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Fourth Street Foods closing could be disastrous for immigrants
Observer-Reporter ^ | October 17, 2025 | Paul Paterra

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at observer-reporter.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: immigrants; monvalley; paping; pennsylvania

1 posted on 10/20/2025 7:55:40 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

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?


2 posted on 10/20/2025 8:01:17 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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To: Twotone
A lot of these people don’t have the cash to move away.

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....

3 posted on 10/20/2025 8:02:36 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Twotone
“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?"

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.

4 posted on 10/20/2025 8:03:29 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

I keep seeing ads featuring Kristi Noem ... they suggest a possibility for these folks to go home.


5 posted on 10/20/2025 8:04:46 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Twotone

“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.


6 posted on 10/20/2025 8:05:51 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Twotone
What are these people going to do?

Go back to their home countries. /Captain Obvious impression

7 posted on 10/20/2025 8:07:16 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Twotone

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


8 posted on 10/20/2025 8:15:13 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Twotone

Gosh, haitian immigrants seem as screwed as the rest of us. They need more money. Tax me baby one more time.


9 posted on 10/20/2025 8:21:48 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Twotone
“You’ve got the end of legal status and the end of the job. What are these people going to do?

"I'll take 'Go Home' for $1,000, Alex."

10 posted on 10/20/2025 8:23:49 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (First, I was a clinger, then deplorable, now I'm garbage. Feel the love? )
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

“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.


11 posted on 10/20/2025 8:24:11 AM PDT by Toughluck_freeper
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To: lightman

Washington, PA.
Ping...


12 posted on 10/20/2025 8:32:30 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Twotone

“They don’t know what to do.”

easy: go back to Haiti ...


13 posted on 10/20/2025 9:03:53 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: Twotone

They can go back to their home countries where they belong. PROBLEM SOLVED!


14 posted on 10/20/2025 1:39:22 PM PDT by packrat35 (“When discourse ends, violence begins.” – Charlie Kirk, and they killed him anyway)
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To: Twotone

If any of them are ILLEGALS...DEPORT THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES IMMEDIATELY. Fine the sleazy businesses that hired them.

Illegal???

OUT!!!

GET OUT!!!


15 posted on 10/20/2025 4:31:02 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Twotone

If any of them are ILLEGALS...DEPORT THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES IMMEDIATELY. Fine the sleazy businesses that hired them.

Illegal???

OUT!!!

GET OUT!!!


16 posted on 10/20/2025 4:31:32 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Twotone

“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?


17 posted on 10/20/2025 5:34:02 PM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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