pay and not also I? ... I can truly imagine such laborers being fifty to a hundred percent more productive than their born-and-reared-here counterparts.

In Canada, also, there’s notable contempt for migrants, and even [“fake”] refugees, many of whom are rightfully despondent, perhaps enough so to work very hard in cashless exchange for basic food and shelter.

These human beings don't willfully/contently become permanent financial/resource burdens on their host nation. And they do want to pull their own weight through employment, even if only to prove their detractors wrong.

And, by the way, what happened to our 'Christian charity and compassion'?

Migrant laborers should be treated humanely, including timely access to proper work-related bodily protections, but often are not.

Also, conveniently ignored is the fact many are fleeing global-warming-related extreme weather events and chronic crop failures in the southern hemisphere widely believed to be related to the northern hemisphere’s chronic fossil-fuel burning, beginning with the Industrial Revolution. 

If they feel they must, critics of such refugees/migrants should get angry at the politicians who supposedly allow in ‘too many’ migrants; but please don't criticize the desperate people for doing what we'd likely all do if in their dreadful position.

But then all that no longer matters when the migrants die in their attempt at arriving.

Last winter a young family of four from India froze to death trying to access the U.S. via sub-zero southern Manitoba. And I wonder how many have died or will while trying to access Canada.