Posted on 01/21/2016 1:08:33 PM PST by b4its2late
Ever wonder why the federal government would be sending hundreds of foreign refugees to a relatively small town in Idaho?
Wonder no more.
They’re sent there, many of them, to work in the world’s largest yogurt factory.
As WND previously reported, Twin Falls is in line to receive about 300 refugees this year, many of them Muslims from Syria. And the state of Idaho, despite its reputation as a mostly white, conservative farm state, has been a popular destination for refugees in recent years.
Boise Mayor David Bieter has gone on record as a huge supporter of President Obama’s welcoming initiative for immigrants and refugees, writing in a blog post that, for his city, “diversity isn’t a buzzword. It’s our birthright.â€
The U.S. State Department has shipped more than 11,000 refugees directly from the Third World to Idaho since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Just in the past year, 989 refugees have arrived in the rural state, most of them landing in either Boise or Twin Falls. Nearly half have come from some of the world’s nastiest jihadist hot zones, including 95 from Iraq, 94 from Somalia, 47 from Sudan, 39 from Afghanistan, 31 from Iran, 28 from Syria and 11 from Pakistan, according to the federal refugee database.
But despite growing protests by local residents against the refugee arrivals, the Twin Falls area can count on being a prime spot for refugees for years to come, thanks to one man’s rising business enterprise.
That man is Hamdi Ulukaya, a Kurdish Muslim and immigrant from Turkey who created the billion-dollar U.S.-based Chobani yogurt empire.
Ulukaya opened the world’s largest yogurt factory in Twin Falls about two years ago, and the plant now employs 600 people with about 30% of those jobs filled by foreign refugees shipped to the U.S.
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Yeah, I think I saw that one too. That’s a good reason for me too. I’m done with them after I eat what I bought before I saw this.
I did too. I didn’t know till I read this. I’m done with them after I eat the 4 I got last week.
This kind of discrimination by nationality in hiring is supposed to be illegal - but I guess it only counts if it’s Americans who get the better part of the deal.
Same here, so we have decent alternatives.
I’m guessing the founder left Turkey because Kurds are persecuted in his homeland. Yet he’ll bring plenty of people here who’d want him dead in the old country.
Oikos strawberry and lime are the best.
Only if you like it that whey.
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