Black Farm Workers Sue Farm Company For Replacing Them With Foreign Workers

[2aguy]

Here's an ironic story. Black farm workers in Mississippi are suing Pitts Farms for replacing them with foreign workers here in the US on H-2A work visas.

Now wait just a damned minute......don't they want to get away from toiling in the fields? My wife was born in Alabama during the Great Depression. Her family worked in the fields from Sun up to Sun down every day...unless it started raining....then they couldn't work. That was the only time they were allowed to go to school. She got married when she was in her early teens to get away from that kind of life.

Now it appears that some blacks are upset that all of these foreigners are coming into the United States and taking their jobs.

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"In interviews with the New York Times, black Americans said they had spent most of their lives earning a living as farm workers at Pitts Farms. The work is part of a long history wherein black Americans along the Mississippi Delta have spent grueling hours on farms doing intense physical labor.​

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One of the black Americans suing Pitts Farms, 50-year-old Richard Strong, told the Times that he has worked on farms for more than 25 years. His father and grandfather did so as well, as well as his enslaved ancestors.​

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Strong said about 10 years ago is when he noticed farms along the Mississippi Delta began importing foreign visa workers, almost entirely from South Africa. When the first groups arrived, Strong said he helped train them. Now, more than 100 U.S. farms along the Delta employ foreign visa workers from South Africa over Americans.​

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An expert on the H-2A visa program told the Times that “virtually all new workers entering the agriculture workforce these days are H-2A workers.” A recruiter for the H-2A visa program called the imported South Africans are “the preferred group” over Americans."​

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For many years, [Pitts Farms] employed a majority Black workforce. As of 2014, however, this number has steadily dwindled, as [Pitts Farms] began applying for and hiring white South Africans for the same work. And since 2014, PFP has used the H-2A program to hire only white South Africans – no black South Africans – although that country too is majority black by a wide margin: estimates stand at around 80% Black compared to less than 8% white. [Emphasis added]​

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"By 2020, Strong said he was fired by Pitt Farms, as were the other American workers, including his brother Gregory, who had also spent most of his life working at the farm.​

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“I never did imagine that it would come to the point where they would be hiring foreigners, instead of people like me,” Strong told the Times. “… It’s like being robbed of your heritage.”​

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“I gave them half my life and ended up with nothing,” Gregory said.​

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The lawsuit states that while Strong and his American counterparts were paid the minimum wage of $7.25 an hour and $8.25 an hour on weekends, the foreign visa workers were given nearly $12 an hour.​

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As the lawsuit gains traction, President Joe Biden’s administration has expanded the H-2A visa program. This week, for example, Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that U.S. farms will be allowed to import foreign visa workers from six additional countries, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mauritius, and Saint Lucia.​

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DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas justified the expansion as a way for U.S. farms to import more foreign visa workers when Americans “are not available” to do the work.​

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The H-2A visa program, much like the H-2B visa program for non-agricultural work, has been proven to undercut working class Americans who rely on manual labor jobs but who are forced to compete against a growing number of cheaper, foreign workers."​

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Black Americans Sue U.S. Farms for Replacing Them with Foreigners

Farmworkers are suing their former employer after they were replaced by imported, foreign workers on the H-2A visa program.

www.breitbart.com

And you know what else is funny......black Americans are voting over 95% for democrats...the party importing the illegal aliens taking those jobs....

 

[pknopp]

And you know what else is funny......black Americans are voting over 95% for democrats...the party importing the illegal aliens taking those jobs....

This has nothing to do with people coming here illegally. But again, as I said...................

 

[mudwhistle]

You're ignorant.

