South Dakota pork plant with one
of biggest COVID-19 clusters in US
blames immigrant workers and 'living
circumstances of certain cultures'
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Ariel Zilber
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
4/21/2020 12:09:21 PM
A meat-processing company which shut down a South Dakota plant after more than 700 employees became infected with COVID-19 said the outbreak was due to the factory’s ‘large immigrant population’. Smithfield Foods blamed the migrant workers' ‘living circumstances’ that are ‘different than they are with your traditional American family.’ The company said the indefinite closure of the pork plant in Sioux Falls disrupted its supply chain, forcing the closure of a facility in Martin City, Missouri. Smithfield also shuttered a plant in Cudahy, Wisconsin, after employees tested positive for the virus. South Dakota's governor said the temporary closure of the plant
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Noj15 4/21/2020 12:15:20 PM (No. 386620)
Dear President Trump, it's time to nationalize these companies.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bad-hair 4/21/2020 12:21:50 PM (No. 386633)
Hi Smithfield. You mean the ILLEGAL immigrant workers ? The ones you hire apparently by the busload ? for peanuts and the employment of whom is also ILLEGAL. Cry me a river. There's better bacon out there. PS Tyson's, re-think your business plan.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 4/21/2020 12:25:54 PM (No. 386636)
@#1: No!! Are you nuts? You'd rather the govt run these types of companies? Why??
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 4/21/2020 12:32:01 PM (No. 386641)
If all those employees are illegal aliens, deport them.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
janjan 4/21/2020 12:41:59 PM (No. 386650)
#1 It will never be time to nationalize any companies. The idea that the government could even run one company successfully is laughable. We are not socialists. Yet.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/21/2020 12:50:04 PM (No. 386654)
Cleverly buried in the article, the only hint of who these immigrants are and where they are from. As the article says, they all live together in the same buildings, sometimes in the same apartments…
One employee, Michael Bul Gayo Gatluak, a 22-year-old immigrant from South Sudan, told BuzzFeed he tested positive for coronavirus on April 13.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 4/21/2020 12:58:06 PM (No. 386664)
Like I said a few days ago. Illegal aliens, living 10 or more to a single family home.
Surprise.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 4/21/2020 12:58:29 PM (No. 386666)
Test.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Jed 4/21/2020 1:03:24 PM (No. 386674)
We invited the 3rd world in, now we have 3rd world conditions. What happened?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Lazyman 4/21/2020 1:04:56 PM (No. 386676)
The Daily Mail doesn't even bother to inform their readers that this a Chinese company.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/21/2020 1:08:19 PM (No. 386680)
FTA:
One employee, Michael Bul Gayo Gatluak, a 22-year-old immigrant from South Sudan, told BuzzFeed he tested positive for coronavirus on April 13.
He went on to say that he stood very close to other employees on the hog kill line.
The article also tells us that these immigrants live very close together, in the same buildings, often in the same apartments.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Luandir 4/21/2020 1:09:09 PM (No. 386681)
#1, are you saying we should become MORE like the Chinese who caused this problem?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bad-hair 4/21/2020 1:23:25 PM (No. 386694)
So it's the "immigrants' " fault. You mean the ILLEGAL immigrants whom it is ILLEGAL for you to hire and pay peanuts ? Who you pack on your processing lines shoulder to shoulder ? And the governor says "That's a shame." And your bacon actually sucks, there's a lot better out there. Shut down, change the name, file bankruptcy and try to sneak back on the market. I will as usual actually leave the Smithfield crap on the shelf.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/21/2020 1:25:29 PM (No. 386696)
The big meat parking plants in Nebraska and South Dakota effected by the corona virus, JBS at Grand Island, NE and Greeley, CO, and the Smithfield Foods at Sioux Falls, SD are owned and operated by foreign entities. JBS by Brazil and Smithfield Foods by Communist China. Those corporations are in business to make as much of a profit as possible, and have little interest in local communities. In the case of China it creates a supply chain to export pork to China.
As the article points out those plants are very labor intensive with the vast majority of their line workers being legal immigrants, or illegal aliens who have presented either bogus or fraudulent identification and work authorization documentation to the employers who then hired them. In that respect, under the employer sanctions laws passed in 1986, employers must check those documents anytime they hire anyone, but are prohibited from competently verifying that the documents they are shown are valid or are being presented by the same person to who they were validly issued. In other words employers must essentially hire anyone who applies, or risk being charged with national origin discrimination if the person they deny employment to is of foreign origin. Those loopholes were put in the law by the UniParty Congress to essentially sabotage effective enforcement of that law, and to ensure that illegal aliens could continue to get hired into low wage jobs across the USA.
Immigrants both illegal and legal generally live in low income communities in large dense family groups in older houses and apartments. It is not out of the ordinary to find six or eight illegal alien males living together in a two bedroom apartments. While the immigrant men, and some of the immigrant women in meat packing towns work at the plants, other women work for commercial cleaning companies, that gives them access to locations like rest homes filled with elderly people. As Colorado, Nebraska, and South Dakota among other States are finding out, once the corona virus gets going in such immigrant communities, because of the close contact and densely packed immigrant way of life the virus spreads like wildfire. That’s where we are today!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Northcross 4/21/2020 1:32:15 PM (No. 386707)
"It's these darn workers that we hired under the table and off the books. They are the problem", management helpfully replied.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
worried 4/21/2020 1:36:35 PM (No. 386713)
No way, #1. We aren't a socialist or communist country, where they nationalize business. Only if you want a company to go bankrupt would you do that.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
halfnorsk 4/21/2020 1:40:08 PM (No. 386714)
None of this surprises me.
