https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fremont-nebraska-migrants-slaughterhouses-rental-rule-rcna144422
"We need slaves but we don't want to see them"
Cowardly capitalist imperialism strikes again. Can't even look the people it exploits in the eye as it exploits them. Pathetic. This is the world you created, pigs, acknowledge it. You can't ignore it forever.
Fremont, Nebraska, population 27,000, has three massive meat-processing plants. As young locals leave in search of better jobs, Central American migrants have been taking their places in the slaughterhouses, especially after Costco opened a huge rotisserie chicken facility in 2019.
“We need these people,” said Mark Jensen, president of the city council. “We need this work done. This is what feeds the nation and the world.”
Damn, if it's so necessary why did locals leave for better jobs?
Brenda Ray, who has lived in the Fremont area for 40 years, said she noted the change in the city’s population and voted for the ordinance back in 2010. She said she doesn’t “have a problem” with the Central American arrivals “if they are legal and they come in to speak American English.”
Abolish the English Language
If a migrant can both speak English and has legal status, I can’t imagine many of them would be working at a slaughter house lol
desperately looking at an increasingly angry test-proctoring board as I try to determine whether to spell Color with a 'u'
I strongly suspect Brenda will, in fact, still “have a problem” with brown people even if they speak perfect “American” English
Slaughterhouse work is also incredibly traumatic, I had a friend in uni that worked in one for a summer or two and it was what caused him to become a vegetarian. I won't go into details but I am completely unsurprised that people with any other option would leave town for greener pastures.
Town Motto:
Feeding Our Kirkland Signature Nation, One COSTCO Rotisserie Chicken at a Time™
White conservatives, and really all conservatives, have this fantasy where “real Americans” will get “their jobs” back once the immigrants are kicked out. They never discuss who will pick and kill their food. I don’t know if it’s because they believe some sweet, old white man is strolling down his family farm and picking oranges and sending them to the store; or they want prisoners and other lower tier whites to do the work (and that’s based and America first pilled); or they simply do not think beyond rhetoric and only think about food when they’re in the store buying it.
Or they completely ignore the food industry and imagine that migrants are taking “real” jobs like engineering and software development and managerial roles. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the case because I know many conservatives who genuinely think that democrats are paying migrants $2000 a month to cross the border and live in the US
I’m Mexican, but was born in the us. I’ve done the work these people typically do for most of my life so far and all I can really do is laugh when anyone suggests getting rid of us. The rhetoric has gotten pretty bad recently but I can’t really imagine deporting easily the hardest working portion of the workforce and thinking whites are gonna step on up and fill the void, It’s not gonna happen. Obviously if you want to go ahead, shovels are right there, but that hasn’t been my experience really.
The conservative fantasy of a farm life is some porn advertisement of a big titted wife wearing a dress in the forest and she grows tomatoes and takes care of the children
Feeds the world? Its a meat packing plant in Frogballs middle amerika, calm down.
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