Federal agents found more than two dozen minors illegally working inside a poultry plant in Kidron, Ohio, earlier this month, according to local immigration advocates who spoke to NBC News on the condition of anonymity.

The children, mainly from Guatemala, according to the advocates, were working in meat processing and sanitation in a plant run by Gerber’s Poultry, which produces Amish Farm Chicken, advertised with the slogan “Better feed, better taste.”

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    1 year ago

    At 9 PM, when the kids should have been in bed, getting a good night’s sleep for school the next day.

    No arrests, no fines. Mostly if not all Guatemalan children, probably undocumented, likely deported after a nice traumatizing ICE detention.