Sat 25 Nov 2006
When the feds did a crackdown in Stillmore, GA, we heard a lot about the people leaving town to avoid the sweep. If you remember, the raid was centered around illegal workers at the local chicken processing plant.
But what’s the real follow-on to the illegal workers leaving the area. today’s AJC reports that while the overall workforce is not up to pre-raid numbers yet, there are workers willing to work at the Crider Poultry plant in Stillmore, GA. (That’s not to mention that wages have been increased as well!).
It seems that some of the workers are felons on probation and homeless men who have now found gainful employment at the plant. I guess that there are some Americans willing to do those jobs.
And what’s happened to those who fled the immigration raids?:
Pastor Ariel Rodriguez drives around Stillmore, explaining what happened to each of the Mexican families that used to live in trailers and apartments.
“The majority of people have gone to Kentucky,” he said. They knew a priest who used to live in the area and followed him up there, Rodriguez said. Other residents have gone back to Mexico.
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November 26th, 2006 at 6:24 pm
There is another post about this on another weblog where they show how the newspapers slanted the news coverage about the Georgia chicken plant.
http://frontpage.americandaughter.com/?p=990
December 14th, 2006 at 9:48 am
[…] You see, back in September, the ICE raided workers working at Crider Poultry in Stillmore, GA. The result was that some illegal workers (who previously had been warned that there were discrepancies in their documentation, by the way) were taken in custody and others fled the area. That caused much hand-wringing in response. then last month, we heard that there were, in fact, workers willing “to do the jobs that Americans won’t do” in the plants, including felons on probation and homeless men who have now found gainful employment at the plant. […]