TYSON HAS LONG BEEN IDENTIFED WITH THE DEMOCRAT PARTY FOR OBVIOUS REASONS.
Tyson Foods Faces Boycott After Firing 1,200 Americans, ‘Would Like to Employ’ 42,000 Migrants
Multinational food conglomerate Tyson Foods is suffering a backlash after laying off 1,200 American workers only to turn around and announce that it would like to hire 42,000 illegals in their place.
The food giant announced that it was shutting down an Iowa pork factory that will lead to the elimination of 1,200 jobs, but even as the plant announcement was made, the company also reported an effort in Manhattan to hire thousands of illegals for a plant in Tennessee, Fox Business Network reported.
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Tyson proudly announced that it was joining Tent Partnership for Refugees, an organization that seeks to empower illegal aliens in the U.S.
According to Fox News, Tyson hired 87 illegals with its first event in cooperation with the organization and then said it would ultimately like to hire up to 42,000 migrants.
“We would like to employ another 42,000 if we could find them,” the company said alongside the organization founded by Chobani yogurt CEO Hamdi Ulukaya.
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The announcement, though, brought Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) to attack Tyson for the firing of Americans while hiring illegals.
“We’re certainly going to look into whether we can change that, assuming Tyson is operating legally,” Vance said on Jesse Watters Primetime. “All we know is that they are firing American workers and hiring illegal aliens to replace them. This is the entire point of illegal immigration — and Republicans, we’ve got to hammer this point home.”
Meanwhile, the company is suffering a major backlash on social media where thousands of Americans are advocating for their friends to support a boycott of the company.
After the backlash started, Tyson jumped into damage control mode and pushed out a statement saying they oppose illegal immigration.
“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 said in the statement. “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.”
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Morris: Illegal Migrant Child Labor Rampant in NYC Subways as Authorities Shrug
It is now routine to see child labor in New York City subways. But the child workers are sacrosanct illegal migrants, so the once-proudly progressive authorities in the city and state now turn away and declare, “not my problem.”
The New York Times came out with a report Wednesday detailing what any New Yorker already knows — that the subways are swarming with children as young as seven years old, slinging candy bars and packs of gum to commuters, sometimes with adults and sometimes alone, engaging in straight up child labor, after their mostly-Ecuadorian families landed in the Big Apple with no resources or connections in the area.
In scenes that are not familiar to people in first world countries but common in the places many of these migrants arrived from, kids are working out in the open, during the week, on hours their peers are all in school, and capitalizing on the sympathy their work elicits to pocket a few extra dollars for their parents.
Migrants wait outside the Roosevelt Hotel hoping for a place to stay on August 02, 2023, in New York City. (Leonardo Munoz/VIEWpress via Getty Images).
“‘It’s like a postcard from my country,’ said Soledad Álvarez Velasco, a social anthropologist originally from Quito who researches migration from Ecuador to the U.S. at the University of Illinois Chicago. ‘You will always see women there carrying their children, or with their children around them, selling whatever they can.’ In the U.S., she said, ‘they’re doing exactly what they did at home,'” New York Magazine quotes over the summer in a report on the same issue.
Despite Mayor Eric Adams (D) claiming during a trip to Ecuador in October that “In New York City, we do not allow our children to be in dangerous environments,” according to the Times, scores are, and no one in the city or state governments feel like doing anything about it.
Commendably, the Times writes that it reached out to seven city and state agencies to ask about subway child labor, and all of them claimed it was someone else’s problem.
The Department of Education, the State Labor Department, the Administration for Children’s Services, the State Office of Children and Family Services, all can’t be bothered, according to the Times report.
The Times also claims police, which would be the only authority able to be dispatched quick enough to respond before the children move, are not sent to calls that are not an emergency.
