Recently they held a meeting to discuss the Paris terrorist attack.
13% of the population of Barron, Wisconsin is Somali. Jenny-O meatpacking plant is the attraction. http://www.globalgiving.org/microprojects/cultural-literacy-for-somali-in-wisconsin/
Just hours after a terrorist group’s attack on a satirical newspaper in Paris last month, nine future teachers sat with a group of Somali community elders in Minneapolis discussing the relationship between Islam and terrorism.
The immersion program was designed for new teachers because of the growth in the Somali population in Minnesota and Wisconsin:
“This immersion experience offers unparalleled opportunities for pre-service teachers to broaden their worldviews and develop culturally relevant competenciesthat they will need to be effective and ethical teachers in today’s public school system,” said Dr. Aram deKoven, an associate professor of education studies who helps organize and lead the Somali Domestic Intercultural Immersion experience.
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The Somali immersion experience is a comprehensive educational program that combines more than 24 hours of classroom-based instruction, a weeklong, full-day field placement in specially selected schools that serve primary Somali youth, and daily excursions in and around the Somali community in the Twin Cities.
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In the weeks leading up to the school immersion, students hear lectures on Somali history, traditions, customs, migrations and conflicts.
There is nothing earth-shattering in this article from MPR News, but it’s just further evidence of the role the meatpacking industry is playing in changing towns in America’s heartland with its avaricious desire for cheap labor—refugee labor! (Remember Senator Sessions called the meatpackers out here last year as a driving force behind amnesty).
We have been following this topic for going on seven years first brought to our attention by the turmoil created by Somali workers demanding workplace accommodation for their ‘religious’ requirements. We have an entire category entitled, Greeley/Swift/Somali controversy, where we archived posts on the topic.
But, you know what is really funny (sort of) is that the meatpackers apparently got sick of the Somali workers in some places and must have asked the US State Department (and their contractors***) for some more docile workers like these Burmese Karen Christians or the mostly Hindu Bhutanese refugees we have been bringing in ever since Bush “welcomed” them in 2007.
The refugees are basically cheap, legal, captive laborers which you subsidize through the myriad social services they receive (see our fact sheetfor the list of welfare programs open to refugees).
The largest employer in Austin, MN, Hormel and Quality Pork. Photo from a NYT article in 2008 about a mystery illness there. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/health/05pork.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
St. Paul is home to the largest Karen population in the country. But in recent years, Austin has attracted hundreds of the Karen and Karenni people.
Austin, a meatpacking town that has seen big demographic changes in the last few decades, started attracting workers from Mexico and Latin America in the early 1990s, followed by a wave of African immigrants. [The meatpackers used illegal labor from south of the border until the feds clamped down and then they discovered refugee labor thanks to Bill Clinton—ed]
The city’s growing Karen population is the first influx of minorities that has not been Latino or African, and the change has come fast.
According to the city’s Welcome Center, the number of Karen and Karenni residents in Austin nearly tripled to 1,224 this year, up from 463 in 2012. Driven out of their long-adopted home of Myanmar to camps in Thailand, the members of the two groups are flowing to the United States as refugees.
That means they can work legally, and some have replaced other immigrants at workplaces like Austin’s Hormel and Quality Pork processing plants,Austin schools superintendent David Krenz said.
Of course this massive plant in Austin would not have had Somali workers in the first place! (Pork of course!).
The Minnesota resettlement agencies affiliated with the federal government are listed here. They are subcontractors of the big Volags below. BTW, they call themselves Voluntary Agencies (Volags), but that is an obvious misnomer as most are nearly completely funded by tax dollars.
Judy brought my attention to a good piece by Byron York this week in the Washington Examiner in which York describes a pro-immigration forum in DC, with both parties represented. The majority of the participants were overwhelmingly in support of more cheap migrant labor.
They were discussing visas for low-skilled workers, but they might as well have been discussing refugee resettlement as well.
Follow the money!
Haley Barbour speaking for ‘big meat’: We need those un-skilled laborers in our Mississippi chicken plants so the companies can keep the wages low.
If you are a long-time reader, you know that years ago we established that meatpackers are one of the principle drivers of refugee resettlement in this country. They get cheap captive legal laborers (captive because they can’t easily go home) and then you, the taxpayer, supply many of their other needs through generous welfare!
Type ‘meatpacker’ or ‘meat packer’ into our search function for at least 50 posts on the topic. One of my all-time favorites is Bill Clinton supplying Bosnian laborers to his benefactors in Iowa, here.
And, here, Senator Jeff Sessions calls out the meatpackers as a driving force for amnesty.
Here is Byron York telling us about the lopsided forum.
One of two critics of mass immigration in attendance, Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, pointed out that chicken plants, which Republican poobah Haley Barbour said needed cheap migrant labor in his home state of Mississippi, could use mechanization as in some other states and thus have less need for low-wage workers. Of course, one other option is for meat packers to PAY MORE and get American workers.
Frankly, it isn’t cheap chicken if we are paying for the ‘social services’ to supplement the low-income workers’ families.
LAWRENCE, Kan (WIBW) The University of Kansas is breaking new ground in the language training department.
