Posted on 08/04/2008 4:30:22 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
An estimated 750 to 1,000 Somali refugees are living in Emporia, a magnet because of jobs at the Tyson Foods meatpacking plant. Many have latent tuberculosis.
H/T to Texas Fred and his comment thread.
EMPORIA — When hundreds of Somali refugees began showing up to work at the meatpacking plant, nurses Lori Torres and Renee Hively were among the first to get to know the exotic, new arrivals."We got notified a day in advance that 70 Somalis were being transferred from a (Tyson Foods) plant in Nebraska," Hively recalled. "That 70 soon grew into 400, seemingly overnight."...Torres is the case manager for about 160 Somalis in Emporia who have been diagnosed with latent tuberculosis....
Section 212(a)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act states that aliens with specific health-related conditions are ineligible to receive visas and ineligible for admission into the United States. The Attorney General may waive application of this inadmissibility on health-related grounds if an application for waiver is filed and approved by the consular office considering the application for a visa. The Division of Migration and Quarantine, NCID uses this application primarily to collect information to establish and maintain records of waiver applicants in order to notify the Immigration and Naturalization Service when terms, conditions and controls imposed by waiver are not met. NCID is requesting the extension of this data for 3 years. There total estimated annualize burden is 167 hours.More from the Topeka Capital-Journal:
...each of the department's [Tyson's] nurses divided the case management responsibilities, but with the surge it was decided Torres would take them all, in essence creating a full-time tuberculosis nurse position. They also persuaded the clinic's managers to hire a full-time Somali translator. [Your package of chicken fingers just went up a quarter.}Here's the EXOTIC word again:
The Somalis are the most recent and perhaps most exotic wave for this city of about 25,000 people. Not everyone in Emporia has been welcoming. There have been incidents of vandalism and an armed robbery attempt at the Ayan Restaurant, a Somali-owned eatery that also serves as an informal community center for the refugees.If you haven't caught the latest news, Tyson contractually, with its Union, canceled Labor Day - no joking here - at their Shelbyville, TN plant and replaced it with a Muslim holiday sometime each Fall.
An article posted Nov. 3 on the Emporia Gazette Web site about a state grant to Catholic Community Services to help the Somalis settling in Emporia drew scores of angry, anonymous reader reactions, including this one:
"Emporia is going to be its own 3rd world country before long because of all the damn, bleeding hearts."
"They came post 9/11. They're black and they're Muslim," Hively said, describing some of the hostility demonstrated toward the Somalis. "Emporia didn't have many black people before. This is a small town."
“HOW DID THESE PEOPLE GET INTO THE U.S.?”
Our State Department trolls the world looking for entire third world villages to import to the U.S. because we need more diversity in this racist nation. These people cause huge problems for the communities they decide to leech upon. We don’t need them. Our immigration quota should be cut to 250,000 per year and the Visa quotas should be cut in half. We have enough people.
Tyson TB BTTT
I started my boycott of Tyson during the Clinton years. The are scum (IMO).
Can’t do much more than that at this point, other than telling everyone I know to boycott them.
They should be driven out of the USA.
I never touch the stuff. Any brand but Tyson.
Maybe the Emporia Tyson plant can give these workers a TB holiday too.
http://www.emporiagazette.com/news/2007/jan/19/more_questions/
A Tyson worker who died Jan. 4 with an active case of tuberculosis had tested positive earlier for a latent TB infection, according to a state health official.
ping.
let’s see...recognizing a muslim holiday ‘opt-out’ for labor day and now this?
thankfully, me and mine have not been buying tyson products since we learned of the link to slick willie.
They also supply raw packaged beef, steaks, ribs, roast, etc, to another Arkansas company. Walmart. Walmarts have no butcher shop. Their beef comes from Tyson. I saw the boxes one night.
Those huddled masses were checked for disease at Ellis Island. The ones with disease weren’t allowed in.
Further, Somali has a lower population density than the United States as a whole (including Alaska and Hawaii) and a density roughly equal to Minnesota. So what is the justification of moving people from a less crowded to a more crowded country?
While I realize that much of Somali is arid and difficult to farm, it has more coastline and a far milder climate than Minnesota, which seems to be a popular destination for Somali refugees.
Remember, boys and girls, don't order the "secret" sauce.
Why? I dunno. One reason is we (the US) made the country a mess. We were there heavily during the cold war and basically abandoned the place. Of course Clinton handled the situation so well that it turned into a garden spot.
When Jefferson said that The Tree of Libery must from time to time be "manured with the blood of tyrants," did he intend for us to include bureaucrats.
So, meat can be contaminated with tuberculosis laden phlegm but still be halal? Inquring minds want to know.
Ok I meant the ‘new’ huddled masses.
It was Tyson that eliminated Labor Day as a paid holiday for its employees and replaced it with some muzz feast day, causing a BIG stink. I heard today that Tyson has “reversed” its original decision. Too late, though: I still will not buy Tyson products.
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