Trabajo en IBP!
Many companies abused the use of immigrants for their own benefit. A lot of companies, mainly within the food industry such as Smithsville, IBP and Purdue, have really pushed the envelope of use of illegal immigrants to do all the dirty work that other people wouldn't to do for the pay rate. Many companies work together aside ICE or Immigration and Customs Enforcement to set a quota of how many immigrants are allowed to work for the company and then deported according to the law since they are illegal. This proves that money is power and that large corporations are able to have a their way with the government when it comes to having cheap labor to do the work. Since these companies do this, a lot of them don't necessarily care about what may happen to the immigrant workers because there is more than one immigrant that is waiting outside to be employed. Having this upper hand, many of the companies don't necessarily have too much cost behind every person lost to the immigration law, because the task that needs to be completed anyone can do. That is why if anyone were to get hurt on the job, these immigrants working for the company may very well not collect workers compensation because they are illegal. (http://colorlines.com/archives/2009/07/food_inc_shines_a_light_on_immigrant_labor.html)
Another thing that these large companies don't have fear of is being sued by the immigrant workers, this is because since they are illegal they have no rights in the country and therefore cannot do anything to defend themselves from the constant corruption that these companies are involved with. Thus since the companies can't extract anything else out of the worker, they simply let he or she go and may even have them deported or the immigrant family may either move back to their respective country or move to a different state in which they have hopes of finding a new job. In the movie, Food Inc. there is a scene where ICE goes into a trailer park and burst into the homes early in the morning of the illegal employees of IBP; arrest them all, and one by one sit them in the police trucks and send them away.
There are also times when the workers may complain about the immigrants working within the same company. There were instances when black workers didn't want immigrant workers to be in the same place of work as them. This kind of thing is what companies try to avoid is by sending the workers to different areas of work such as setting them apart and sending them to different departments where the conflict will be minimized. There were workers that complained that they didn't want to work with the immigrant workers because it led to wages staying at a plateau rather than receiving an increase in pay. A black worker said, "We don't want to do it for $8. Pay $15 and we'll do it." The immigrant workers wanted to work, and they didn't necessarily care for what wage; many of them may not even care to work for five dollars an hour as long as they worked and received pay.(http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=449_0_2_0)
These major companies play a major part when immigration is brought into the United States. Many of these immigrants just want to work and get ahead of life. Large corporations having money keep immigrants in the company for cheap labor, and care nothing about the immigrant. These kind of people keep the companies afloat and keep the family tables around the country full of food.
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