The paper writes:
There are logistical hurdles to addressing the issue. By the time someone called the state hotline and the report was evaluated and passed along to A.C.S., a candy seller could have already moved to a different location. The police can respond more quickly, but they typically are dispatched only in emergencies.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the subways, cited its rule against unauthorized commercial activity, which carries a $50 fine, and referred further inquiries to the police and City Hall.
A couple of heavily armed New York National Guard soldiers patrol Grand Central terminal, Thursday, March 7, 2024, in New York. Gov. Kathy Hochul is sending the National Guard to the New York City subway system to help police search passengers’ bags for weapons. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Meanwhile, the unchecked illegality breeds more illegality.
Turf wars are forming over train “territory,” New York Mag said in its report, as more migrants move into the subway to hustle and threaten each other over certain platforms.
“Individuals and families who work in the same areas tend to look out for one another — but they don’t always get along. There are, increasingly, disputes over territory as more take to the trains. ‘That guy over there,’ one young candy-and-beverage seller from Ambato, Ecuador, said along the F train, pointing discreetly to a middle-aged man selling sodas from a cooler of ice farther down the platform. ‘He told us that bad things will happen to us if we keep selling here. That this is his place and no one else’s,'” New York Mag reported.
They are working in an area that is apparently so dangerous that New York governor Kathy Hochul (D) just last week had to put the National Guard in the subway. Those soldiers are doing bag checks for the three million+ commuters who use the underground transit system daily, even as foreign children illegally sell candy around them.
The New York subway has become a microcosm of the way the left has done a 180 from the ideals that built the modern Democratic Party: a system where the military patrols subways, where children are exploited through illegal labor on turf governed by gangs — and the “progressive” party of FDR has nothing to say about it.
Emma-Jo Morris is the Politics Editor at Breitbart News. Email her at ejmorris@breitbart.com or follow her on Twitter.
Sen. Roger Marshall: Democrats Want Open Border to ‘Build Their Census’
Democrats want an open border to “build their census,” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily, detailing the fight between Republicans and Democrats on the issue of border security.
Democrats in the Senate this week rejected the Laken Riley Act, and the White House has rejected it as well, urging Republicans to instead get on board with the highly flawed Senate immigration bill.
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C-SPANWhen asked by host Mike Slater why Democrats are opposing these legitimate efforts to secure the border and export criminal illegal aliens out of the country, Marshall said Democrats are actually trying to “build their census.”
“It is absolutely to build their census, so they can have more people,” he explained. “So when they do the census, the amount of government resources that are resources that go to your district is based upon that census, and they’re gonna be voting illegally.”
“And you know, so they help to grow their electoral college as well. California and New York are hemorrhaging people — people that are leaving because they’re tired of the violence. So they’re trying to backfill that so they keep the number of congressional seats, which adds to their electoral college,” he said, concluding that it is absolutely “politically motivated.”
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Further, Marshall said Democrats create crises and then think the government can solve them. But then, their solution actually causes more problems.
“Now the mayor of New York, Chicago are feeling the pain,” he said, explaining that they are now requesting monetary aid.
“It’s not going to solve the violence problems. To your point, the folks that came in from Venezuela, a lot of those are not good people. It’s a violent society. If you’ve ever been there, you understand just how violent that society is. These got-aways, 2 million got-aways in this country — there’s a reason they didn’t go through the regular process,” he added.
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THERE'S NO GREATER THREAT TO AMERICA THAN JOE BIDEN!
Breitbart Business Digest: Immigration Will Not Lower Inflation
Border Chaos Has Added Millions of Foreigners to Labor Force
Immigration is not going to bail America out of our inflation mess.
The United States is experiencing an enormous surge of migrants. The Department of Labor says that the labor force has increased by 4.6 million foreign born workers during the Biden administration, including an additional 1.3 million so far this year.
That is likely an undercount because it is hard for the Labor Department’s household surveys to count new arrivals, especially when the numbers are rising so quickly.
