The Night is Young

“At 14, Marcos was maimed while working the overnight cleaning shift at a Perdue slaughterhouse in rural Virginia. He is one of thousands of migrant children living far from their parents and working dangerous jobs. In towns like Marcos’s, the practice is an open secret that everyone lives with.” Hannah Dreier in the NYT Mag on the part of the immigrant story that doesn’t often come up in heated political debates. The Kids on the Night Shift. “If companies like this looked too closely at who was working, no company would be able to keep going.”