Posted on 10/20/2025 7:55:40 AM PDT by Twotone
The potential closure of a Mon Valley frozen food processing plant will create a “territorial disaster” for the 252 workers – many of them immigrants – who are employed there, according to a Pittsburgh immigration attorney.
Facing a lawsuit for allegedly defaulting on $90 million in loans, Fourth Street Barbecue is downsizing at its two Charleroi area plants that operate under the Fourth Street Foods name by the end of the month, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notice filed with the state. Closure of the plants is possible, according to the notice.
Immigration attorney Joe Murphy said the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) humanitarian program for the immigrants expires in February. The program allows eligible nationals from countries in crises to live and work in the United States temporarily. The status can be terminated or extended based on conditions of the home country.
“This is a territorial disaster,” Murphy said Thursday. “You’ve got the end of legal status and the end of the job. What are these people going to do? That will happen at the cruelest possible moment, February in Western Pennsylvania. Landlords will be evicting people into the minus-9-degree weather or whatever we get.”
Immigrants from more than 40 countries live and work in the Mon Valley, but Murphy said the Haitian representation is particularly vulnerable because in most cases, they include families with children.
“Other migrant groups may have a person who quietly works at the barbecue and stockpiles cash and lives quietly and modestly,” Murphy said. “With the Haitians, they’ve got kids. They’ve got mouths to feed. As a group they’re not sitting on emergency money. A lot of these people don’t have the cash to move away. It really is a bomb waiting to go off. They don’t know what to do."
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So are we now going to have judges order failing businesses to remain open, and subsidized by the state in order to keep illegal immigrants here?
If only there were some way these poor Haitians could arrange a free flight back to their nice warm home, with maybe some money to help get established there....
GO HOME!!!! This is a "Temporary" program. Temporary means temporary, not permanent. Although in the US a temporary government program usually metastasizes into something permanent.
I keep seeing ads featuring Kristi Noem ... they suggest a possibility for these folks to go home.
“Other migrant groups may have a person who quietly works at the barbecue and stockpiles cash and lives quietly and modestly,” Murphy said. “With the Haitians, they’ve got kids. They’ve got mouths to feed. As a group they’re not sitting on emergency money. A lot of these people don’t have the cash to move away. It really is a bomb waiting to go off. They don’t know what to do.”
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I’ll tell you what they need to do - go home.
A U.S. District Court had blocked the initial termination of TPS of September 2, 2025 for Haitians, making the effective date of termination no earlier than February 3, 2026.
They’ve known this was coming two times now, and if they’ve not been able to receive a lawful status, they’ll just have to be deported back to Haiti.
That’s not a bomb waiting to go off.
Go back to their home countries. /Captain Obvious impression
WHY WOULD I EVER WANT AN ILLEGAL TO BE PREPARING FOOD I MIGHT WISH TO CONSUME???
I AM BEYOND TIRED OF THE “SOB STORIES”.
TAKE YOUR “SKILLS” & RETURN TO YOUR OWN COUNTRY-—MAYBE IMPROVE THINGS THERE
Gosh, haitian immigrants seem as screwed as the rest of us. They need more money. Tax me baby one more time.
"I'll take 'Go Home' for $1,000, Alex."
“A lot of these people don’t have the cash to move away.”
The government offers $1000 and an airplane ticket to the country destination of their choice.
Washington, PA.
Ping...
“They don’t know what to do.”
easy: go back to Haiti ...
They can go back to their home countries where they belong. PROBLEM SOLVED!
If any of them are ILLEGALS...DEPORT THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES IMMEDIATELY. Fine the sleazy businesses that hired them.
Illegal???
OUT!!!
GET OUT!!!
If any of them are ILLEGALS...DEPORT THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES IMMEDIATELY. Fine the sleazy businesses that hired them.
Illegal???
OUT!!!
GET OUT!!!
“Landlords will be evicting people into the minus-9-degree weather or whatever we get.”
It won’t ever be -9 degrees in Haiti.
Where were these concerns when the Mon Valley was slammed with steel mill shut-downs in the late 70s and early 80s?
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