Responding to the sunflower state’s increasing Somali speaking population, KU will soon be one of the first universities in the country to provide language training in somali.
Several thousand Somali speakers live in southwest Kansas and more than 5,000 Somali immigrants are currently in Kansas City.
An elementary Somali language class will be offered at the summer African language institute.
A more advanced Somali language classes will be taught in the fall and spring.
Somali overload in Greeley and Fort Morgan, Colorado is sending Somalis on a northward migration to settle in Wyoming according to good reporting from the Wyoming Tribune Eagle which I blasted the other day here for a careless hate-filled editorial accusing critics of Gov. Matt Mead’s plan“bigots”. This is the type of reporting (sans maudlin sob stories) and the facts they should be gathering before spewing out ill-informed editorials.
One fact that they need to pursue, however, in light of this article which I was sure was going to lead to—this is why we need to have a refugee resettlement program in Wyoming—is that if Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains, sets up shop in Wyoming, they will be bringing new refugees from Africa, Iraq, Iran and countries in Asia directly to Wyoming. The federal contractors do not take care of secondary migrants, like these Somalis in Cheyenne, who have been here for months or years. They are like anyone else who moves from one state to another and should not require special “services.”
Ask the folks in St. Cloud, Minnesotahow the Somali population expanded there at the same time the Lutheran’s opened their federally-funded office. Be sure to talk to the Mayor of Lewiston, Maine(the Somali capital of New England) too about what happened to them when the Somalis, resettled originally in Georgia, discovered the “services” Maine had to offer. The word “services” is, of course, the sanitized word for “welfare goodies.”
Keep in mind as you read this article that the meat packers (often foreign-owned companies) get cheap captive laborers and you, the American taxpayer, supports the rest of the refugee family’s life!
By the way, US Senator Jeff Sessions called out the meat packers as being among the chief lobbyists for amnesty, here.
Now to the story with an attractive and apparently likeable Somali refugee (with an African sob story history,why is that our problem?) as the star of the article (LOL! this must be J-school 101—start out with a sympathetic character to warm-up readers).
Abdirashid Noor has moved from Colorado to Cheyenne, Wyoming
CHEYENNE — While Wyoming might be the only state in the country without an official refugee resettlement program, that doesn’t mean there aren’t former refugees living in the Cowboy State.
There are dozens, perhaps even several hundred, former refugees living in the Capital City alone.
Many of these people, like Abdirashid Noor, are from the war-torn east African nation of Somalia.
Read the many paragraphs about the hell hole that is East Africa.
Noor’s life changed forever in 2007 when he was accepted into the University of Northern Colorado.
Be sure to go back and read the interesting history I posted just a few weeks ago about Greeley, CO and the Univ. of Northern Colorado’s role in the history of modern day Islamic extremism.
The Tribune Eagle story continues! The migration is on……
Greeley connection
Noor came to Greeley, Colorado, to study accounting at UNC. As fate would have it, when he arrived, he found that the city was home to a growing Somali community.
Unlike Noor, the majority of Somalis in Greeley did not come to attend the university -n they came to work in a nearby meat packing facility operated by the Brazilian meat-processing company JBS.
“When people come into this country and they don’t know the language, they have a lot of issues getting jobs,” Noor said.
“If you can’t communicate with other people and you can’t understand what other people are saying, they aren’t going to hire you.
“So the only area where people from east Africa or Somalia get hired is JBS or another meat plant. They don’t require communication skills as long as you can do the work,” he said.
Because jobs at the meat plant are typically low-paying, many of the Somali employees in Greeley rely on government subsidized housing programs like Section 8.
As the Somali population in Greeley grew, so did the waiting lists for programs like Section 8.
Colette West, co-executive director of the Global Refugee Center in Greeley, said the waiting list for housing subsidies in Colorado can be as long as three years. [That means needy Americans wait too!—ed]
Noor and many others in Greeley’s Somali community began looking north to Cheyenne for affordable housing options.
Mike Stanfield, executive director of the Cheyenne Housing Authority, said, “Some folks (in Colorado) found out the waiting list (for subsidized housing programs) was still open (in Cheyenne) and they came up here and applied.”
According to Noor, many of the people in Cheyenne’s Somali community commute to Greeley to work in the meat plant. Others, he said, have taken jobs here in places like the Wal-Mart Distribution Center west of town.
“Navigating through the system” means they need people in-the-know to direct them to all of the available social services—housing, healthcare, food stamps, interpreters, education for the kids and other GOVERNMENT assistance!
In places like Greeley, where Somali communities have existed for years, there is a system in place to help new immigrants gain access to services and educational programs. But because the Somali community here is newer, those services are sometimes harder to find in Cheyenne.
“They are going to need help navigating all the systems,” West said. “It’s very hard when you don’t speak the language.”
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And as the city’s Somali population grows, so will the need for services.
So, someone like Noor will be paid with taxpayer dollars to be sure to get his fellow countrymen on the taxpayer- funded “social services” roster in Laramie County, Wyoming!
For ambitious readers, we have 90 previous postsin a category entitled ‘Greeley/Swift/Somali controversy’ going back at least 5 years.