Foreign agricultural workers can qualify for an H-2A visa if they meet the following requirements:

They received a temporary job offer for the agricultural sector from a United States employer.
They demonstrate their intention to return to their country of origin before their visa expires.
They are citizens of any of the countries legally authorized to offer agricultural labor. Review the following list here.
▷ H-2A visa - Temporary agricultural workers - 2021 info | Lluis Law
www.lluislaw.com/h-2a-visa/

Most of us already know this.
These visas are designed to get in the crops cheaply.....during seasonal periods.
That is when American farm workers do most of their work....during the harvesting season.
They're hiring foreigners to do that work now.
The point seems to be that Blacks support Democrats....and yet they are being screwed by Democrats at every turn.
That is my point.

 

[2aguy]

This has nothing to do with people coming here illegally. But again, as I said...................

Yeah...it does......blacks vote for the democrats who support illegal immigration and increased immigration of all kinds.........so they are voting against their own intersests...

 

[pknopp]

Yeah...it does......blacks vote for the democrats who support illegal immigration and increased immigration of all kinds.........so they are voting against their own intersests...

Both parties support this.

He was promised a job in the U.S. He found himself trapped in a nightmare.

 

[mudwhistle]

Most of us already know this.
These visas are designed to get in the crops cheaply.....during seasonal periods.
That is when American farm workers do most of their work....during the harvesting season.
They're hiring foreigners to do that work now.
The point seems to be that Blacks support Democrats....and yet they are being screwed by Democrats at every turn.
That is my point.

Only problem is once they get into the US they overstay their visas or attempt to stay by other means.

 

[Mac-7]

You're ignorant.

Foreign agricultural workers can qualify for an H-2A visa if they meet the following requirements:

They received a temporary job offer for the agricultural sector from a United States employer.
They demonstrate their intention to return to their country of origin before their visa expires.
They are citizens of any of the countries legally authorized to offer agricultural labor. Review the following list here.
▷ H-2A visa - Temporary agricultural workers - 2021 info | Lluis Law
www.lluislaw.com/h-2a-visa/

They are scabs who put Americans out of work

If our workers were fully employed you could at least argue that the H2-a’s were needed

But there are millions of able bodied citizens on welfare who can do those jobs

 

[Care4all]

Here's an ironic story. Black farm workers in Mississippi are suing Pitts Farms for replacing them with foreign workers here in the US on H-2A work visas.

Now wait just a damned minute......don't they want to get away from toiling in the fields? My wife was born in Alabama during the Great Depression. Her family worked in the fields from Sun up to Sun down every day...unless it started raining....then they couldn't work. That was the only time they were allowed to go to school. She got married when she was in her early teens to get away from that kind of life.

Now it appears that some blacks are upset that all of these foreigners are coming into the United States and taking their jobs.

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"In interviews with the New York Times, black Americans said they had spent most of their lives earning a living as farm workers at Pitts Farms. The work is part of a long history wherein black Americans along the Mississippi Delta have spent grueling hours on farms doing intense physical labor.​

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One of the black Americans suing Pitts Farms, 50-year-old Richard Strong, told the Times that he has worked on farms for more than 25 years. His father and grandfather did so as well, as well as his enslaved ancestors.​

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Strong said about 10 years ago is when he noticed farms along the Mississippi Delta began importing foreign visa workers, almost entirely from South Africa. When the first groups arrived, Strong said he helped train them. Now, more than 100 U.S. farms along the Delta employ foreign visa workers from South Africa over Americans.​

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An expert on the H-2A visa program told the Times that “virtually all new workers entering the agriculture workforce these days are H-2A workers.” A recruiter for the H-2A visa program called the imported South Africans are “the preferred group” over Americans."​

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For many years, [Pitts Farms] employed a majority Black workforce. As of 2014, however, this number has steadily dwindled, as [Pitts Farms] began applying for and hiring white South Africans for the same work. And since 2014, PFP has used the H-2A program to hire only white South Africans – no black South Africans – although that country too is majority black by a wide margin: estimates stand at around 80% Black compared to less than 8% white. [Emphasis added]​

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"By 2020, Strong said he was fired by Pitt Farms, as were the other American workers, including his brother Gregory, who had also spent most of his life working at the farm.​

