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"Lets Roll" <LetsRoll@Meet-Me-In-Hell.com> wrote in message
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> The local Hispanic community reacted to the news with a combination of
fear
> and resentment since they have constituted the majority of the estimated
> 2000 person workforce at Claxton Poultry for the past 10 years. Two plant
> workers were arrested by the Claxton Police Department last month and
> charged with felony fraud for using forged IDs. One former worker, who
asked
> not to be identified, stated that some of the plant's Hispanic employees
had
> used false or stolen social security numbers when they were hired at the
> plant and there is a fear among some longtime employees that more of them
> are now in danger of losing their jobs. " We have given our lives to this
> business," she said. "And now that they no longer need us, we'll just be
> thrown away." The worker said that her friends are angry because they
> believe the new Korean work force will be given preferential treatment
> because of their visa status.
>
> ***Note a lousy 10 years of identity theft and illegal employment
> constitutes to them having given their lives for something.  And they have
> the unmitigated gall to complain that someone will be given preferential
> treatment because they follow the rules!  Yet Mexicans have been allowed
to
> run amok for so long that they expect, DEMAND, preferential treatment for
> the simple reason that they routinely break all the rules!  While this
> development does not bode any good for Americans, it does my heart
> immeasurable good to see the Mexicans taking it in the ass for a change.
> Welcome to the slave auction blocks and unemployment lines you created in
> America, mojados!
>
> http://www.tell-n-sell.net/LaVoz/edicion%20actual/Locales/art2eng.htm
> Claxton Poultry To Hire Workers from Korea
>
>
> by John Newton
>
> The decision by one of Southeast Georgia's largest employers of Hispanic
> workers to contract with a major South Korean employment agency sent shock
> waves throughout the Hispanic community in and around Claxton, Georgia
> recently. Local newspapers reported that Claxton Poultry, Inc., located in
> Evans County, had arranged for the Kukjei agency to act as the
intermediary
> in relocating hundreds of Korean families to nearby Bulloch County, so
that
> they could work in the poultry processing facility. The lack of local
> housing and Evans county's inability to absorb hundreds of Korean school
> children were cited as reasons for their decision to house the Korean
> families in Statesboro. Press reports said that as many as 300 Korean
> families can be expected to relocate to the area by the end of the year.
>
> The local Hispanic community reacted to the news with a combination of
fear
> and resentment since they have constituted the majority of the estimated
> 2000 person workforce at Claxton Poultry for the past 10 years. Two plant
> workers were arrested by the Claxton Police Department last month and
> charged with felony fraud for using forged IDs. One former worker, who
asked
> not to be identified, stated that some of the plant's Hispanic employees
had
> used false or stolen social security numbers when they were hired at the
> plant and there is a fear among some longtime employees that more of them
> are now in danger of losing their jobs. " We have given our lives to this
> business," she said. "And now that they no longer need us, we'll just be
> thrown away." The worker said that her friends are angry because they
> believe the new Korean work force will be given preferential treatment
> because of their visa status.
>
> According to Kukjei spokesman, Simon Ahn, Claxton Poultry was looking to
> Korea for a more stable work force since the company has experienced a
high
> turnover rate with their local workforce in the past. His agency will help
> the Korean immigrants to find housing, get social security numbers and
> driver's licenses and buy furniture and cars. Under a special visa
program,
> Ahn said that the Korean immigrants would all qualify for permanent legal
> status in the U.S. after working at the poultry plant for one year. He
> further explained that most of these families were college educated
Koreans
> who were bringing as much as $200,000 in savings with them and they were
> willing to work at entry-level jobs in exchange for the chance to become
> U.S. citizens.
> Toby Spirer, a spokesman for Claxton Poultry, stressed that the program
was
> a "pilot program" that could be discontinued if it were unsuccessful in
> meeting company objectives and he said that the total number of workers to
> be hired were unknown at this time. "Previous press reports about the
number
> of Koreans who will participate in this guest worker program are wildly
> exaggerated," he said. "Claxton Poultry is an equal opportunity employer
and
> all hiring decisions are made without regard to race, religion, color, or
> creed. We have always welcomed anyone who is willing to work and we will
pay
> them competitive wages."
> Founded in 1959 by Savannah native, Norman Fries, Claxton Poultry
processes
> nearly 5 million pounds of meat each week and its logo featuring a smiling
> kid taking a bite out of a chicken leg is familiar to grocery shoppers
> throughout South Georgia. The company has received both national and local
> recognition for its efforts to be a " good neighbor" and has made
> substantial food and monetary contributions to the Hispanic community in
the
> past. La Voz plans to publish a more detailed story on this subject next
> month.
>
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