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CV NEWS FEED // An executive at Tyson Foods, Inc. (“Tyson”) said the meat conglomerate is considering hiring at least 40,000 migrants to work in its factories.
Shortly after the news surfaced, the meat and poultry giant stated that it was “misinformation” and that the company is “strongly opposed to illegal immigration.”
Tyson Human Resources executive Garrett Dolan, PhD, said his company “would like to employ another 42,000 [migrants] if we could find them,” Bloomberg reported last week. Dolan added that migrant workers are “very, very loyal.”
“They’ve been uprooted and what they want is stability,” he told Bloomberg. “[W]hat they want is a sense of belonging.”
According to his LinkedIn page, Dolan is Tyson’s Director of Sustainable Food Strategy.
The corporation appeared to contest its executive’s remarks, going as far as to post a new immigration position statement on its website.
“In recent days, there has been a lot of misinformation in the media about our company, and we feel compelled to set the record straight,” Tyson’s statement indicated:
Tyson Foods is strongly opposed to illegal immigration, and we led the way in participating in the two major government programs to help employers combat unlawful employment, E-Verify and the Mutual Agreement between Government and Employers (IMAGE) program.
Since being founded in 1935 in Arkansas, Tyson Foods has created jobs and employed millions of people in states all across America. Today, Tyson Foods employs 120,000 team members in the U.S., all of whom are required to be legally authorized to work in this country.
“We have a history of strong hiring practices, and anybody who is legally able is welcome to apply to open job listings,” the statement concluded.
Last fall, National Public Radio (NPR) reported that the U.S. Department of Labor had launched an investigation into Tyson, as well as their main poultry industry competitor Perdue Farms “after reports that migrant children as young as 13 have been working overnight shifts to clean the companies’ plants.”
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The Daily Mail noted that “[a]sylum seekers cannot work upon entering the US, and typically don’t get permits until 180 days after they apply for legal status.”
“Many wait for years before their first immigration court hearing to judge their asylum claim, during which time they can work,” the Daily Mail added.
FOX Business stated this weekend that Tyson recently announced that it was closing a pork packing plant in Perry, Iowa, which “reportedly has a workforce of more than 1,200.” As of the 2020 census, Perry only had a total population of 7,836.
Last week, FOX News host Jesse Watters stated: “As Perry residents struggle to cope with mass layoffs, Tyson Foods has its eyes on a different class of workers.”
Watters noted that Tyson also recently held a job fair targeted toward migrants in New York City.
In a clip played on Watters’ show, Bloomberg’s Simone Foxman described her experience observing the event.
“So these people would come in … and for the most part Tyson had already gone through their various details of their application and so many of them, 17 the day I was there, and then another 70 a couple of weeks later went off to Tennessee to go start their new jobs as Tyson production workers.”
Waters noted that in addition to health insurance, Tyson is “offering lawyers to its illegal alien workers and time off to attend immigration hearings.”
The popular X (formerly known as Twitter) account Libs of TikTok reacted to the report by calling for a boycott of Tyson.
“Might be time to ‘Bud Light’ Tyson!” the account wrote. It was likely referring to the beer brand’s massive loss of business after it featured a “transgender” influencer in an ad campaign last year.
According to Catherine Klemcke of 1915 Farm, Tyson is “the second-largest pork and chicken packer in the U.S. and sells products in 90 countries.” In addition, it is also one of the “Big 4” that “control 85% of the U.S. beef market.”
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During a Friday appearance on FOX Business, “FOX and Friends Weekend” co-host Pete Hegseth fired back at the Tyson executive’s controversial remarks.
“The businesses are happy to [hire migrants] when there’s no E-Verify or there’s no consequences,” Hegseth told former Rep. Sean Duffy, R-WI, and co-hostess Dagen McDowell.
He explained that it’s “cheaper labor for this business to produce a product.”
“And it’s not an easy job,” Hegseth added. “But Americans should have the first shot. And they should have a good shot at a good wage.”
McDowell agreed. “It’s so dismissive, the language that they use,” she said. “That Americans don’t want these jobs. Really?”
“Americans had these jobs,” Duffy argued. “They lost them.”
