Those Ice Raids of the Chicken Plant turned out to be great for Americans
 

gringogirl wrote:
> G R E A T News
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> from Rick Hickey
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> What happens when a State enforces Immigration Law & I.C.E. does their
> job?
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> Americans get to WORK! & The ECONOMY gets better.
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> Two months ago ICE raided a Chicken Plant and took away 700 Illegal
> Aliens. Since then, HOMELESS people are Working and given help to get a
> place and utilities turned on (instead of Illegal Aliens getting a
> place, like Colonial Libertad in Salem). NOW they are no longer
> Homeless. Black people are moving in to WORK. American Criminals are
> earning their way, instead of lifting weights. Company is forced to
> INCREASE PAY & enjoys lower TURNOVER.
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> And the Illegals are going home at THEIR EXPENSE, Not ours!
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> Show this to every Politician that you can, this is PROOF
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> that the policy of Attrition through Enforcement works.
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> Can't wait to read the School report on how much SMALLER the CLASSROOMS
> are now.
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> Rick Hickey-VP-OFIR.
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> From: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Nov. 26, 2006
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> http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/met...stillmore.html
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> Homeless, felons help fill poultry jobs
> South Georgia plant labors after immigration raid loss
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> Stillmore €€� Felons on probation and homeless men have filled
> some of the poultry jobs left by illegal Mexican laborers deported in
> raids two months ago.
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> About 40 convicted felons from the Macon Diversion Center are bused in
> each day to work at the Crider Poultry plant in Stillmore €€� the
> focus of the raids.
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> Additionally, 16 men from the Garden City Rescue Mission in Augusta
> have come to work in the plant. Several from the mission have become
> shift leaders, said Lavond Reynolds, director of men's housing for the
> mission.
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> "Compared to the attrition rate [at the plant] in general, these guys
> have really stuck so far," Reynolds said. The mission might send
> another 15 soon.
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> Still, that's just a drop in the bucket. The Crider plant is operating
> at about 450 employees €€� less than half its preraid level of
> 1,000, company president David Purtle said.
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> The Mexican population in Stillmore has plummeted since immigration
> officials first visited the Crider plant in May, town residents said.
> Immigration agents estimated that 700 workers were using fraudulent
> IDs. The company began checking documents and confronting employees.
> Many were fired and hundreds of illegal immigrants left town on their
> own throughout the summer.
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> Then, over Labor Day, federal agents rounded up and deported more than
> 125 illegal immigrants working at the Crider plant or living in Emanuel
> and surrounding counties.
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> That left Crider with a big labor gap, and finding workers to fill the
> jobs has been a challenge. Among the efforts and changes at the plant
> since the raids:
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> €¢The company outsourced 250 jobs in its raw deboning operation to
> Alabama .
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> €¢Some processing has slowed because of the downturn in the work
> force.
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> €¢Crider has turned to an outside company to hire about 100
> workers to clean the plant each night.
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> €¢The company raised starting wages by about 40 cents and now
> offers attendance bonuses to new hires. Before, it took a year to be
> eligible for the extra pay. (Starting base pay is $6 an hour; most
> workers earn more through bonuses and overtime.)
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> €¢The company is spending more on hiring and training as turnover
> is high among new employees.
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> For instance, Crider advanced money to house the homeless men from the
> mission in trailers and to turn on their utilities. The company also
> pays to bus state probationers from Macon each day and is busing
> workers from surrounding communities.
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> Purtle said about 50 percent of applicants since the raids either did
> not pass the drug test or reference checks. Many of those who did have
> poor attendance or quit quickly.
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> "Our challenge is €€� in hiring unskilled people €€� their
> ability to understand what's expected of them," Purtle said.
> "Attendance is important. No acting up, no mouthing off. They just
> haven't learned."
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> The raids not only affected the chicken plant, but the surrounding
> community.
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> At least two landlords near Stillmore who rented to immigrants have put
> their properties up for sale. The Hispanic-run stores in town are
> operating at reduced hours.
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> "There's no people anymore," said Liliana Santos, 24, the clerk behind
> the counter at Salinas Surcusal No. 2 in downtown Stillmore.
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> "They don't have any jobs," she said in Spanish.
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> "Before, people would be walking around downtown," said Manuel Mendoza,
> 22, who stopped to buy tortillas. The store's jukebox played Mariachi
> music to an empty sideroom pool hall.
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> Mendoza has been in the United States 10 years and says he has a Social
> Security card and a job making pallets for $8.50 an hour. His hometown
> of Oaxaca , Mexico , has descended into anarchy with armed fighting in
> the streets, and he is in no hurry to return home.
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> Pastor Ariel Rodriguez drives around Stillmore, explaining what
> happened to each of the Mexican families that used to live in trailers
> and apartments.
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> "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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> At least one local businessman said his business has gone up since the
> raids. The churn of new folks applying and working at Crider has
> brought new customers to Mighty Mike's Hot Stop gas station and
> convenience store in town.
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> "They come in here and shop," said manager Willie Gordon. "Our inside
> sales have gone up $3,000 per week since the raids."
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> It's been a mixture of new clientele. But Gordon, who is
> African-American, attributes a good part of the increase to more black
> workers coming into town. Gordon notes: "You gotta be legal now."

Remove the 20 million illegal aliens and a great economic boom would
begin. And think of the savings in law enforcement and welfare.

ted