Posted on 01/04/2005 4:00:40 PM PST by Conservative Firster
In a textbook example of how firms push the costs of immigration onto local communities, the Anderson Fabrics company is importing foreign workers to Blackduck, Minnesota. The company first tried bringing Hmong workers, but that plan failed. "Blackduck community leaders say there was, indeed, a culture clash. The arrival of Hmong workers was sudden, no one in Blackduck spoke their language and only a few of the Hmong spoke English. With relatively little warning, the school district had to create an English as a Second Language Program for about two dozen new Hmong children." Now the company is seeking state funding to construct housing for its workers, and local schools have again been forced to put into place costly ESL programs.
Read the full story here from Minnesota Public Radio
MN went for Skerry didn't it. Now let's see if they are going to LIVE the dream.
FORCED?? to educate them? UNBELEIVABLE. This subsidizing of these companies has to stop. They couldn't find workers in MN to take these jobs? Welfare recepients?
$9.00 an hour doesn't seem like such a bad wage...... Are they paying taxes???????
The "welcome wagon" that this town has provided will only encourage more illegal immigration and make this mans fortunes grow. About 1% of the American population will make a fortune while the other 99% get to pay for all the social support for the illegals. The problem won't go away as long as the rich get richer.
The "welcome wagon" that this town has provided will only encourage more illegal immigration and make this mans fortunes grow. About 1% of the American population will make a fortune while the other 99% get to pay for all the social support for the illegals. The problem won't go away as long as the rich get richer.
Besides, the employer would have to match Social Security contributions, pay workman's comp and other benefits if he hired locally. We are "insourcing" our jobs with outsourced labor. We will regret it in the end.
Teddy Roosevelt, Republican President (Speech, New York, 1915)
FYI
yeah, I know. Don't remind me that I live in blue hell.
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