Less than one week after ICE raided 7 food processing facilities in Mississippi apprehending nearly 700 illegal workers, American citizens are rushing to freshly-available jobs.
Koch Foods is headquartered in Chicago but maintains a chicken processing facility in Mississippi that employed 243 of the 680 undocumented Latino workers arrested in the raids last Thursday. Koch has since collaborated with the Mississippi Department of Employment Security (MDES), holding a job fair to recruit new, legal, workers, according to the Associated Press.
The fair raked in 200 applications before noon, according to local media. The company says it will require applicants to present two forms of identification before being hired, according to CNN. MDES will also vet all Mississippi workers for legality using the state’s E-Verify system, according to USA Today.
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But I thought illegals were necessary to fill the jobs that Americans would not do?
ReplyDelete12:37 PM - The operative phrase was "Paid below scale."
ReplyDeleteI hear all the time "there are no jobs" yet there is always a "we are hiring" sign outside the chicken plant. I worked for four years at a chicken plant after high school. A few years back I was looking for a job and drove by Perdue. Stopped in and inquired. Was asked if I spoke Spanish ? I walked out. True story...
ReplyDeleteI've always said it the company's fault that hires illegals for less
ReplyDeleteGo figure.
ReplyDelete12:36 not true. Many have said that companies like Perdue and the rest are very bad companies and if they were moral people raised by good people they would be ashamed. Not only that what they sell and call chicken is putrid not fit for a rabid dogs last meal much less humans.
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