We know that more than three million migrants who crossed the southern border are still in the U.S. An additional million or so who arrived at ports of entry without visas were allowed to remain in the U.S. because of the Biden administration’s expanded use of parole. Another 3.7 million have arrived with the proper paperwork allowing them to work.
The Democrat Border Crisis
This is a political crisis for President Joe Biden and the Democrats. Most Americans disapprove of the job Biden is doing as president. A quarter of those who disapprove just don’t like the guy, citing personal style or characteristics as the reason for their disapproval, according to Gallup News. Eighteen percent broadly disapprove of his performance.
Around 47 percent of those giving Biden a thumbs down cite his handling of specific issues, according to Gallup. The top three issues will not surprise you. They are immigration (19 percent), the economy (9 percent), and inflation (5 percent).
The Economist/YouGov survey asks registered voters to name the issue they find most important. Twenty-one percent say inflation, making it the top issue for the largest slice of voters. In second place is immigration, with 16 percent.
A group of migrants seeking asylum wear t-shirts reading “Biden, please let us in,” while waiting at the international border crossing in San Ysidro, Mexico, on March 2, 2021. (Stringer/picture alliance via Getty Images)
When the Economist/YouGov poll asks voters to evaluate Biden’s handling of immigration, 61 percent say they disapprove. Included in that figure is 45 percent who say they strongly disapprove of Biden on immigration.
That arguably makes immigration his worst issue, followed by inflation at 59 percent disapproval. But that is only arguably because inflation gets a larger share of voters saying they strongly disapprove, at 47 percent.
The Fantasy of Immigration Lowering Inflation
Faced with the prospect of losing the White House due to unpopular inflation and border policies, Democrats and their allies in the establishment media have recently started proclaiming that everyone has it all backwards. Immigration chaos is not another Biden policy crisis; it’s the solution to the inflation crisis.
They argue that immigration will bring down inflation because it increases the supply of labor. The additional supply of labor supposedly pushes down wages, which supposedly pushes down inflation. Bing, bang, boom.
If you are startled to hear that progressives are claiming that immigration pushes down wages, that’s completely understandable. For as long as anyone can remember, the American left (and a nontrivial portion of the corporate-allied American right) has argued that immigrants do not depress the wages of natives. Now that inflation is a problem for Democratic politicians, however, immigrants have somehow discovered how to drag down wages.
In any case, this argument flunks the most basic economic smell test because it depends on a form of single-entry bookkeeping. Immigrants do increase the supply of labor to domestic employers, but they also increase the demand for goods and services offered in the economy. Immigrants can fill jobs, but they need housing, food, schools for their kids, medical care, and transportation just like everyone else.
Migrants heading in a caravan to the United States walk on their way to Mexico City to request asylum and refugee status on October 29, 2021. (ISAAC GUZMAN/AFP via Getty Images)
Unless we have reason to believe that the immigrants are especially productive at work and ascetic in their spending, they are almost certainly consuming as much as they produce, which would make them a wash in terms of the balance of supply and demand. In the near term, however, they are almost certainly consuming more than they produce because they need to be fed and housed immediately but finding jobs that fit their skills will take time. This is one reason the influx of migrants has been such a drain on local government budgets: the demand of the new workers needs to be subsidized, at least in the short term, because their production is inadequate.
What’s more, the current immigration surge is unlikely to be supplying labor where it is most needed. It would be nothing short of miraculous if the chaotic situation along our border were to result in the admission of workers with the skills needed to fill the jobs U.S. employers have open. Most likely, many of the migrants are actually just displacing existing workers at the lowest rungs of the economy—and therefore suppressing wage growth of already low-income Americans—while leaving a very tight labor market at higher levels.
But inflation is not being particularly driven by increased demand from the poorest Americans. So, weighing down the wages of low-income households will not do much to reduce inflation.
A recent analysis from the Brookings Institution looked at the relationship between immigration and inflation and found that it does not reduce pressure on wages or inflation.
