Tyson Foods Loves Immigrants!
Corporations Love Immigrants. We have tried to tell you that for years, but many of you refuse to listen and understand that there are some jobs that Americans simply refuse to do. Working in a field and picking produce is one example. Working in a meat/poultry processing plant is another. These are backbreaking jobs.
There is a labor shortage for these jobs. So please stop with your anti-immigrant hate, especially for those who perform jobs that you refuse or are physically unable to do.
Are you familiar with Tyson Foods? Tyson Foods is one of the top four meat companies in the US, selling one out of every five pounds of beef, pork, and chicken eaten by American consumers. The company has been family-run ever since it was founded in 1931, with chairman John H. Tyson — grandson of founder John W. They also own Jimmy Dean Foods.
The latest from Scripps News:
Tyson Foods wants to hire 52,000 asylum seekers for factory jobs.
The food processing company wants to hire migrants who are arriving in New York for jobs Americans don't want.
New York City shelters are overwhelmed with migrants.
Many of them have arrived in Texas or Florida and then taken buses to New York, where shelter and benefits are guaranteed. However, the city is scrambling as the number continues to climb and the migrants look to build a new life in America, which includes housing and work.
But for companies like Tyson Foods Inc., struggling to fill unpopular jobs with a U.S. unemployment rate of 3.9%, this new population presents an alluring opportunity.
The food processing company wants to hire 52,000 asylum seekers for factory jobs, offering a starting wage of $16.50 per hour along with benefits. The company understands and is aware that these are jobs that many find unpleasant, such as washing meat, placing the cuts into trays, final inspections for bones and packing meat, but believe this will help the refugees to start a life in America.
For example, the company says that it has allocated $1.5 million a year for legal aid services and will be providing its new employees with temporary housing, on-site child care, transportation, a relocation stipend, and paid time off to attend court hearings and to adjust to their new homes.
The company joined forces with the nonprofit Tent Partnership for Refugees, a network of over 400 major companies committed to helping refugees find jobs, with the plan to hire as many people as possible from the more than 180,000 asylum seekers that have come through New York City’s shelter system. Tyson, for example, already employs about 42,000 immigrants.
According to an Economic Policy Institute analysis of federal data, about 50% of the labor market’s recent growth came from foreign-born workers between January 2023 and January 2024.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said last week that immigration and labor participation contributed to economic strength.
"The immigration that we saw was a notable factor of 2023 and 2024 economic outcomes, and of course we're aware of that, and it plays a role in our way of thinking about economic policy and in the path of the economy," Powell said.
While asylum seekers are not authorized to work as soon as they arrive in the U.S., they are expected to apply for asylum within the first year of their arrival and can receive a work permit 180 days after submitting the application. However, because of immigration backlogs, it’s taking some people longer.
So far this year, Tyson says they have hired 87 migrants from New York.
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Do you support the US economy? Of course you do. Everyone wants our economy to be strong. So you can help by contacting your elected officials and demand that they fund additional judges so that immigrants seeking asylum can have their case heard in a court of law, and their fate determined, and provide the necessary resources to improve the process, so these people allowed into the country, can fill the jobs that you don't want.
There is a labor shortage for these jobs. So please stop with your anti-immigrant hate, especially for those who perform jobs that you refuse or are physically unable to do.
Are you familiar with Tyson Foods? Tyson Foods is one of the top four meat companies in the US, selling one out of every five pounds of beef, pork, and chicken eaten by American consumers. The company has been family-run ever since it was founded in 1931, with chairman John H. Tyson — grandson of founder John W. They also own Jimmy Dean Foods.
The latest from Scripps News:
Tyson Foods wants to hire 52,000 asylum seekers for factory jobs.
The food processing company wants to hire migrants who are arriving in New York for jobs Americans don't want.
New York City shelters are overwhelmed with migrants.
Many of them have arrived in Texas or Florida and then taken buses to New York, where shelter and benefits are guaranteed. However, the city is scrambling as the number continues to climb and the migrants look to build a new life in America, which includes housing and work.
But for companies like Tyson Foods Inc., struggling to fill unpopular jobs with a U.S. unemployment rate of 3.9%, this new population presents an alluring opportunity.
The food processing company wants to hire 52,000 asylum seekers for factory jobs, offering a starting wage of $16.50 per hour along with benefits. The company understands and is aware that these are jobs that many find unpleasant, such as washing meat, placing the cuts into trays, final inspections for bones and packing meat, but believe this will help the refugees to start a life in America.
For example, the company says that it has allocated $1.5 million a year for legal aid services and will be providing its new employees with temporary housing, on-site child care, transportation, a relocation stipend, and paid time off to attend court hearings and to adjust to their new homes.
The company joined forces with the nonprofit Tent Partnership for Refugees, a network of over 400 major companies committed to helping refugees find jobs, with the plan to hire as many people as possible from the more than 180,000 asylum seekers that have come through New York City’s shelter system. Tyson, for example, already employs about 42,000 immigrants.
According to an Economic Policy Institute analysis of federal data, about 50% of the labor market’s recent growth came from foreign-born workers between January 2023 and January 2024.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said last week that immigration and labor participation contributed to economic strength.
"The immigration that we saw was a notable factor of 2023 and 2024 economic outcomes, and of course we're aware of that, and it plays a role in our way of thinking about economic policy and in the path of the economy," Powell said.
While asylum seekers are not authorized to work as soon as they arrive in the U.S., they are expected to apply for asylum within the first year of their arrival and can receive a work permit 180 days after submitting the application. However, because of immigration backlogs, it’s taking some people longer.
So far this year, Tyson says they have hired 87 migrants from New York.
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Do you support the US economy? Of course you do. Everyone wants our economy to be strong. So you can help by contacting your elected officials and demand that they fund additional judges so that immigrants seeking asylum can have their case heard in a court of law, and their fate determined, and provide the necessary resources to improve the process, so these people allowed into the country, can fill the jobs that you don't want.
