Yes, that is the most likely explanation, that political correctness has run amuck in Alabama. Not that Alabama is a third world shit hole.
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Violate the norms of political correctness and you will definitely experience "outright threats and coercion". You can be assured that if anybody spoke out about suspected underage immigrants and turned out to be wrong they would be vilified all over social media, fired, and likely find it hard to find new employment. Why take a chance? Most people just stay silent.
Are you actually trying to create a liberal strawman to blame? 
Show me a single instance of this happening in the past. Where is the straw this strawman is made of?
When I think of the many insurmountable challenges that Alabama faces: illiteracy, obesity, systemic racism, deep-seated anti-intellectualism, and more racism, being overly woke is not on the list.
You left out just plain old racism.
Easily the most moronic post I’ve read here in a long, long time.
People don’t report work violations when they fear losing their livelihoods, when they need the money too badly to risk losing the job or getting deported or getting others deported.
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Here’s where political correctness enabled the rape of 1,400 children:
“… police forces lean over backwards to avoid the accusation of racism, while social workers will hesitate to intervene in any case in which they could be accused of discriminating against ethnic minorities”
Modnote: @agzem, Your 3 posts are wildly off-topic and far too political for MPSIMS. You are instructed to stop posting in this thread for now and I will hide your posts in spoilers with instructions to not respond.
I believe at least a warning will be coming shortly.
Sorry for the extra long delay, the Open Timer didn’t work for some reason. It was suppose to 12 minutes and not 22.
While I do not have great faith in Alabama doing the right thing for the right reasons, they may (hopefully) make it more than the most minor slap on the wrist. The reason being, for the snips from the OP and the article itself, that it’s a pattern going back at least three years, and likely involving substantial numbers.
Now @Dr.Winston_OBoogie is absolutely correct about the legal protection provided by using the subcontractors, but someone, somewhere, likely reported this issue to HR at least once if we are really talking about 50 or so such employees. And if Hyundai had the reports and did nothing, that’s something that the normal dodges may miss.
Do I think it’ll go past the fines and ‘review of our subcontractor’ policy? No. But it might be an actual substantial fine, and a requirement for additional oversight. The first I find likely, the second not so much… unless it comes from a federal investigation.
But the most important point is probably from @DrDeth
So spread the word.
Right? They were otherwise juat going to steal an education from taxpayers.
That is a commodity in short supply in Alabama. Likely because there’s little demand.
Your 3 posts in this thread have generated a Warning and your many warnings in the last 2 years along with 50 flags with a very high percentage of borderline posts has brought on a 3 day suspension while the Modloop is discussing your continuing as a poster.
The same game has been played in agriculture for decades: limit/eliminate liability by hiring contractors for staffing needs, and then look the other way when the child labor force shows up carrying Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Hello, Kitty ! lunch boxes.
It’s pretty damned disgusting.
Lunch boxes!? What is this, some kind of Commie, Socialist, Libtard commune? They can eat on their own time when they get back to the barracks.
Barracks!? What happened to the tents?
From a safe distance I will stand up for the people of Alabama and say that there are likely many people there who want and would profit by a decent education.