Teen Migrant Labor Trafficking Spurs Lawmakers to Demand Answers

The Biden administration must answer for a multiagency investigation into potential labor trafficking of unaccompanied migrant children released from government custody, according to lawmakers from both parties.

Members of Congress expressed outrage after Bloomberg Law reported Thursday that federal officials are probing whether the Department of Health and Human Services released teens to labor traffickers who forced them to work in poultry-processing facilities in Enterprise, Ala., Woodburn, Ore., and other locations.

“This is intolerable,” Rep. Lou Correa (D-Calif.) said in a statement. “As a member of the Agriculture and Homeland Security committees, ...