Tyson Foods Is Anti-American

"Tyson Foods BOYCOTTED as it sacks 1,300 staff at Iowa pork plant and offers 'job-and-lawyer' packages in bid to hire 42,000 asylum seekers in New York," reports the Daily Mail. 

    Tyson this week said it would shutter its pork plant in Perry, Iowa, this summer, putting 1,276 people out of work in a town of just 8,000.

    About half of the plant's workers are understood to be Latino, according to local news outlets.

    Last May, Tyson Foods closed two facilities in Virginia and Arkansas that employed more than 1,600 people. In April, it announced plans to cut 10 percent of corporate jobs and 15 percent of executives.

    Plants in North Little Rock, Arkansas; Corydon, Indiana; and Dexter and Noel, Missouri are set to end operations in the first half of 2024, following a 0.8 percent slump in the company's sales between 2022-2023.

    Tyson meanwhile has moved to hire more of the asylum seekers who headed to New York and other cities after entering the US, seeking to fill undesirable jobs amid a low unemployment rate of 3.9 percent.

    The meat-packer already employs about 42,000 immigrants among its 120,000-strong US workforce, and seeks to boost this by cooperating with the Tent Partnership for Refugees, a nonprofit, among other efforts.

    'We would like to employ another 42,000 if we could find them,' Garrett Dolan, who leads Tyson's social efforts, told Bloomberg recently.

    In recent weeks, the company hired dozens of asylum seekers from Venezuela, Mexico, and Colombia at a job fair in New York City. They travelled to work at its poultry plant in Humboldt, Tennessee.

    According to Dolan, asylum seekers fill the gaps at plants with a high turnover of staff — the company needs to fill 52,000 jobs this year.

    Executives offer pay starting at $16.50 an hour, with paid-for immigration lawyers and other perks. 

    A large portion of new hires 'are going to come from refugees and immigrants, so we're now in the business of strategically thinking that through,' Dolan said.

    Asylum seekers cannot work upon entering the US, and typically don't get permits until 180 days after they apply for legal status.

    Many wait for years before their first immigration court hearing to judge their asylum claim, during which time they can work.

    In a bid to help its migrant employees, Tyson has spent millions of dollars on immigration lawyers and offers paid time off to attend court hearings.

    Many also benefit from temporary housing, onsite childcare, transportation and English classes.

    Tyson in 2022 agreed to hire 2,500 refugees under the Tent program.

    The firm increased that last year by 150 hires, including 50 Afghan refugees to work in Arkansas, including in Fayetteville, Springdale, and Bentonville.

    The boycott underscores fears that Americans are losing jobs to economic migrants from overseas, who drive down blue collar wages.

    Data from US Bureau of Labor Statistics show that between July and August 2023, there was a staggering decrease of 1.2 million native-born people in the workforce.

    In stark contrast, some 688,000 jobs were secured by foreign-born workers, underlining the difference in President Joe Biden's pro-migration policies versus Donald Trump's tough border stance.