“Because in our assessment the increase in immigration resulted in both greater production and greater consumer demand, it likely produced little additional pressure on aggregate prices or wages,” the Brookings study found.
The Relationship of Wages and Inflation Are Complex
In any case, the precise nature of the relationship between wages and inflation is still hotly debated in economics. It’s far from clear that simply holding down wage growth will hold down inflation. Certainly, the surge in inflation in 2021 and 2022 does not seem to have depended on wage changes—nor has the disinflation that lasted from mid-2022 through the middle of last year.
Even if we grant that wages could drive inflation, the mechanism matters for the purposes of evaluating the impact of immigration. While some economists think of wages as a cost of business that can get passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices, the more credible model says that rising wages do not push up inflation but may pull it higher by giving workers more buying power. But in that case, immigration will not reduce inflation because it does not take away from worker income in the aggregate; it just spreads it around.
It’s hard to blame the Democrats for trying. It would be very convenient if they could solve the inflation problem by allowing the immigration crisis to continue. And if they could convince Americans that immigration lowered inflation, maybe they could make some progress in flipping those disapproval ratings. If the Fed would agree with them, maybe interest rates could come down as immigration rates go up.
That’s not going to happen. Migration chaos is a problem. It doesn’t lower inflation, and it certainly will not convince the Fed to lower rates.
Those low wages for illegals are subsidized by my stolen wealth and your stolen wealth (food stamps, government health insurance, housing vouchers, public school, etc.), both through taxation and debt and devaluation. Better late than never… I guess?
Princeton economist with a Nobel under his belt eats crow and does a U-turn on mass migration
Just yesterday, Breitbart News reported on Angus Deaton’s epiphany regarding the mass invasion of illegal foreigners into the American interior; he finally realized that importing millions of freeloaders to our welfare state isn’t such a good thing for the working class taxpayers, or the economy. Deaton is a Princeton economist and a Nobel recipient, so cut him some slack, he’s a little slower than the rest of us—remember, “the road to Hell is paved with Ivy League degrees” and apparently, Nobel Prizes too.
Here’s what Deaton had to say, in an editorial titled “Rethinking My Economics” and published by the International Monetary Fund:
The [economics] profession knows and understands many things. Yet today we are in some disarray. We did not collectively predict the financial crisis and, worse still, we may have contributed to it through an overenthusiastic belief in the efficacy of markets, especially financial markets whose structure and implications we understood less well than we thought.
…
Like many others, I have recently found myself changing my mind, a discomfiting process for someone who has been a practicing economist for more than half a century.
After making a case for how “economists” really have no clue what they’re talking about—that much was obvious when Deaton included “Karl Marx” in a list of economists, and considering that a majority of them assert debt is nothing more than a number—Deaton arrived at several new (to him) realizations. Most importantly, Deaton did a U-turn on his previous support for the mass importation of third-world foreigners into the U.S. homeland:
I had … seriously underthought my ethical judgments about trade-offs between domestic and foreign workers. We certainly have a duty to aid those in distress, but we have additional obligations to our fellow citizens that we do not have to others.
I used to subscribe to the near consensus among economists that immigration to the US was a good thing, with great benefits to the migrants and little or no cost to domestic low-skilled workers. I no longer think so [emphasis added].
Maybe the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ought to dole out another Nobel for his newfound and remarkable command of the obvious.
Deaton “seriously underthought” the ethical implications of a government stealing money from one person at the barrel of a gun, to hand it over to someone else who didn’t earn it? No kidding. How is this possible for such an “educated” guy? Those low wages for illegals are subsidized by my stolen wealth and your stolen wealth (food stamps, government health insurance, housing vouchers, public school, etc.), both through taxation and debt and devaluation. Better late than never… I guess?
Since Deaton is apparently behind the curve, a brief (and basic) economics lesson:
Importing tens of millions of third-world people with no skills and no money into a first world nation with an enshrined welfare state, does not benefit the people of that nation, as the latter are forced to foot the bill.
