Image Credit: Governor Lee, along with other Tennessee elected officials at the opening of the Tyson facility in Humboldt, Tennessee that includes a processing plant, feed mill and hatchery. Image Credit: tysonfoods.com
The Tennessee Conservative [By Paula Gomes] –
Tyson Foods is looking to hire thousands of “refugees” and bring them to work in Tennessee, all while axing jobs for Americans across the United States.
Not only is the world’s second-largest meat processor hiring those waiting on asylum hearings – a process that takes anywhere from five to seven years – but they are offering incentives for those willing to work in Humboldt, the Tennessee plant that Tyson opened three years ago.
These incentives include stipends for temporary housing and relocation expenses, time off to “acclimate” to the area, child care on-site, transportation, and Paid Time Off for immigration court hearings.
According to the company, Tyson has partnered with an organization called Tent Partnership for Refugees, committing to hire 2,500 people yet to have permanent legal status in the United States.
However last week, Bloomberg reported that Tyson was looking to employ tens of thousands more. The company already employs 42,000 immigrants and Human Resource Leader Garrett Dolan reportedly said, “We would like to employ another 42,000 if we could find them.”
According to Bloomberg, Tyson officials hired seventeen asylum seekers for it’s Humboldt plant – hailing from Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela – in February after meeting with some of them in New York. They later hired seventy more.
Because United States authorities cannot keep up with the flood of illegal aliens entering at the southwest border claims of asylum from illegal immigrants that may be weak or baseless are not immediately screened and instead these “refugees” are let in, and given the ability to work legally while they go through the asylum process. In the last ten years, most who enter illegally and express fear are able to pass an initial screening, sending their cases on to U.S. immigration courts. Out of those, maybe twenty percent end up actually being granted U.S. asylum.
Tyson aims to retain their immigrant workforce having pledged $1.5 million in legal aid both last year and this year.
While the company seeks to hire more immigrants long-term, six plants have been shut down over the last year. The most recent closure to be announced affects a plant in Perry, Iowa employing over a thousand workers. In a town of eight thousand, the plant’s closure is sure to negatively impact the local economy.
Tyson has said that such closures are completely unrelated to the Tent program and hiring immigrants.
Tyson is hardly the only big-name brand working with the Tent program to welcome illegal aliens into their companies as paid workers, workers who are statistically likely to fail to prove their cases in court. A list of members of other companies can be found HERE.
About the Author: Paula Gomes is a Tennessee resident and reporter for The Tennessee Conservative.
You can reach Paula at paula@tennesseeconservativenews.com.