Posted on 02/14/2017 5:19:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Michael Goldberg, a Cleveland-based professor, has read headlines about humanitarian and national security issues surrounding refugees and immigrants coming to America through programs nationwide.
Still, all Goldberg could think about was how Cleveland businesses will be affected by recent executive orders made by President Donald Trump.
Trump campaigned hard on the idea that immigrants threaten American communities, take away jobs and abuse government benefits like housing assistance and food stamps. So Goldberg pulled together a panel of local business and community leaders that offered an entirely different perspective. They say immigrants and refugees are critical to their manufacturing businesses. They're filling jobs that locals just don't want.
Representatives from National Safety Apparel, the Dan T. Moore Company and US Together, a nonprofit servicing the needs of recently arrived refugee families in Cleveland, served as panelists Monday at Case Western Reserve University. Their goal was to offer an entirely different perspective.
"Refugees are a huge economic engine for what we call 'Rust Belt' cities. Cities like Pittsburgh, Detroit and Cleveland where there are population declines, and where there are manufacturing jobs, but they're right on that cusp of they might leave or send their manufacturing overseas," said Danielle Drake, a spokeswoman from US Together. "Refugees are replacing that workforce. They're making Q-tips and they're sewing and they're doing all of these jobs so we can keep them in our cities and they're giving back to the economy."
Goldberg said he put together the panel because he wanted Case Western students and members of the community to hear about how immigrants and refugees have been critical to filling needs to Cleveland businesses that struggle to fill jobs like sewing and even washing dishes....
(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...
How are refugees who have no education and are illiterate in their native language, let alone English, going to add to the US economy?
Go get some legal ones then.
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