If Immigrants Don’t Steal Jobs, Why Is Tyson Closing US Plants and Hiring 84K Immigrants This Year?

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If Immigrants Don’t Steal Jobs, Why Is Tyson Closing US Plants and Hiring 84K Immigrants This Year?

One of the major reasons that conservatives and right-wing thinkers oppose mass immigration is the disruption it causes to the native labor market. It’s very common that when swaths of unskilled laborers come across the border, American workers will see negative effects in response. That’s exactly what’s occurring as Tyson Foods laid off 1,300 staffers between their poultry- and meat-processing plants in Iowa, Virginia, Arkansas, Indiana and Mis…