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“I never did imagine that it would come to the point where they would be hiring foreigners, instead of people like me,” Strong told the Times. “… It’s like being robbed of your heritage.”​

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“I gave them half my life and ended up with nothing,” Gregory said.​

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The lawsuit states that while Strong and his American counterparts were paid the minimum wage of $7.25 an hour and $8.25 an hour on weekends, the foreign visa workers were given nearly $12 an hour.​

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As the lawsuit gains traction, President Joe Biden’s administration has expanded the H-2A visa program. This week, for example, Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that U.S. farms will be allowed to import foreign visa workers from six additional countries, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mauritius, and Saint Lucia.​

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DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas justified the expansion as a way for U.S. farms to import more foreign visa workers when Americans “are not available” to do the work.​

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The H-2A visa program, much like the H-2B visa program for non-agricultural work, has been proven to undercut working class Americans who rely on manual labor jobs but who are forced to compete against a growing number of cheaper, foreign workers."​

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Black Americans Sue U.S. Farms for Replacing Them with Foreigners

Farmworkers are suing their former employer after they were replaced by imported, foreign workers on the H-2A visa program.

www.breitbart.com

someone needs to enforce the law.....these farm visas are NOT suppose to replace Americans....the farm owners are breaking the law.

He should win his suit.

 

[mudwhistle]

someone needs to enforce the law.....these farm visas are NOT suppose to replace Americans....the farm owners are breaking the law.

He should win his suit.

Yep.....and I figure they'll lose their farms cutting off the food supply coming out of Mississippi.
Then the Socialists in Washington will take over his farm like they took over Chrysler and GM.

The problem here seems to be government making these programs available.

 

[mudwhistle]

They are scabs who put Americans out of work

If our workers were fully employed you could at least argue that the H2-a’s were needed

But there are millions of able bodied citizens on welfare who can do those jobs

Obama changed the work requirement.

 

[surada]

Most of us already know this.
These visas are designed to get in the crops cheaply.....during seasonal periods.
That is when American farm workers do most of their work....during the harvesting season.
They're hiring foreigners to do that work now.
The point seems to be that Blacks support Democrats....and yet they are being screwed by Democrats at every turn.
That is my point.

Most black people are no longer seasonal farm workers.

 

[surada]

someone needs to enforce the law.....these farm visas are NOT suppose to replace Americans....the farm owners are breaking the law.

He should win his suit.

Have you read the law? I posted two links to this thread.

 

[mudwhistle]

Most black people are no longer seasonal farm workers.

So....the fuck....what!!!!
I guess you have no problem with these folks getting screwed over though.....as long as it's not most blacks.

 

[surada]

So....the fuck....what!!!!
I guess you have no problem with these folks getting screwed over though.....as long as it's not most blacks.

I am not aware of any able bodied men on welfare. When its time to pick beans do they go off welfare?

 

[Care4all]

Have you read the law? I posted two links to this thread.

No, not yet but I do know the employers can NOT file and request these visas to REPLACE American workers, but only to fill spots where Americans won't take the job.

This man and his brother ARE Americans, who were let go, while the employer filled the jobs with h visa workers.

If the article was accurate, then the employer broke the law, no?

 

[mudwhistle]

I am not aware of any able bodied men on welfare. When its time to pick beans do they go off welfare?

Why would they pick beans if they're on welfare?
Welfare prevents them from working.
It also prevents families from living together.
That's how Democrats tore apart the black family unit.
They instituted a rule that the father couldn't live in the home with his family.
Black men in Africa don't raise their kids anyway. They leave that to their wives.

 

[surada]

According to the article the black workers are getting minimum wage while foreign workers are getting $12/hr.

$7.50... Brietbart is trying to influence black people who don't have much education. Same tactic as Trump.

 

[surada]

No, not yet but I do know the employers can NOT file and request these visas to REPLACE American workers, but only to fill spots where Americans won't take the job.

