West Virginia: Is Catholic Charities bringing in foreign laborers for a poultry plant to compete with Americans?

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West Virginia: Is Catholic Charities bringing in foreign laborers for a poultry plant to compete with Americans?

Posted by Ann Corcoran on September 26, 2016

Here are some of the facts as we know them:

West Virginia is a relatively new resettlement state which has received only 176 refugees in the last ten fiscal years.

However, in addition to Catholic Charities resettling refugees, Episcopal Migration Ministries wants to open a new office in Charleston.  Presently CC has three locations and one of those is in Moorefield, WV.
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This is the magnificent headquarters building Brazilian-owned JBS has in Greeley, CO. JBS owns most of Pilgrim’s Pride. So think about it! If you have Pilgrim’s Pride or any other JBS company in your town, it is being changed so a foreign-owned company can have cheap/compliant/foreign labor. (This is a photograph I took as I passed through Greeley on my RRW road trip this summer.)

 

What else is in Moorefield? I’ll tell you! There is a Pilgrim’s Pride poultry plant located there.

Here are some things we know about Pilgrim’s Pride:

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2016/09/26/west-virginia-is-catholic-charities-bringing-in-foreign-laborers-for-a-poultry-plant-to-compete-with-americans/

[Smokin Joe]

An article which goes into the origins and development of the Refugee Resettlement Industry (which includes organizations like CC and LSS) can be found here: http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_23_4/tsc_23_4_rubenstein.shtml

The numbers, origins, and grant amounts are from 2012, but the origin and development of the mess we have can be traced up to 2012, including much of how these programs work.

It sure looks to me like people leaving 'the plantation' are being replaced, or displaced by people from elsewhere who have no qualms about working 'dirty jobs' for lower pay and less than what Americans have come to consider as 'standard' working conditions. Some of the demand may be fueled by backlash against unionized labor, but in some cases (at least), the majority stockholders of the companies involved are outside the US.

Religiously affiliated NGOs have long been involved in refugee resettlement. Prior to 1980 they bore the full cost of refugee resettlement. [Edwards—See table below] In 1980 they became eligible for a Reception and Placement Grant (RPG) to help defray the costs of resettling refugees for the first few months after their arrival.

(from the link I have provided) table below:



Rubenstein goes on to say:

You think Volags [voluntary agencies] are charities? Think again. David Robinson, the Director of the State Department’s Refugee Bureau, writes this about the refugee component of Catholic Charities: “The federal government provides about 90 percent of its collective budget,” and its lobbying umbrella “wields enormous influence over the administration’s refugee admissions policy. It lobbies the Hill effectively to increase the number of refugees admitted for permanent resettlement each year…. If there is a conflict of interest, it is never mentioned…The solution its members offer to every refugee crisis is simplistic and the same: Increase the number of admissions to the United States without regard to budgets.”8

Refugee nonprofits are quite profitable. Fifty-eight percent of Catholic Charities’ budget goes to salaries, including $150,000 to its director.

[Smokin Joe]

A little more up to date (Oct 2015) From http://cis.org/opedsandArticles/Vaughan-Help-Refugees-but-Stop-Feeding-the-Refugee-Resettlement-Industry

The resettlement agencies and their federal funders boast that most refugees become self-sufficient within four months, which is conveniently about the time that the direct federal support grants run out and the responsibilities of the refugee contractors end. The Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program, for example, claims that 92 percent of the refugees it assisted in 2014 became economically "self-sufficient" within 120 days. They earned an average wage of $9.66 an hour. But, according to the MIT living-wage calculator, a person really needs to make $11.13 per hour to live in Vermont, and more like $23 per hour to support a small family there. What the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Programs call self-sufficiency in fact entails dependency on public welfare.

Earlier this year, a Congressional Research Service report found that 74 percent of the refugees who arrived in the past five years were on food stamps, 56 percent were accessing Medicaid, 47 percent were receiving cash assistance, and 23 percent were in public housing. Only 11 percent were getting health insurance through an employer. Other studies have shown that refugees are twice as likely to be unemployed as the rest of the population. The Heritage Foundation has calculated that the 10,000 Syrians who would be admitted under the president's plan would eventually collect about $6.5 billion in services over the next 50 years. Much of that would be borne by local communities.

It's no surprise that most refugees are dependent on government support. Most arrive destitute, and many have had little opportunity for education. By definition, they faced persecution or some other trauma in their homeland. They deserve our compassion and need a hand. But if local communities are expected to provide most of the support, surely they deserve a say in the process. Right now they have none.

The Refugee Act of 1980 transformed refugee resettlement from a largely charitable endeavor into a huge government-grant program carried out by organizations that are classified as non-profits but should be more accurately described as government contractors. Communities do not choose to host refugees; they are chosen by the contractors.

[Smokin Joe]

And even more information (August 2016) here: http://investmentwatchblog.com/refugee-resettlement-industrys-propaganda-campaign-accelerates-with-dc-rally-leftist-organization-to-press-congress-to-bring-200000-refugees/

The politically powerful refugee resettlement industry is accelerating its propaganda campaign to significantly increase the number of Muslim refugees allowed into the United States with a rally in Washington, D.C., on August 28.

“You have got to hand it to them (to the likes of George Soros and big progressive funders like the Tides Foundation), they know how to promote a propaganda campaign,” Ann Corcoran of Refugee Resettlement Watch says of the August 28 event.

The financial backers of the rally include most of the big political players in the lucrative refugee resettlement industry, where government funded “voluntary agencies” [VOLAGs] receive more than $1 billion from taxpayers annually to resettle on average 70,000 refugees each year in the United States.

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I would like to buy an 'are'. That is one horrible headline.