My work (currently laid off) takes me to many such factories. Every restroom has signs instructing how to use a toilet, with warnings to not throw used toilet paper on the floor.
Not every immigrant has poor hygiene, but some do. And they go home to crowded housing. So a virus can spread easily.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Captain Howdy 4/21/2020 1:43:25 PM (No. 386720)
Are they burning down their subsidized housing by lighting fires in the bathtubs to barbecue their goats or tearing the doors off their kitchen cabinets to make roosts for their chickens yet? Did I mention subsidized housing? I'm sure the people of S.D. are thrilled about the cultural diversity they are enjoying.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 4/21/2020 1:45:05 PM (No. 386721)
Sorry South Dakota
NO Chinese Smithfield ever for this family
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Michaelus 4/21/2020 2:06:59 PM (No. 386743)
I am surprised the "management" did not add "we told the Mexicans to buy spacious homes but they insisted on living 3 to 4 per cheap apartment". If you cannot afford a nice house on your minimum wage salary it is a cultural problem you see.
Shut them down forever. Want a baconator? Pay a man to slaughter a pig. Or do it yourself.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Vesicant 4/21/2020 2:08:36 PM (No. 386745)
"Living circumstances that are different than they are with your traditional American family" -- so they were all Democrats?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
HPmatt 4/21/2020 2:15:55 PM (No. 386749)
Smithfield foods - bought by Chicoms - about 15 years ago.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 4/21/2020 2:26:17 PM (No. 386756)
I have personally seen twenty illegals living in a three bedroom home and they actually used the attic for a bedroom and pulled in as many mattresses as they could fit up there for them to sleep. Overcrowding? I was surprised the ceiling joists didn't fail and crash everyone down to the floor.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
EQKimball 4/21/2020 2:34:56 PM (No. 386758)
Poorer households often have more occupants, but in some societies unmarried daughters and grandparents would be living there anyway. I won't comment on the circumstance of undocumented relatives living in the garage, because it would be politically incorrect.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 4/21/2020 2:42:21 PM (No. 386762)
#1 I have a better idea. Hire the MSM "journalists" to work there. They can butcher ANYTHING!
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
TXknitter 4/21/2020 2:42:46 PM (No. 386763)
Community leaders with sense would have said this long ago and dealt with it were it not for the poison of political correctness. Although its always always discussed as coming from a heart of concern for people, political correctness or lack of telling the truth, actually can kill people.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 4/21/2020 2:44:15 PM (No. 386764)
Just hire "journalists" from the major news media to work in the meatpacking plants. They can butcher anything to make it unrecognizable.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
JackBurton 4/21/2020 2:49:47 PM (No. 386771)
Just a thought.... but if they cleaned up the plant, did the full sterilization routine (which I believe should be required for a food processor) and then put out a 'help wanted' sign,
they could replace all those illegals with Americans eager to have the work. Like, tomorrow.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
DVC 4/21/2020 4:05:42 PM (No. 386845)
If you look at the county map in Kansas, all the western counties have zero or 1 cases.....except for Finney, Seward and Ford counties, all with big meat packing plants, lots of illegals. There are COVID-19 clusters in those meat packing companies.
Surprised? Not me. DEPORT ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS. ALL of them.
https://www.salina.com/news/20200419/kansas-beefs-up-testing-at-infection-clusters-linked-to-meat-processing-plants
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
DVC 4/21/2020 4:15:21 PM (No. 386863)
And not minor numbers, either. In parts of the state with mostly zero cases or one case per county,
Finney County has 41 cases, Seward County has 96 cases and Ford County has 188 cases.
This is in a state with 2,000 total cases, and we have 325 in three sparsely populated counties with all adjacent counties having zero or nearly so. All the seven counties adjacent to Ford County have ZERO cases.
So these meat packing plants account for 1/6th of all the cases in Kansas.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
hershey 4/21/2020 4:19:16 PM (No. 386871)
A well, we still have Hormel for our bacon...is that called 'saving your bacon'???
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Merlin251 4/21/2020 4:42:38 PM (No. 386896)
The COVID-19 outbreak at that South Dakota Pork Plant occurred just weeks after a Chinese Communist Party delegation toured the plant they had just purchased. Once again, all roads lead back to China!!!
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/21/2020 4:57:15 PM (No. 386924)
Maybe if they were paid a real wage they wouldn't have to cluster a family of 10 in 2 rooms...just say'n...
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 4/21/2020 5:34:10 PM (No. 386958)
Socialist troll on board.
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People do what you let them. Guess who hired them ? Do we even have plant inspectors anymore ?
Fine the owners of any business that hires illegals.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
DVC 4/21/2020 9:01:40 PM (No. 387126)
#34, the reason that Americans "just won't do those jobs" is because the wages are low, working conditions poor. The companies are looking for illegals very specifically by locating these huge plants where there are no local American workers is because they WANT illegals, because of their willingness to accept low wages.
If they wanted American workers, they'd build where there are
Americans living, not in tiny towns with no possibility of providing labor from the local population.
For example, Japanese car makers build their plants near medium sized cities in the SE where Americans live, and can work for them.
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