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If you are a democrat, how does this piece make you feel? Do you disagree? Here are some parts from the broadcast (kinda long but easy to read):
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123811962
So what do Democrats think? Harmful to their platform? I know there is that old mantra that immigrants aren’t taking the “good jobs.” Ultimately I think that translates into they aren’t taking MY predominately white middle class job. Low skill labor in factories like above seem to have competition. And that doesn’t bode well for the large numbers of low skill labor in the black communities.
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rofessor CAROL SWAIN (Law, Vanderbilt University; Author, Debating Immigration): Thank you.
MARTIN: Cord, now you sight the case of a North Carolina poultry producer that went from having a workforce that was 80 percent immigrant, presumably immigrant Latino, to 70 percent African-American in a very short period of time. Now, how did that happen and why did that happen?
Mr. JEFFERSON: There is an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid in October of 2008 that came in and found 300 undocumented workers at the Raeford Farms, Columbia Farms processing plant in Columbia, South Carolina. And Raeford Farms was presumably spooked by that as they had been hiring undocumented immigrants for all their plants. And they systematically began firing all their undocumented workers in within less than a year. What had been an 80 percent Latino production line became a 70 percent African-American production line.
MARTIN: Is this what gave you the idea?
Mr. JEFFERSON: What gave me the idea was seeing the unemployment rates skyrocket in this country, especially for American-Americans overall, but also African-American male unemployment is almost at 20 percent now. I mean, thats shocking.
MARTIN: Thats right. Im sure that the plant would argue that they werent hiring illegal immigrants. And if they were, they thought that their papers were in order and so forth. There are those who would argue that thats an isolated case. Youre making the broader argument that illegal immigration, a high rate of illegal immigration is disproportionately affecting African-Americans. Why do you think thats so?
Mr. JEFFERSON: I think that, unfortunately, African-Americans are disproportionately low skilled. And African-Americans are disproportionately low educated. And those are the jobs that illegal immigrants are most often taking. And so I think that African-Americans who are low skilled and low educated who are out looking for employment in this sort of economy, they are competing with illegal immigrants of which there are millions. And so, I think that thats why theyre disproportionately affected by this.
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123811962
So what do Democrats think? Harmful to their platform? I know there is that old mantra that immigrants aren’t taking the “good jobs.” Ultimately I think that translates into they aren’t taking MY predominately white middle class job. Low skill labor in factories like above seem to have competition. And that doesn’t bode well for the large numbers of low skill labor in the black communities.
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