That’s it, class dismissed.
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Breitbart Business Digest: Younger Workers Turning Against Biden as Unemployment Rises
Americans Sour on Bidenomics
President Joe Biden’s attempt to convince America that Bidenomics is a blessing is not working —especially among younger Americans.
The Conference Board’s index of consumer confidence fell in February following three months of gains. The Rasmussen Reports Economic Index declined sharply enough in March to reverse four months of gains. The University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index slipped lower after climbing for two months.
The Economist/YouGov survey of registered voters found that 51.3 percent say the economy is getting worse, up from 47.5 at the start of the year. Around 23 percent say the economy is staying about the same, and 23 percent say it is getting better, each down a little from the polling released on January 1.
Many pundits have tried to brush off these negative impressions of the economy as merely a function of partisan politics. No doubt, political allegiance certainly plays a role. People are more likely to describe the economy as improving when their party is running the government. But independents are more likely than the average voter to say that the economy is getting worse, at 53.5 percent; so, party allegiance does not explain everything.
Bidenomics Not Getting the Job Done for Younger Americans
The most recent survey by Economist/YouGov shows a very big upswing in registered voters under 30 taking the view that the economy is getting worse. In the poll released on March 4, 37.8 percent of younger voters said the economy was getting worse, and just 23 percent said it was getting better. That’s a big swing from just a few weeks ago, when the same poll found that 39.4 percent said the economy was getting better and 26.8 percent said it was getting worse.
The movement among young voters is so stark that you want to wonder if it is real. Time will have to tell. But the downward movement in other consumer confidence measures suggests that it may be more than noise.
The Economist/YouGov poll also asks voters whether they are better off financially than a year ago. Some analysts think this is a better question than those asking about the state of the economy because it is less likely to be affected by things such as the tone of media coverage. A respondent may not know what’s going on with the national economy, but they probably understand their own situation pretty well.
This also worsened recently. The March 4 poll shows that 42.9 percent say they are worse off financially than a year ago, up from 40.4 percent at the start of the year. That’s not a huge movement, but it does show that the Biden administration’s cheerleading is not improving morale.
The poll also shows a big jump in unhappiness among younger voters. At the start of the year, 34.2 percent of under 30s said they were better off, and 17.7 percent said they were worse off. In the most recent poll, 34.3 percent said they were worse off, and 23.7 said they were better off.
What’s going on with younger Americans? The employment situation appears to have deteriorated among young workers in February. While the overall unemployment rate increased from 3.7 percent to 3.9 percent, for workers between 20 and 24 years old it increased from 5.9 percent to 7.2 percent. That’s the highest unemployment rate for this cohort since December 2022.
The jump was driven by a big increase in unemployment among young women. For women between 20 and 24, unemployment rose from 4.9 percent to 6.4 percent. For young men, it rose from seven percent to 7.9 percent. While those levels are not high by historical standards, the increase is notable in an otherwise tight labor market.
The fact that the economy took a turn for the worse among younger Americans may spell political trouble for Biden. Democrat candidates for president need to do especially well among young voters to win. Biden’s job approval rate among under 30s has plunged from 59.6 percent at the start of the year to 51.6 percent in the most recent Economist/YouGov poll.
Perhaps the most unexpected political development of this year so far is that Biden’s age problem is about youth.
Bidenomics after 37 Months: Six Charts the Media Don’t Want You to See
Liberal media are declaring Bidenomics a success – but, after three years, hard numbers tell a much different story, regardless of whether the measure is how much Americans are paying, earning or saving.
Gas prices:
While gas prices held steady under Pres. Donald Trump (down four cents a gallon), they’ve surged 38% in the first 37 months of Pres. Joe Biden’s term. From January 2021 to February of 2024, the average price of a gallon of gas (all grades) has increased from $2.42 to $3.33, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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