You're right, it is bullsh*t. I saw the same thing here in MO : people spent years working at the two poultry processing plants in my hometown. Starting in the mid 1990s, the managers of those plants began systematically firing and laying off local workers, while the percentage of 'imported' workers rose higher and higher. Once the 'imported' workers reached a certain percentage inside the plants, reports were heard of assaults on local workers, women being attacked in the parking lots, even a case of gang rape on the plant floor. Today, those plants are nearly entirely staffed by 'imported' workers. The laid off local workers are either moving away or working 2-3 minimum wage jobs to survive, businesses are closing due to the loss of wage earners, and the only places that seem to be thriving are payday loan places, used car lots, fast food joints, and wal mart. And the poultry plants that threw out local workers like trash for the sake of paying a buck less an hour.