Originally Posted by california rick
Is that true, this is common to migrants in the SE of the U.S.? The employer should be jailed. No wait, fined, then jailed. How do you think Tyson is keeping their employees? I've heard some pretty nasty stories about Tyson and immigrants.
Yes, I've heard some pretty nasty stories about Tyson as well. I've heard that they hire a lot of undocumented immigrants, and have a "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Familiar term, eh?

As far as the experience of undocumented workers in the Southeast, I can only relate from my own experience what I have been told by two friends who work with migrants in the apple orchards of nearby Henderson County. I have heard that the workers sleep either in tents in the field or in the warehouses, not in the backs of vans, and that they have no sanitary facilities. I have heard that most are undocumented, and their employers (if that is the correct term) claim that they "could not compete" if they had to pay higher wages.

Steve
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