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There are two poultry processing plants here in my town-a Tyson's and a Honeysuckle White. In the 1980s, kids who didn't want to go to college went there after graduation, and got reasonably decent pay and benefits. Starting in the early 1990s, local black and white workers were forced out of the plants by a variety of means, including physical assaults commited by the 'imported' labor (possibly at the behest of the managers, who at the very least turned a blind eye). Today the workforce there is nearly all "Hispanic", which in this case means illegal . The displaced workers have moved on or are trying to survive on Walmart/fast food/service jobs.

Who will do the work in North County, pack the beef in Omaha, cut tobacco in Kentucky and pluck the chickens in North Carolina?

That kind of nonsense makes me homicidal. The workers weren't "too proud or lazy" to do those jobs, they were thrown out like garbage. Any person who says "they only take the jobs Americans don't want" is a liar, and s/he KNOWS it's a lie. When translated , it really means,"anyone who does that kind of work is an illiterate trailer trash redneck, I hate people like that and it makes me happy to see them suffer."

MY husband and I were living in the tri cities area of WASHINGTON STATE, we were both looking for better wages one cannot live on a military retirement alone, and we both were to young for social security ,so we have, and we will both work, but when we went to a meat packing plant right outside the tri cities area that was hiring and the wages were great and we put our applications in we looked around and seen alllllll hispanics, as you have probably guessed we were not hired, probably not given any consideration neither these employers love these people they can treat them like kaka and there will be no complaining because they are here illegaly anyway.

Bump your reply for emphasis. Also, unfortunately, "they" won't stop coming, even if the birth rate in Mexico drops off. We are already seeing more and more illegals from countries south of Mexico coming into the US. They are basically being transshipped across Mexico. The tide of illegals won't stop until we get serious and both control our borders and punish those who hire illegals.