They are changing America by changing the people
The Tyson’s meat packing plant is down the road about five miles from Garden City, KS, but the spillover of refugee workers into Garden City seems to be starting to have an impact on the town according to a pair of stories in the Garden City Telegram. I’ll report on the driving problems refugees are … Continue reading Another Kansas meat packing town struggling with immigrants
This is such a joke but a very clear example of how all this works—by giving a prize to a community organizing group like the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC), the big moneybags in the Open Borders crowd legitimize their agenda even if it isn’t working. Members of the public, who generally know … Continue reading Tennessee ‘community organizers’ win a big prize
A new study out yesterday from the Center for Immigration Studies confirms that immigrant labor keeps wages low in the meatpacking industry. The primary thrust of the study by Jerry Krammer was illegal immigration labor, but it discusses the recruitment of refugees by companies like Swift & Co. and Tyson Foods after illegal immigration raids had initially reduced … Continue reading Center for Immigration Studies confirms immigrant employment depresses wages at meatpacking plants
Your tax dollars: If you are a longtime reader of RRW, you will remember how Emporia, KS struggled with a flood of Somali refugees who came to town for jobs at the local Tyson’s meatpacking plant. Fort Morgan, CO, take note. In an effort to do good by all the refugees who had no education … Continue reading Somalis move with meatpacking jobs, leave towns in a lurch
Update October 17th: Read all the comments at the NYT about this article here. Update: I have been out all morning and in my travels I picked up today’s New York Times (only the second copy I’ve bought in years) and this Somali story is on the front page ABOVE THE FOLD. Amazing! I … Continue reading Somali conflicts in meatpacking towns make the New York Times