Sarah Gonzalez

This is also why we're not using Maria's full name or the names of their employers.

But the garment worker center, which fights labor violations, says this kind of thing happens all the time.

And Pacheco has a lot of regrets about investing so much of her adult life in this industry.

She says she has nothing to show for her work.

No savings, no career advancements.

She feels broken by it.

Pacheco, Maria, they say this is not a job they would want for their loved ones.

Like Pacheco's kids or Maria's grandkids, who all graduated college.

Maria says she wants them to be something in life.

I tell her, you're something.

Yeah, I'm something, she says.

But she raised her kids.

They all ate.

And she's proud of herself.

But she cannot imagine many Americans would want this job.

She's like, come on, you think they'd be crouched over all day?

I will never look at a shirt or a bra, a pair of pants, and not see, like, oh, 15 people probably worked on that.

Like, I never knew that it took, that that many people touched one garment in the United States.

It took 15 people to make a bra.

It took 20 people to make a t-shirt.