Harrisonburg, Virginia: Perdue
admits that they are hiring locally as refugee arrival numbers ‘plummet’, by
Ann Corcoran 3/29/18
When
I saw this story yesterday at WMRA Radio , I figured it was one more of dozens of stories I
mentioned here and here recently.
Talking points have obviously gone out to the gullible/biased media about the
mean Trump Administration and its plummeting refugee admission numbers. I
wasn’t going to bother posting it until I came to the juicy bit near the end.
Forget the humanitarian mumbo-jumbo, refugee resettlement is about
finding cheap labor (supported with your tax dollars) for big corporations
especially BIG MEAT and BIG CHICKEN! And, the next time you hear about
the bipartisan support for the UN/US Refugee Admissions Program remember the
R’s are looking for laborers for their big business pals and Chamber of
Commerce lobbyists.
BIG CHICKEN companies like Perdue are
being questioned about working conditions in plants around the country.
And, Church World Service brings them more refugee workers! Photo and
story: https://news.vice.com/article/chicken-industry-workers-wear-diapers-because-bosses-allow-no-breaks-ngo-says
From WMRA
Radio: But
last month, a Perdue spokesman confirmed that refugee applicants to the
Bridgewater plant have dwindled significantly, and that the company is
filling positions from the local community.
Before
I give you the rest of the story, you should know that Harrisonburg is in the
heart of House Judiciary Chairman
Bob Goodlatte’s district.
The Judiciary Committee is responsible for the Refugee Admissions Program. I’d
like to know if Perdue is the reason Goodlatte has never made any significant
move to reform the refugee program!
Now
here is the rest of the boo-hoo story. At least WMRA Radio tells
listeners that Church
World Service is being paid by the feds (by you!) for
their ‘religious’ charity!
Trump’s Policy Sharply Reduces
Refugee Flow to Harrisonburg
Following
President Trump’s decision to sharply restrict the number of refugees allowed
into the United States, the State Department has informed refugee resettlement
offices nationwide to trim operations or even close. One of those offices is in
Harrisonburg, which has a long history of refugee resettlement.
Harrisonburg’s
general open-mindedness, low cost of living and high employment in industries that
don’t demand English, such as food production, have allowed the city to
resettle from 175 to 200 refugees every year.
But
the feds recently informed some 40 refugee resettlement offices nationwide to
cut back their operations, according to Reuters. Twenty are expected to close.
Jim
Hershberger runs the resettlement office for Church World Service in
Harrisonburg. Church
World Service is one of nine agencies nationwide that contracts with the
federal government to resettle refugees. He says ten branches
of those agencies nationwide have already closed. Although there are no plans
for the Harrisonburg office to close as of yet, it hasn’t had a single refugee
arrival in two months since mid-February.
I am worried that we won’t have the money to continue to offer services
to refugees like we like to do. [How about doing the hard work of raising
PRIVATE money!—-ed]
Church World Service is funded by the federal government to help recent arrivals find jobs
and apartments, and to enroll them in English classes, driving classes, and
their children into school.
In fact, according to our most recent accounting, Church World Service
is 71% funded out of your taxpayer wallets! Here
it comes! Slaughterhouse workers needed!
WMRA
Radio continues…..The
changes are being felt at the poultry plants too. Poultry is a big industry in
Rockingham County and long considered a pipeline for immigrants and
refugees.
Perdue’s Kenneth Lambert. It’s a great
business model for Perdue. Federally-funded Church World Service finds them
workers and the taxpayers subsidize the other needs of refugee workers with
food stamps, low income housing, medical care, etc.
Two
years ago, the workforce at the Perdue plant in Bridgewater was 42 percent
immigrant, according to its Director of Operations Kenneth Lambert. Our countries are made up of Mexico, El
Salvador, Guatamala, Honduras, Cuba, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Iraq, Syria,
Somalia, Bosnia, Russia, Kenya and right now we have a couple of people from
Uganda.
But last month, a Perdue spokesman confirmed that refugee applicants to
the Bridgewater plant have dwindled significantly, and that the company is
filling positions from the local community.
No comment from school officials regarding the refugee slowdown.
Gee, I wonder why?
Fewer refugee arrivals may impact local schools as well. It’s really where the city’s status as a
melting pot comes to life. Students in city public schools come from 51 foreign
countries and speak more than 56 languages.
Because
Harrisonburg High has long been overcrowded, plans are underway for a second
high school. But when asked if fewer refugees arrivals have eased the
overcrowding, school administrators didn’t want to comment.
Next up: Catholic Bishops (big business
headhunters) whine too! These are the nine supposed non-profit groups (LOL! Six
are ‘religious charities’) that act as headhunters for big business which
welcomes the cheap, compliant labor (refugees can’t go home and don’t know how
to complain!).
The
number in parenthesis is the percentage of the nine VOLAGs’ income paid by you (the
taxpayer) to place the refugees, line them up with jobs, and get them signed up
for their services! From
most recent accounting, here.
Ethiopian
Community Development Council (ECDC) (secular) (93%)
International
Rescue Committee (IRC) (secular) (66.5%)
US
Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) (secular) (98%)
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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