Image source.

Commentary by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

I have been reporting since Donald Trump won the U.S. elections last year, and immediately started promising to deport “10-15 million” illegal immigrants, that there was no way that he could possibly do that, because the U.S. depends upon these migrants to do jobs other Americans are unwilling to do.

The prosperity of the United States, and the comfortable lifestyle that so many Americans enjoy, as compared to most of the rest of the world, has only been possible due to our dependency on slave labor. It started with the African slaves trafficked here by the “Founding Fathers” to run the tobacco fields in the north, and the cotton fields in the south.

When the African American slaves were emancipated under Lincoln after the Civil War, most of that slave labor switched over to Mexicans and other Latinos from poorer countries, particularly in agriculture.

After the industrial boom that happened post World War II, Americans became richer and more prosperous than most of their Western European counterparts, who had to rebuild much of their infrastructure from damage during the war.

As the U.S. grew economically and the dollar became the world’s most valuable currency, the U.S. began to export much of their manufacturing to poorer countries who could produce the same goods much cheaper, mainly China, and also in factories that became known as “sweat shops” where the conditions of these factory workers did not enjoy the same protections that U.S. laws protected against for factory workers.

Much of this happened with the development of PC computers and the modern-day rise of computer technology. Apple Computers, for example, took a lot of heat for the way Chinese laborers were treated to produce the iPhone that quickly took over the cell phone revolution of the 1990s and beyond.

Here is an article The Guardian published 7 years ago:

Life and death in Apple’s forbidden city

In an extract from his new book, Brian Merchant reveals how he gained access to Longhua, the vast complex where iPhones are made and where, in 2010, unhappy workers started killing themselves.

The sprawling factory compound, all grey dormitories and weather-beaten warehouses, blends seamlessly into the outskirts of the Shenzhen megalopolis.

Foxconn’s enormous Longhua plant is a major manufacturer of Apple products. It might be the best-known factory in the world; it might also might be among the most secretive and sealed-off. Security guards man each of the entry points.

Employees can’t get in without swiping an ID card; drivers entering with delivery trucks are subject to fingerprint scans. A Reuters journalist was once dragged out of a car and beaten for taking photos from outside the factory walls.

The warning signs outside –

“This factory area is legally established with state approval. Unauthorised trespassing is prohibited. Offenders will be sent to police for prosecution!”

– are more aggressive than those outside many Chinese military compounds.

A cab driver lets us out in front of the factory; boxy blue letters spell out Foxconn next to the entrance.

The first people we stop turn out to be a pair of former Foxconn workers.

“It’s not a good place for human beings,”

says one of the young men, who goes by the name Xu. He’d worked in Longhua for about a year, until a couple of months ago, and he says the conditions inside are as bad as ever.

“There is no improvement since the media coverage,”

Xu says. The work is very high pressure and he and his colleagues regularly logged 12-hour shifts.

They paint a bleak picture of a high-pressure working environment where exploitation is routine and where depression and suicide have become normalised.

“It wouldn’t be Foxconn without people dying,” Xu says.

“Every year people kill themselves. They take it as a normal thing.”

Full article.

Here in 2025, the Trump administration is promising to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S., while also deporting all the illegal migrants.

Earlier this month (March, 2025), NBC News obtained data from ICE, to see how many migrants the Trump administration actually deported in February, Trump’s first full month in office.

They found that ICE deported fewer migrants in February 2025, than Biden did in February 2024.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deported fewer immigrants in February than they did under the Biden administration during the same month a year ago, according to ICE data obtained by NBC News that has not been previously reported.

According to the data, ICE deported around 11,000 migrants last month, the first full month Trump was in office, compared to just over 12,000 in February 2024. (Source.)

At this pace, only 528,000 migrants would be deported in four years during Trump’s presidency, a far cry from the 10-15 million he promised.

However, one of the things the Trump administration has done, is basically close the border and the traffic coming across it.

One major reason for the higher numbers under the Biden administration was higher traffic from attempted border crossings, both legal and illegal, in 2024 compared to 2025.

People who were first arrested by Customs and Border Protection, which typically means those arrested at the border, accounted for most of the deportations in February 2024 under Biden.

It is easier to deport people detained near the border than to find them after they disperse across the U.S. (Source.)

When the MAGA crowd complains about how many migrants Biden allowed across the border during his term, and also criticize him over the fact that most new jobs created under his administration went to migrants, they seem to fail to analyze this and understand what the real reasons were for this.

Because many of these same people in the Right Wing media decried the fact that the COVID-19 experimental injections killed so many people, and crippled many more, taking them out of the workforce in 2021 and the following years, as the former Black Rock hedge fund manager, Edward Dowd, so clearly demonstrated. See:

The Data Missing from Wall Street Economists: Skyrocketing Disabilities and Injuries in U.S. Workforce After COVID-19 “Vaccines”

So now that the border crossings have been reduced to a trickle, where is the labor going to come from in the U.S. economy, especially with all of these promises that the Trump administration is making to open new factories, to reduce our reliance on goods produced by slave labor in poorer countries, as well as build all these huge new data centers that are needed to keep fueling the AI bubble?

Well Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has one plan, which is to remove Child Labor Laws to allow American children to start working in factories again, so they can work all night while going to school during the day.

Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants

Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants. But that presented a problem for businesses in the state that are desperate for workers to fill low-wage and often undesirable jobs.

Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state legislature have a potential solution: children.

The state’s legislature on Tuesday is set to debate a bill that would loosen child labor laws, allowing children as young as 14 years old to work overnight shifts.

If the new law is passed, teenagers would be able to work overnight jobs on school days. They are currently prevented from working earlier than 6:30 am or later than 11 pm per state law.

DeSantis is supportive of the law and has been vocal of cracking down on immigration, echoing President Donald Trump’s rhetoric. However, economists have warned that could backfire, sparking further inflation and labor shortages.

“Why do we say we need to import foreigners, even import them illegally, when you know, teenagers used to work at these resorts, college students should be able to do this stuff,”

DeSantis said last week at a panel discussion with border czar Tom Homan, as first reported by the Tampa Bay Times.

A Florida law was signed in 2023 requiring employers with more than 25 employees that checks their immigration status using a federal database known as E-Verify. Employers who don’t comply with the law face fines of $1,000 per day until they provide proof that their workers are legal citizens.

“Yes, we had people that left because of those rules, but you’ve also been able to hire other people. And what’s wrong with expecting our young people to be working part-time now? I mean, that’s how it used to be when I was growing up,” DeSantis also said during the panel discussion.

The state has been easing up on child labor protections for years. Last year, the legislature passed a law allowing home-schooled 16- and 17-year old teens to work any hour of the day.

The state’s Republican-led legislature on Tuesday will debate the new law, which also includes a number of changes including eliminating working time restrictions on teenagers aged 14 and 15 if they are home-schooled and ending guaranteed meal breaks for 16 and 17 year olds.

The number of child labor violations in Florida has nearly tripled in recent years, according to US Department of Labor statistics. (Full Article.)

The new Trump Administration also canceled an “Advisory Meeting on Child Labor” with executives from some of the country’s biggest companies just recently.

State Department Calls Off Advisory Meeting on Child Labor

(Bloomberg) — The US Department of State canceled a key meeting with executives from some of the country’s biggest companies, as well as labor advocates, academics and other experts, to discuss combating human rights abuses in global supply chains, citing President Donald Trump’s efforts to streamline the government.

The executives form a group known as the Advisory Committee on Responsible Business Conduct, or RBC. A two-day town hall was set to take place last week, but the State Department called it off given the executive order on reducing federal bureaucracy, which mandated all advisory committees be reviewed and terminated if deemed unnecessary. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has been tasked with a broader push to slim the government.

In a November report viewed by Bloomberg, the group, which consists of 34 representatives from business, labor and academic organizations, made a raft of recommendations, including that the executive branch should elevate efforts to eradicate forced and child labor, as well as enhance resources for US businesses to be more globally competitive. (Full article.)

There were reasons, of course, to implement these Child Labor laws to begin with, during the Industrial Revolution.

Here is a short video with many original images:

The other thing that inevitably happens when children are forced into working to support the lifestyle of the rich, is that these children are trafficked, just as they are today among the migrants coming across the border.

The modern foster care industry in the U.S. is a child trafficking industry, and it started with the “Orphan Trains” with the development of the U.S. railroad industry, as poor migrant children living on the streets of New York City were shipped off to the Midwestern states to work in agriculture.

But the children were not really orphans, just poor migrants who still had families. And like today where the modern-day foster care and adoption business is run primarily by Christians, using hospitals and doctors, so it was back in the late 1800s.

Medical kidnapping actually has a long history in the U.S., and has always been a part of the “American Church.”

Here is another short documentary about 6 minutes long that explains this:

For more info, see:

The U.S. Foster Care System: Modern Day Slavery and Child Trafficking

So we are now seeing the full ramifications of the new Trump administration and the new “Far Right” which includes Silicon Valley Billionaires.

They want to “Make America Great Again” by increasing child slavery of American children, and reduce our dependency on foreign child slavery.

I am pretty sure now that of all the government agencies that are being eliminated under DOGE and the Trump administration, including the Department of Education, the HHS Administration for Children and Families (ACF) that funds the U.S. Child Trafficking system, is not one of those that will be eliminated. See:

Here’s How Musk-DOGE, Kennedy and Trump Can Immediately Cut Over $70 Billion in Federal Spending: End the Federal Child Trafficking Programs of CPS & Foster Care

This article was written by Human Superior Intelligence (HSI)

See Also:

Understand the Times We are Currently Living Through

The Five Child Trafficking Networks as Revealed by a Woman Who was Chosen to Succeed the “Queen Mother of Darkness” but was Rescued by Jesus Christ

The Bewitching of America with the Evil Eye and the Mark of the Beast

Distinguishing True Prophets from False Prophets in These Evil Modern Times

Who Controls the World? by Dr. A. True Ott

Exposing the Christian Zionism Cult

Insider Exposes Freemasonry as the World’s Oldest Secret Religion and the Luciferian Plans for The New World Order

Identifying the Luciferian Globalists Implementing the New World Order – Who are the “Jews”?

The Brain Myth: Your Intellect and Thoughts Originate in Your Heart, Not Your Brain

Fact Check: “Christianity” and the Christian Religion is NOT Found in the Bible – The Person Jesus Christ Is

Was the U.S. Constitution Written to Protect “We the People” or “We the Globalists”? Were the Founding Fathers Godly Men or Servants of Satan?