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Refugee working at Tyson Foods died of TB « Refugee Resettlement Watch
In light of the previous post, Somalis arrive in Emporia with tuberculosis, an article from last January in the Emporia Gazette is relevant. In Tyson worker had TB, reporter Bobbi Mlynar writes:
A coroner’s report says that an active case of tuberculosis was a factor in the death of a Tyson worker on Jan. 4 at the Emporia plant.
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According to information this morning from the Lyon County Health Department, the department and Tyson Foods are taking precautionary measures in the case, which remains under investigation. The name of the worker, a 20-year-old man, has not been released.
CJOnline - Somalis arrive in Emporia with tuberculosis
MPORIA — When hundreds of Somali refugees began showing up to work at the meatpacking plant, nurses Lori Torres and Renee Hively were among the first to get to know the exotic, new arrivals.
"We got notified a day in advance that 70 Somalis were being transferred from a (Tyson Foods) plant in Nebraska," Hively recalled. "That 70 soon grew into 400, seemingly overnight."
The Associated Press: After raid, Iowa town deals with Somali immigrants
Scores of Somali immigrants are taking jobs at the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant, replacing Hispanic workers arrested in a huge immigration raid and forcing a remote Iowa town to make another cultural shift.
Before the May 12 raid at Agriproc
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Scores of Somali immigrants are taking jobs at the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant, replacing Hispanic workers arrested in a huge immigration raid and forcing a remote Iowa town to make another cultural shift.
Before the May 12 raid at Agriprocessors, hundreds of Mexican and Guatemalan immigrants maintained a vibrant community in Postville, a largely white community of 2,200 people in northeast Iowa.
Now the stoops and haunts once occupied by Hispanics are being filled by about 150 Somali men.
Aydurus Farah, a 21-year-old who immigrated from Somalia in 2004, set out for work in meatpacking plants to make money for his family back home in Somalia.
He planned to begin work at Agriprocessors this week, drawn from Minneapolis to Postville by the promised wages.
"They said over there they pay like 13 dollars an hour, very good money," Farah said as he stood outside Sabor Latino, a popular Mexican restaurant.
Somalis filling jobs left by raid on illegals at Iowa plant (OneNewsNow.com)
POSTVILLE, Iowa - Nearly three months after a federal immigration raid uprooted almost 400 employees at a meatpacking plant in northeastern Iowa, dozens of Somali immigrants are slowly but steadily filling the depleted ranks left by the arrested workers.
Africa is giving nothing to anyone -- apart from AIDS - Kevin Myers, Columnists - Independent.ie
No. It will not do. Even as we see African states refusing to take action to restore something resembling civilisation in Zimbabwe, the begging bowl for Ethiopia is being passed around to us, yet again. It is nearly 25 years since Ethiopia's (and Bob Geld
Where is the UN on Christian refugees? « Refugee Resettlement Watch
Wouldn’t these Christians seem to be good candidates for refugee status? I know that many have emigrated to the United States, probably because they have family members here. There must be others who live under constant threat and have nowhere to go. In
More health problems than we’ve been told about « Refugee Resettlement Watch
A December 9 article on Newsmax, Small Towns Grapple with Diseased Immigrants, gives us some new facts about refugee health problems that contradict what we were told by State Department officials and agency representatives. After a worker died of TB at
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Peggy Mast said the federal government should conduct more thorough health screenings before allowing refugees into the U.S. And she said there should be “mandatory cultural education to help refugees assimilate.” Yes! She talked to the district’s Congressman, Jerry Moran, about the problems, but he told her that health and safety issues were the state’s responsibility, not the federal government’s.
She said she received more help from the mayor of Lewiston, Maine, a city of 36,000 that has a similar enclave of 1,200 Somali refugees — with 50 percent of them unemployed.
“Lewiston has asked Congress for more funding,” Mast says. “We look down the road and see the problems they can create. Unemployed single males with nothing to do.”
So the federal government can bring in as many refugees as Congress decides on, and dump them into small cities all across America, and leave state and local officials to deal with the huge problems this creates, and the local citizens to their disrupted and increasingly dangerous lives. We hope Peggy Mast stays on the issue, and holds some people to account.
For more on health issues involving refugees see our entire health category
Leprosy watch « Refugee Resettlement Watch
- The medical community is warning the public: a leprosy outbreak in Springdale could blossom into an epidemic, if something isn’t done soon.Doctors say at least nine cases of leprosy have been confirmed in Springdale. Local doctors say they would be sho
Ft. Wayne, IN columnist suggests public forum « Refugee Resettlement Watch
We have been advocating reform of the Refugee Act of 1980 by requiring a Social and Economic Impact Statement for a locale in advance of refugees arriving. This could be patterned after the National Environmental Policy Act which mandates an Environment
2005 Annual Report of the International Institute 2005 Annual Report of the International Institute
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at www.iistl.org
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Now refugees with home-based businesses have anarray of administrative services and a business location without the expense of becoming tenants. Business Links was alsoawarded a major grant from Hewlett-Packard. HP provided $150,000 in technology and services so we can provide training and technical assistance to refugee entrepreneurs. The mobile training lab and other state-of-the-art equipment are also available for use by other Institute departments. - 2 more annotations...
Why Is The UN Determining Who Becomes Humanitarian Refugees In The US? - New English Review
Since 1976, more than 2.6 million new citizens have entered America as legal humanitarian refugees according to reports of the US State Department.\n\nHumanitarian refugees have literally won the proverbial lottery. Typically, they receive green cards as
Waterbury still buzzing over refugee problems, buzz is heard in Tennessee « Refugee Resettlement Watch
The Republican-American in Waterbury, CT has an update on the situation there regarding complaints by Burmese Karen refugees that they have not received decent treatment from the International Institute of CT. Yesterday we reported on a critical report fr
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Obscurity and confinement for migrants in Europe - Print Version - International Herald Tribune
hey are in railroad depots. They are in old grain stores and recycled factories. Some are brand new, others are in adjuncts of prisons. One is on a ship anchored in the Dutch port of Rotterdam.
From Ireland to Bulgaria, from Finland to Spain, detention c
Quebec town's rules anger minorities
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HEROUXVILLE, Quebec, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- A southern Quebec town is being accused of xenophobia for issuing a statement telling minorities they are welcome only if they conform to the local lifestyle.
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The town council of Herouxville issued a set of wide-ranging rules for immigrants this week that resulted in protests from Muslims, Jews, Sikhs and Jehovah's Witnesses, a Globe and Mail correspondent reported.
Officials for the town of 1,300, about 100 miles northeast of Montreal, said in their statement such practices as isolating boys and girls and women and men is not allowed and that covering the face is banned except at Halloween.
"Don't be surprised, this is normal for us," the statement said.
The town also criticized Muslim halal and Jewish kosher dietary requirements.
"If our children eat meat, for example, they don't need to know where it came from or who killed it. Our people eat to nourish the body, not the soul," the councilors wrote.
The newspaper said Sikhs were angered by the town's refusal to recognize the ceremonial daggers called kirpans men wear on their legs, while Jehovah's Witnesses protested the town saying doctors didn't require permission to perform blood transfusions.
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