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Tyson hiring migrants while laying off US workers is the 'decimation of the American Dream': Top Republican
As Tyson Foods announced it is shuttering an Iowa pork factory that will lead to more than 1,000 lost jobs, the company reportedly met with and hired migrants in Manhattan for positions at a Tennessee plant.
After announcing it will join with the Tent Partnership for Refugees, staff from the poultry heavyweight engaged with asylum seekers at the New York office of Chobani yogurt, whose CEO Hamdi Ulukaya founded the charity.
At least 87 migrants from Central and South America were hired in two separate groups, according to Tribune News Service. The same report said Tyson employs about 42,000 immigrants and that the company’s corporate social responsibility executive said, “We would like to employ another 42,000 if we could find them.”
In response to the news, Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, said companies who lay off Americans while seeking foreign nationals for open positions should face congressional scrutiny.
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“We’re certainly going to look into whether we can change that [ability], assuming Tyson is operating legally,” Vance told “Jesse Watters Primetime” on Thursday.
“All we know is that they are firing American workers and hiring illegal aliens to replace them. This is the entire point of illegal immigration — and Republicans, we’ve got to hammer this point home.”
Vance argued the hiring of migrants or foreign nationals who are willing to work for lower pay than U.S. citizens both exacerbates the labor pool and suppresses wages for working-class families.
Host Jesse Watters noted how top Democrats have publicly spoken about the need for foreign nationals to take American jobs, pointing to House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., lamenting in January that “vegetables would rot in the ground if they weren’t being picked by many immigrants — many illegal immigrants.”
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Watters also cited Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s September 2022 comments asking why Florida would fly migrants out-of-state if farmers are purportedly clamoring for laborers.
In response to a “Jesse Watters Primetime” request for comment, a Tyson spokesperson said: “Tyson Foods is proud to employ a diverse workforce, including immigrants, all of whom are legally authorized to work in the United States… “
However, Vance suggested U.S. companies acting like Tyson Foods are not practicing true capitalism.
“That is not capitalism or a market economy. That is the decimation of the American middle class via illegal immigration, and it’s happening all over the country,” he said.
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Vance also faulted the Biden administration for, as he characterized it, making it easier to “pretend that economic migrants are asylum seekers.”
“This is the end of the American dream if we let this stuff happen. We’ve got to re-elect Donald Trump, and we’ve got to get congressional Republicans with some spine to push back against this stuff.”
In a statement to FOX Business on the shuttering of the Iowa factory, a Tyson spokesperson said the closure “emphasizes our focus to optimize the efficiency of our operations to best serve our customers.”
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Perry, Iowa, Mayor Dirk Cavanaugh told Reuters the Tyson plant was the largest employer in the area and that it would be “tough to figure out what to do without them.”
The migrants hired in New York will reportedly go to work at the Tyson plant in Humboldt, Tenn.
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Another commissioner is leaving the Social Development Commission board, as leaders continue to work on a restructuring plan, SDC attorney William Sulton said Friday.
Sulton said Serina Chavez, who was elected to represent SDC’s District 5 and serves as the board’s secretary, indicated that she planned to resign at the Board of Commissioners meeting Thursday at the African American Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin, 1920 N. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
He received her official resignation on Friday.
“She indicates in her correspondence that essentially that the work that’s necessary is beyond what she is able to commit,” Sulton said.
Chavez’s resignation follows the departure of four board members, including former board chair Elmer Moore Jr., since SDC suspended operations and laid off its employees in late April.
The all-volunteer board has met frequently since the spring to sort through new information and work on a plan to reopen SDC, handling its day-to-day operations.
Most of Thursday’s board meeting was spent in closed session.
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Meredith Melland is the neighborhoods reporter for the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service and a corps member of Report for America, a national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues and communities. Report for America plays no role in editorial decisions in the NNS newsroom.
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Davide Harabagiu highlighted night 3 of competition in Minneapolis swimming to a 52.95 in the 100 butterfly. That was just off his personal best of a 52.75 from Settecolli in Rome last month. Harabagiu swims collegiately for Minnesota but originally hails from Italy.
Also highlighting the night was Annike Parkhe who swam to a 58.85 in the 100 fly, the only swimming under the 1:00 mark. Parkhe has a best time of a 58.58 that she swam for 13th during prelims of US Olympic Trials last month. She finished 16th in semifinals in a 59.02.
Finishing behind Parkhe in the 100 fly was Grace Rabb who swam a 1:00.28. Later in the session, Rabb earned a win touching in a 2:32.69 in the 200 breast. Rabb, a Florida commit, swam a best time in the 100 fly as her previous best was a 1:01.36. Her 200 breast best time stands at a 2:32.39 from May.
The final winner on the women’s side was Katie McCarthy who won the 400 free in a 4:15.81. McCarthy was 34th in the event at US Trials in a 4:14.90 and has a best time of a 4:14.89.
The men’s 400 free was a battle as Jiarui Xue earned the win in a 3:59.16 touching just ahead of Chase Maier who swam a 3:59.24. Xue has a best time of a 3:59.00 and is committed to Princeton while Maier dropped a huge best time as his previous best was a 4:05.01.
Sirui Wang won the 200 breast in a 2:17.24, almost a five second drop from his previous best of a 2:22.05 from May. He was a 2:22.65 in the event at the last summer.
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A police officer was injured in a shooting on the city’s far east side Friday night.
Police said the immediate area around the shooting is not safe and residents are asked to stay inside their homes and avoid the area. Anyone with information or video footage is asked to call 911.
Few details were immediately available, but police said the event started unfolding about 8:30 p.m. in the 3600 block of North Wittfield Street, near the intersection of East 36th Street and North Post Road in the city’s Northeastwood neighborhood. Online police reports indicate the shooting happened after officers responded to the area on a “shots fired” call.
The officer is listed in stable condition, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police said in a post on X, formally Twitter.
People can expect a “large police presence” in the neighborhood for a “significant” amount of time. Police have K-9s in the area searching for potential suspects.
“Officers are actively canvassing and we’re asking people to avoid the area for their own safety,” said Capt. Shane Foley.
Police have not released a description of the suspect in the shooting.
“There’s a lot that we don’t know about this incident. And we’re hopeful that we will learn more later on,” Foley said.
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This is the second time this year an Indianapolis police officer has been shot. In March an off-duty officer working security at an east side bar on East Washington Street was hit in an exchange of gunfire with at least one suspect. A man who was injured in that shooting died at a local hospital.
The bar where that shooting happened, 11:11 Bar & Grille, located at 9439 E. Washington St., was closed by unanimous vote of the Indiana Alcohol & Tobacco Commission.
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