They are changing America by changing the people
We’ve been following the ups and downs of the Somali migration to Ft. Morgan for several years. The mass migration to the town began in 2008 right after the big blow up in Greeley when Somalis demanded special prayer times at a Swift meatpacking plant there. A lot of the Somalis were fired and moved … Continue reading Hate crime investigation underway in “welcoming” Ft. Morgan, CO
There is a pattern to these stories that even Aljazeera understands. The formula goes something like this: struggling immigrants arrive in an American town, townspeople are mean and unwelcoming (examples are given), but hardworking immigrants overcome and are ultimately accepted with everyone living happily ever after in multicultural nirvana. So, the point is, you don’t … Continue reading Aljazeera: Meat giant Cargill, refugees, and the town folk of Ft. Morgan are one big happy family
No jobs! Disrespect for rental property! Don’t speak English! Need more child care! Not enough housing for refugees! Back in 2008 we wrote about “welcoming” Ft. Morgan, CO home of agribusiness giant Cargill. By the way, do you think Senator Jeff Sessions was referring to Cargill when he said the meat packers were driving the … Continue reading Ft. Morgan, CO article discusses the challenges of refugee overload
A few years ago we created a whole category here at RRW on the Somali demands for special prayer breaks at Greeley’s JBS Swift and Company meatpacking plant (Grand Island, NE was involved too). You can visit that category here. Some of those fired workers (and frankly agitators) went to the Cargill plant in Ft. … Continue reading Rough patches ahead for Cargill in Ft. Morgan, CO
Somali boy in Ft. Morgan, CO: “This is the United States….. Everyone can come.” I haven’t written about the “welcoming” city of Ft. Morgan in a long time. In 2005 a large number of Somalis got the word that Cargill meatpacking was the place to work and have been flooding into the city ever since. … Continue reading Denver Post tries really really hard to convince us that everything is peachy in Ft. Morgan