Comicomment: U.S. 'beacon of human rights' fails migrant children

(ECNS)--The United States' notorious human rights record appears to have added another stain. On April 26, local time, Tara Lee Rodas, a Health and Human Services whistleblower testified before a House subcommittee, alleging that the U.S. government has become "the middleman in a large scale, multibillion-dollar child trafficking operation," where migrant children are subjected to "forced labor and other forms of slavery."

Despite proclaiming itself as the "beacon of human rights," the United States is the only country that has not ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). The increasingly worsening problem of migrant child labor fully exposes the structural defects of the U.S. system and the persistent malaise of systematic human rights violations.