Memory Lane: Meatpackers Work Directly with ‘Religious’ Refugee Contractors

Because it is all over the news these days, I figured this might be a good time to repost some stories that you might not have seen or have long since forgotten.  Like this one from 2017 (sure is good we were able to recover RRW when it was removed from the web last summer!): … Continue reading Memory Lane: Meatpackers Work Directly with ‘Religious’ Refugee Contractors

Major refugee resettlement agency in meltdown?

Sure sounds like it!  We reported here that we had heard rumblings, but Breitbart News yesterday has all the gory details from a reliable source close to the organization—Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service—headquartered in Baltimore, MD. Read the bombshell story by Michael Patrick Leahy here. ‘Source: Claims of Financial Mismanagement, Fraud, and Harassment at Lutheran … Continue reading Major refugee resettlement agency in meltdown?

Foreign-owned Big Meat hires Lutherans to help them find and retain refugee labor

That is the crux of this story and not in my wildest dreams did I think that money was directly changing hands between the meat industry and a federal refugee contractor, in this case Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service headquartered in Baltimore, MD. I always assumed it was an informal relationship where the largely federally-funded … Continue reading Foreign-owned Big Meat hires Lutherans to help them find and retain refugee labor