Tyson Foods Shelbyville, TN: all sorts of goodies to get and keep immigrant labor

This is the first in what will be many posts in my new category‘ Legal immigration and jobs.’  In fact, it’s this piece of information, now mysteriously missing from the US State Department’s website, that inspired this new category. Clinton brings cheap refugee labor to Iowa I’ve reported on this many many times on these … Continue reading Tyson Foods Shelbyville, TN: all sorts of goodies to get and keep immigrant labor

Tyson’s Shelbyville plant gets another bomb threat

Update January 18th: Arrest made in the graffiti incident—bored twentysomething confesses,  bomb threats appear to be stunts too, but those responsible have not yet been identified, according to this report. Update: Jerry Gordon got the scoop and posted it at New English Review. An arrest was made today in this case.   I’m sure we will … Continue reading Tyson’s Shelbyville plant gets another bomb threat

Fear that graffiti might be terror threat at Tyson’s Food in Shelbyville, TN

Update January 2nd, 2011: Tysons needs to come clean with the whole story, here. Update December 30th: Tysons: move along, nothing to see, here. Update December 28th:  A few more details here. Longtime readers know that we’ve written many posts over the years about myriad problems with Muslim immigrants (mostly Somalis) working at Tyson’s Food … Continue reading Fear that graffiti might be terror threat at Tyson’s Food in Shelbyville, TN

Shelbyville, TN and the truth behind the making of a propaganda film

Reporter Brian Mosely: I never imagined three and a half years ago that simply telling a story honestly could lead to being demonized on national television, in a film sponsored by our own government, no less. [….] It’s as if someone made a film about Japanese interment during World War II and left out the … Continue reading Shelbyville, TN and the truth behind the making of a propaganda film