This man and his brother ARE Americans, who were let go, while the employer filled the jobs with h visa workers.

If the article was accurate, then the employer broke the law, no?

The article is Brietbart.

 

[Mac-7]

Here's an ironic story. Black farm workers in Mississippi are suing Pitts Farms for replacing them with foreign workers here in the US on H-2A work visas.

Now wait just a damned minute......don't they want to get away from toiling in the fields? My wife was born in Alabama during the Great Depression. Her family worked in the fields from Sun up to Sun down every day...unless it started raining....then they couldn't work. That was the only time they were allowed to go to school. She got married when she was in her early teens to get away from that kind of life.

Now it appears that some blacks are upset that all of these foreigners are coming into the United States and taking their jobs.

View attachment 563392

"In interviews with the New York Times, black Americans said they had spent most of their lives earning a living as farm workers at Pitts Farms. The work is part of a long history wherein black Americans along the Mississippi Delta have spent grueling hours on farms doing intense physical labor.​

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​

One of the black Americans suing Pitts Farms, 50-year-old Richard Strong, told the Times that he has worked on farms for more than 25 years. His father and grandfather did so as well, as well as his enslaved ancestors.​

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​

Strong said about 10 years ago is when he noticed farms along the Mississippi Delta began importing foreign visa workers, almost entirely from South Africa. When the first groups arrived, Strong said he helped train them. Now, more than 100 U.S. farms along the Delta employ foreign visa workers from South Africa over Americans.​

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An expert on the H-2A visa program told the Times that “virtually all new workers entering the agriculture workforce these days are H-2A workers.” A recruiter for the H-2A visa program called the imported South Africans are “the preferred group” over Americans."​

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For many years, [Pitts Farms] employed a majority Black workforce. As of 2014, however, this number has steadily dwindled, as [Pitts Farms] began applying for and hiring white South Africans for the same work. And since 2014, PFP has used the H-2A program to hire only white South Africans – no black South Africans – although that country too is majority black by a wide margin: estimates stand at around 80% Black compared to less than 8% white. [Emphasis added]​

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"By 2020, Strong said he was fired by Pitt Farms, as were the other American workers, including his brother Gregory, who had also spent most of his life working at the farm.​

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“I never did imagine that it would come to the point where they would be hiring foreigners, instead of people like me,” Strong told the Times. “… It’s like being robbed of your heritage.”​

​

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“I gave them half my life and ended up with nothing,” Gregory said.​

​

​

The lawsuit states that while Strong and his American counterparts were paid the minimum wage of $7.25 an hour and $8.25 an hour on weekends, the foreign visa workers were given nearly $12 an hour.​

​

​

As the lawsuit gains traction, President Joe Biden’s administration has expanded the H-2A visa program. This week, for example, Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that U.S. farms will be allowed to import foreign visa workers from six additional countries, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mauritius, and Saint Lucia.​

​

​

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas justified the expansion as a way for U.S. farms to import more foreign visa workers when Americans “are not available” to do the work.​

​

​

The H-2A visa program, much like the H-2B visa program for non-agricultural work, has been proven to undercut working class Americans who rely on manual labor jobs but who are forced to compete against a growing number of cheaper, foreign workers."​

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Black Americans Sue U.S. Farms for Replacing Them with Foreigners

Farmworkers are suing their former employer after they were replaced by imported, foreign workers on the H-2A visa program.

www.breitbart.com

I’m with the black farm workers on this one

 

[MizMolly]

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Just updated my kitchen and one of my bath rooms. The outfits I contracted sent Mexicans to do the jobs.
They are taking jobs away from Americans...

Southeast sees big influx of illegal immigrants

The number of illegal immigrants living in Georgia more than doubled in less than a decade, according to a new federal report. The main reason cited: jobs.

www.nbcnews.com

I have seen Mexican construction work, very nicely done. Every time I have seen new construction with Mexican workers I am amazed at how skilled they are.