Posted on 04/26/2020 10:23:24 AM PDT by rintintin
Language barriers were a key issue at the Smithfield meat processing plant that was shuttered earlier this month after a coronavirus outbreak infected 800 employees, according to a report from the Centers for Disease control and Prevention.
The CDC report issued this week criticized a number of practices at the plant in Sioux Falls, which processed 5 percent of the nation's pork before it was shuttered indefinitely on April 15.
The massive plant employing 3,500 is just one of a dozen American meat packing plants to shut down this month after outbreaks, spurring pork and beef shortages and higher prices for consumers.
The CDC report says that at the Sioux Falls plant, which has a large immigrant workforce, some 40 different languages are spoken, with the top 10 being English, Spanish, Kunama, Swahili, Nepali, Tigrinya, Amharic, French, Oromo, and Vietnamese.
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It sounds like the FDA stamp should be accompanied by a certification that I-9 is practiced at the packing plant. At least we know where the virus came from...
Wow. There are some languages on that list I hadn’t even heard the names of.
All legal immigrants well on their path to citizenship, no doubt.
/Sarc
I’m surprised the English is among the top ten languages spoken there.
The = that
“Diversity is our Strength”
Remember that Smithfield is now Chicom owned. Perhaps, the national emergency should change attitudes about allowing commie governments to purchase US companies. Also, blame Demonrats for opposing English as official language of our country.
I had to look them up too.
I used to have an Ethiopian roommate. Good people.
Should we import the entire population?
2017 and 2018 were the golden years. The GOP had the Presidency, the Senate, and the House. One of the many things they should have done - but didn’t - was make English the sole official language of the United States.
Back when my grandparents immigrated from Eastern Europe, they had to learn English to navigate in this country. But why should an immigrant from Mexico or the Philippines bother to learn English now? These days government forms and store signs are printed in all sorts of languages.
Heck, I just got a bank statement the other day. If you speak only Tagalog, no problem. Just call this number and everything will be explained to you, in Tagalog.
We’ve done worse.
And no, not now, we have immigrant indigestion.
We need to let the legal immigrants become incorporated into the American culture before we allow more.
As to the illegal invaders? They need to go or be sent home.
It’s the virology, stupid
Well their wages are going back home
Did you use Venetian blinds as bunk beds?
/s
You are a bad man...
...and I wonder just how many were immigrants vs the more likely refugees brought to us by two agencies over which States have Zero control.
If they are legal immigrants and not illegal aliens, they either are American citizens or on their way to becoming American citizens (Americans).
If they are what the "media" and democrats call illegal aliens, you are right.
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