Posted on 11/13/2021 5:45:37 PM PST by markomalley
Black Americans who spent most of their lives working on Mississippi farms are suing their former employer after they were replaced by foreign workers on the H-2A visa program.
The lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, accuses Pitts Farms of laying off a number of black Americans, only to replace them with foreign visa workers from South Africa.
The H-2A visa program allows U.S. farms to annually outsource an unlimited number of American jobs to foreign workers who can extend their stay for up to three years. The foreign families of H-2A visa workers can also come to the U.S. on H-4 visas.
In 1997, a little more than 16,000 foreign visa workers were imported to take American jobs on U.S. farms. By 2020, that number has ballooned to a record 213,400 foreign visa workers — an increase in the H-2A visa program of more than 1,200 percent in less than 25 years.
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Importing cheap labor is pushed by BOTH parties.
The GOP would happily replace YOU with cheap imported labor if it would make their corporate overlords $1 more a year in profit.
White South Africans, BTW
Just like they did to the programmers. Willing to bet its the corporate farms that did this.
But it’s with a visa.
UNLIKE the illegals. I’ll never understand why this is not brought up - why can’t they just get a visa/green card?
And, get rid of the minimum wage and all those problems will GO AWAY.
It’s nonsense. Pay no attention.
They should sue themselves for voting for DemonRats.
Or go get tats that say PROPERTY OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY.
Black Americans? I thought it was African Americans.
Make your minds up C**NS.
yup- keep voting for clowns like bennie thompson and keep expecting things to change...
UNLIKE the illegals. I’ll never understand why this is not brought up - why can’t they just get a visa/green card?
do you know how hard and how long it takes to get a green card/permanent resident status? oh once one has a green card its near impossible to deport them..too many liberal judges
Will this wake up the black masses as to their big mistake in supporting Biden over Trump?
The Republicans should jump all over this and turn Blacks against large scale immigration and the Democrats who support it.
We have AA hiring where I work (Top 3 Defense contractor)
At least 1/2 the people I interview for Engineering Interns are the kids of rich Africans... only because they are black.
The republicans are in on it. Look at Mike Lee and his love for H1B Indians.
Wait, American blacks went to SA to be white farmer employees?
You specifically hire alcoholics?...
No.
They. Won’t. Do. The. Labor.
This is a ploy to get free money. Everyone is the farming towns knows this.
Better yet, drive out to a farming community and strike up a conversation with the residents. Eye-opening as much as the EBT accepted signs in the windows of the local Piggly Wigglies.
You are correct. Both parties support rampant visas for cheap labor. The US Chamber of Commerce lobbies republicans hard over this.
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