The Trump Admin cares about worker exploitation. Are those workers children in America? Of course not.

In recent years, investigative reports from around the US showed children working harrowing overnight shifts in slaughterhouses and using wildly dangerous machinery in auto body plants. These were not isolated incidents. In October 2024, the Department of Labor reported that child labor violations had increased by 88 percent since 2019.

My colleagues and I have researched hazardous child labor on US farms and interviewed children working exhausting 12-hour shifts in the heat, exposed to toxic pesticides and other dangers. While hiring children to perform hazardous work at meatpacking plants and on factory floors is illegal, most of the dangerous child labor we saw on farms still is not.

It turns out that the only workers that the American government care about are in Cuba.

Cuba’s labor export programs, which include the medical missions, enrich the Cuban regime, and in the case of Cuba’s overseas medical missions, deprive ordinary Cubans of the medical care they desperately need in their home country. The United States is committed to countering forced labor practices around the globe.

It's totally believable that the same administration dedicated to gutting Medicaid is terribly concerned with health care for workers in Cuba. Who feels differently? Other Caribbean nations.

During his first term as president of the US from 2017 to 2021, his administration imposed visa sanctions on Cuba’s global medical programme. His government claimed these missions amounted to “human trafficking” because, it said, Cuban doctors are reportedly underpaid.

This time around, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced restrictions on visas for government officials in Cuba and anyone else, globally, that the US deems to be “complicit” with Cuba’s foreign medical programmes. The State Department said the restrictions would extend to “current and former officials” as well as the “immediate family of such persons”.
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Some Caribbean leaders have declared they will give up their right to US visas if it means keeping Cuban medical missions.

This week, Barbados’s Prime Minister Mia Mottley gave a fiery address to parliament, calling the US stance “unfair and unjustified”.

“We could not get through the pandemic without the Cuban nurses and the Cuban doctors,” she said.
Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister, Keith Rowley, warned that US interference in Caribbean healthcare decisions was unacceptable.

“Out of the blue now, we have been called human traffickers because we hire technical people who we pay top dollar,” Rowley said, adding that he was prepared to lose his US visa.

Those poor Cuban doctors are getting underpaid because most of their paychecks are going back to the Cuban government that paid for their free education, but American doctors are not underpaid while much of their paychecks go to the American government to pay for massive loans to get their education.
That's totally different.

The PM of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines said, “If the Cubans are not there, we may not be able to run the service. I will prefer to lose my visa than to have 60 poor and working people die.” That's a very different attitude than American politicians.

Here is a stat worth remembering:
Cuba provides more medical personnel to the developing world than all the G8 countries combined.
Imagine an isolated island suffering under a permanent embargo that prevents it from being able to import things like ventilators and many types of medicine, has done more for health care in the developing world than all of the 1st world nations combined.

Cuba has several international medical programs.
The “Henry Reeve International Contingents” is an Emergency response medical brigade.

By 2017, when the WHO praised the Henry Reeve brigades with a public health prize, they had helped 3.5 million people in twenty-one countries. The best-known examples include brigades in West Africa to combat Ebola in 2014 and in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
After Hurricane Katrina, Cuba had 1,500 doctors ready to go to New Orleans to help, but Washington refused.

Establishment of public health care apparatuses abroad.

By December 2021, more than 6,000 Cubans medical professionals had saved 429,000 lives in the poorest country in the western hemisphere, conducting 36 million consultations.

Treating foreign patients in Cuba.

Two programs were developed to treat foreign patients en masse: The first is the “Children of Chernobyl” program which began in 1990 and lasted for twenty-one years, during which 26,000 people affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster received free medical treatment and rehabilitation on the island — nearly 22,000 of them children. The Cubans covered the cost, despite the program coinciding with Cuba’s severe economic crisis, known as the Special Period, following the collapse of the socialist bloc...By 2017, Cuba was running sixty-nine ophthalmology clinics in fifteen countries under Operation Miracle, and by early 2019 over four million people in thirty-four countries had benefited.

Medical training for foreigners.

By 2016, 73,848 foreign students from eighty-five countries had graduated in Cuba while that nation was running twelve medical schools overseas, mostly in Africa, where over 54,000 students were enrolled.

Then COVID hit.
As the rest of the world shut their borders, Cuba sent out even more doctors.

Nearly 40 countries across five continents have received Cuban medics during the pandemic, as the island nation—home to just over 11 million inhabitants—has once more punched far above its weight in medical diplomacy.
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The success of the medics has been a setback for the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, which launched an unprecedented campaign against Cuba’s medical missions in recent years, citing what it calls their exploitative labor conditions.

It's laughable to even think that the U.S. cares about exploitative labor conditions anywhere. A year later in the pandemic that number increased to more than 30,407 Cuban health professionals are in 66 nations.
It doesn't stop there. Cuba managed to develop all on it's own FIVE different COVID vaccines. And then Cuba actually shared the technology for free.