https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fremont-nebraska-migrants-slaughterhouses-rental-rule-rcna144422

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    8 months ago

    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

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      8 months ago

      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

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        8 months ago

        desperately looking at an increasingly angry test-proctoring board as I try to determine whether to spell Color with a 'u'

    • Greenleaf [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      I strongly suspect Brenda will, in fact, still “have a problem” with brown people even if they speak perfect “American” English