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    Africans Relocate to Alabama to Fill Jobs After Immigration Law

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    Africans Relocate to Alabama to Fill Jobs After Immigration Law

    By Margaret Newkirk and Gigi Douban on September 24, 2012

    Esene Manga, an Eritrean refugee living in Atlanta, hadn’t heard of Albertville, Alabama until a recruiter offered him a job there. Now Manga, 22, earns $10.85 an hour cutting chicken breasts on a poultry-plant night shift, an unexpected beneficiary of a year-old law designed to drive out illegal Hispanic immigrants.

    This isn’t what the law’s backers said would happen. Republican state Senator Scott Beason, a sponsor, said at a news conference last year that the restrictions on undocumented workers would “put thousands of native Alabamians back in the work force.”

    Instead, it caused a labor shortage that resulted in the importation of hundreds of legal African and Haitian refugees, and Puerto Ricans, according to interviews with workers, advocacy organizations and businesses. Most were recruited by the poultry industry, in a segment of the economy that has been a heavy employer of undocumented workers, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, a Washington research group.

    Alabama is one of five states that last year passed immigration laws modeled on a 2010 Arizona measure largely invalidated by the U.S. Supreme Court in June. Last month, an appellate court in Atlanta said many of the Alabama law’s requirements also aren’t constitutional.

    Other provisions, including one allowing police to arrest suspected illegal immigrants, remain in place.

    Africans Relocate to Alabama to Fill Jobs After Immigration Law - Businessweek
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    I wonder how well these new African blacks will get along with American blacks as they typically do not like one another.
    Hmmm. . .if*Americans are so racist, why do so many*people want to live*here??* One would think we wouild need border walls to keep them here under racist rule rather than building walls to keep them out!

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    Margaret Newkirk and Gigi Douban of Bloomberg News really had to bend this one to get it to read pro illegal alien/immigrant and play the race card for Obama at the same time.

    The law applies to all illegal aliens in the State of Alabama, not just Hispanic ones.

    an unexpected beneficiary of a year-old law designed to drive out illegal Hispanic immigrants.

    Instead, it caused a labor shortage that resulted in the importation of hundreds of legal African and Haitian refugees, and Puerto Ricans,
    Hundreds of workers?. Thousands of people are now working legally in Alabama and the the official unemployment numbers have gone down. With legal workers taking jobs that require reporting, revenue is up for things like Social Security (FICA), and State revenues that pay for the infrastructure and education system. Illegal aliens tend to want to work for cash under the table and send the money that should be paid in taxes back "home".

    Legal Africans that went to a job fair in Atlanta and Haitian refugees, that are in the country legally, have every right to be recruited for jobs. The last time I checked Puerto Rico was a US territory and Puerto Ricans are US citizens most, if not all, of which are Hispanic.

    Puerto Ricans have been one of the largest numbers of US citizens that are victims ID theft. It has gotten so bad that Puerto Rico had to re-issue birth certificates because they have been targeted by illegal aliens that come from South America but this article doesn't mention that little problem It does make me a little suspicious that those Puerto Ricans aren't really Puerto Ricans and should be looked at a little more closely.

    Bloomberg News chose to run this drivel for no other reason that to imply that enforcing the immigration laws is a joke because the people in Alabama are too lazy to work and workers have to be imported from somewhere else anyway.

    As propagandists for the far left, they should be made to print a disclaimer of intent on every article.
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    Notice how the traitors at Bloomberg protect the name of the illegal alien employing company that is now replacing Americans with legal immigrants too.

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    Okay, working night deboning chicken isn't the same as working as a Wal-Mart greeter. Is $10.85 really a fair wage for such a job? Do the workers have a medical or dental plan? Didn't these jobs pay better before the illegal immigrant problem became such an issue? I know the meat-packing industry used to pay a lot more than they do now, same in the construction industry. I'm not real knowledgeable where the poulty industry is concerned but wouldn't $14-$16 an hour be a more appropriate wage? Perhaps if Tyson offered a fair wage they would get Alabamians to do the work. Sending head-hunters out beating the bushes in other states for 'cheap' labor doesn't exactly sound like something a company concerned about their local community would do.

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    Stopping illegal immigration is just part of the immigration problem, we still have to reduce legal immigration as well to get Americans back to work and reflate ages. But, what Alabama has done, like Arizona, and others, is take the first big step to getting our citizens back to work. It's one thing to be shut out of a job by a legal immigrant, which is bad enough, but losing a job to a illegal alien is totally unacceptable. That's why we should work both fronts, stopping illegal immigration and reducing legal immigration.
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    The wage will self-correct when we solve both the problems of illegal immigration and excess legal immigration. We need to not only stop illegal immigration we must substantially reduce legal immigration. In fact, I support a moratorium on legal immigration until illegal immigration is stopped, illegal aliens already here leave, the US poverty rate for people under 60 is 5% and the US unemployment rate is below 2%.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Judy View Post
    The wage will self-correct when we solve both the problems of illegal immigration and excess legal immigration. We need to not only stop illegal immigration we must substantially reduce legal immigration. In fact, I support a moratorium on legal immigration until illegal immigration is stopped, illegal aliens already here leave, the US poverty rate for people under 60 is 5% and the US unemployment rate is below 2%.

    I agree that legal immigration is a problem too! Included in the legal immigration is the refugee groups we are bringing in.

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