Posted on 01/10/2023 5:17:17 AM PST by devane617
A group of black Americans settled their lawsuits against two United States farms for their having replaced them with foreign workers from South Africa that were imported on H-2A visas.
As Breitbart News reported in November 2021, a number of black Americans along the Mississippi Delta filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against their former employers — Pitts Farms and Harris Russell Farms — for laying them off only to replace them with white foreign H-2A visa workers from South Africa.
Data shows U.S. farms use the H-2A visa program to import cheaper foreign visa workers. The black Americans who filed the lawsuit claimed they were paid $7.25 to $8.25 an hour while their foreign H-2A visa counterparts were paid nearly $12 an hour.
The settlement, of which the terms have not been publicly disclosed, will send a message to employers looking to discriminate against Americans in favor of foreign visa workers, lawyers representing the black Americans suggest.
“These settlements are an important step and we are going to keep moving forward in an effort to eradicate these abuses throughout the Delta,” attorney Rob McDuff said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
White South Africans? Perhaps one of the few groups of people who DO deserve asylum here in America... of course we will never see traitor joe taking action against businesses that exploit foreign indian, hispanic or asian labor at the expense of american citizens. The only reason action was taken here was because of the race of the imported laborers.
Good for them.
On to reparations.
Says something about something that the farms fired employees they were paying $8 an hour to replace them with workers that cost $12 an hour.
Eventually..not to far into the future.. they will replace us ALL with other than Americans.
And you won’t get a settlement.
Good luck.
But this is a case of legal workers, hired at GREATER expense, which suggests to me the farm owners recognized the value of higher productivity. Nobody is going through all the hoops to legally hire foreign workers, at a higher rate than they’d pay locals, unless the locals weren’t getting the job done.
South African whites are looking to get out of SA anyway they can. I remember the 2000s when they were carnies in every state and county fair in America.
Where was the “illegal”?
>>Data shows U.S. farms use the H-2A visa program to import cheaper foreign visa workers. The black Americans who filed the lawsuit claimed they were paid $7.25 to $8.25 an hour while their foreign H-2A visa counterparts were paid nearly $12 an hour.
If that’s correct, they were more expensive. Probably worked harder/smarter and were worth it.
I might export my white self to a European country that isn’t importing 3rd world Mohammedan trash.
If such a place exists…
I was working part time in a five-and-dime
My boss was Mr. McGee
He told me several times that he didn’t like my kind
‘Cause I was a bit too leisurely
Data shows U.S. farms use the H-2A visa program to import cheaper foreign visa workers. The black Americans who filed the lawsuit claimed they were paid $7.25 to $8.25 an hour while their foreign H-2A visa counterparts were paid nearly $12 an hour.
Last I checked, $12 is more than $7.25-8>25. Yet the statement is saying the imported labor was cheaper - even though paid significantly more per hour than the "black Americans"...
I wouldn't count on it. They will STILL vote democRAT.
That’s the whole purpose of the southern invasion.
Poor whites, native born Hispanics, and blacks are slowly, but, surely trending conservative. The uniparty needs slaves to work in their kitchens and pick their crops and clean the lawns at Martha’s Vineyard.
But the actual cost of a legal employee is more than the $8/hour. There are regulatory costs such as FICA and worker’s comp that add up.
Exactly - if the number were reversed - one might see a case - imported labor costing less than domestic labor.
Alas - lived in the rice/soybean/wheat country of Arkansas for many years. Saw a transition then from Americans to Hispanic workers. Was close to several farmers who would discuss it - and it wasn’t about paying lower wages - quite the contrary.
This was back in the 1990’s - mid 2000’s: They simply couldn’t hire enough Americans that would consistently show sober up for work, put in an honest day’s work. Period. My Father-in-Law complained a lot - as he was the kind of guy who went to work no matter what - sick, hurt, bad weather, etc - and would do any job (and he wasn’t paid worth a crap). But he was the ONLY employee his employer had who would actually work. Drunks showing up to drive $1/4million machines or to handle dangerous equipment... no bueno.
So the farmers in that area began hiring immigrants - almost all either from Mexico or Guatemala. They found that, while they actually paid these guys pretty well (and most also provided housing) - their productivity went up because these new hires showed up to work and would work an honest day (but don’t demand they work more than the agreeed-upon work day!). The only issue they often found - these Hispanic workers would only be there for 2-4 years before going back to their home country (where they would live at a much higher standard of living on the $$$ they had sent home for their time here). Some would eventually come back and do it again. A handful would stay and eventually try to bring their family to the US to live. The legalities were sometimes a bit hard.
In that case - it really was “to do a job Americans wouldn’t do”... or at least wouldn’t put much effort in to doing.
BS. Stop all immigration for 50 years. This can’t go on much longer.
The article wasn’t about illegal employees - but legal ones on proper work visas.
Every country in Eastern Europe. Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, etc.
Will never happen - but I would be pleased if we would at least pretend to enforce our borders first. We could “legally” close all immigration... but that would only hold up those who come here legally. It wouldn’t touch the exponentially larger illegal immigration.
Farmers and small business both rely on cheap labor. That is why they are darlng constituency of the GOP.
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