Especially if you’re underage and undocumented The graphic above popped up on Twitter last light and then Helaine Olen did this morning in writing about kids working in meatpacking (Washington Post): “A self-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor,” wrote Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937, as he sent the legislation known as the Fair Labor Standards Act to Congress. With the bill, which also established a national minimum wage, lawmakers condemned the ghastly practice of children toiling on factory floors to the past. But American child labor is making a comeback. Underage children are operating fryers in restaurant kitchens and assembling parts at auto plants. Last month, when the New York Times published a blockbuster expose on how some of the nation’s mostprominent companies depend on subcontractors who illegally employ migrant children, it brought attention to an ongoing horror. The Economic Policy Institute recently crunched Labor Department data and discovered an almost 300 percent increase in child labor violations since 2015. Kids from Central America as young as 12 are found working in auto parts and meatpacking plants. What we are seeing is a largely Republican effort to roll back protections for workers, Olen insists, but Democrats sometimes join in as well. In Arkansas, in Ohio, in Minnesota and Iowa. And in Congress. A bipartisan bill would allow parents who own logging operations “to employ their 16- and 17-year-old children to operate mechanized equipment.” Under supervision, dontcha know: Meanwhile, not a single Republican has signed onto legislation recently introduced by Senate Democrats that…