Teen risked all to flee Guatemala. Her payoff: grueling job in U.S. chicken plant

JOSHUA SCHNEYER, MICA ROSENBERG and KRISTINA COOKE for Reuters report that “U.S. poultry plants, hungry for labor, rely on migrant workers and staffing agencies to fill jobs. With migration soaring from Central America, some minors are making their way into that pipeline. Reuters found one Guatemalan teen who, with the help of illegal brokers, landed a job at an Alabama plant.”

The story tells about a teen migrant poultry worker:

“t age 16, when most kids in the United States are halfway through high school, Amelia Domingo found herself working on chicken processing machines in this farm town and deep in debt to loan sharks in her native Guatemala.”

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KJ