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>From NewsMax
Friday April 23, 5:25 AM
Clinton's Balkan Refugee Secret
Vice President Al Gore announced on Wednesday that the U.S. would
welcome up to 20,000 Kosovar refugees to the American mainland,
scuttling an earlier plan for emergency resettlement at Guantanamo
Bay.
The administration claimed that the Guantanamo option was ditched
after the displaced Kosovars rejected the idea of being relocated so
far from their homeland. Yet neither Gore nor anyone else explained
why the equally distant American mainland was geographically more
acceptable.
What the Vice President and the reporters who covered his refugee
announcement failed to mention is this: the 20,000 Albanian Kosovars
would be just the latest Balkan influx to hit American shores since
the U.S. became embroiled in that European conflict. In fact, since
the mid-90's, America has resettled over 80,000 displaced persons from
the region, mainly Bosnian Muslims, primarily to the American
mid-west.
Moreover, America's largest meat processing company, which just
happens to have a curious link to Clinton-friendly Tyson Foods, has
done very well by the deluge of hardworking Balkan refugees willing to
take their dangerous non-union jobs.
A case in point: The small town of Waterloo, Iowa, population 65,000,
has been overwhelmed since 1995 with resettled Bosnians, many of whom
find their first work at the local meat processing plant. Until
recently Bosnian immigrants made up nearly a third of the 2,000 strong
workforce at Iowa Beef Processors, Inc.'s Waterloo plant.
Over the last few years Waterloo has taken in about 6,000 Bosnians,
nearly 10% of the town's entire population. The new immigrants are
recruited by IBP for rough and tumble meat-packing jobs at below union
wages. The influx of Bosnians to Iowa has made the state the only one
in the nation with its own refugee bureau.
In fact, the U.S. meat-packing industry has a history of recruiting
workers on-site in Yugoslavia going back to the 1920's; though, thanks
to America's recent Bosnia entaglement, IBP generally has to look no
further than Chicago for eager refugee labor.
IBP became dominant in it's industry after successfully challenging
major competitors like Hormel and Armour; companies which generally
offered better paying unionized work to American citizens. Before IBP
hit the jackpot with the new Bosnian labor pool, the company actively
recruited Mexican and Vietnamese workers.
And what about IBP's Clinton-Tyson connection? The link is through
Hudson Foods.
In August 1997 Arkansas' Hudson Foods was pretty much run out of
business after the Clinton Dept. of Agriculture determined that e-coli
contamination of its ground beef had sickened 16 people in Colorado.
Though no one died, within days the USDA ordered millions of pounds of
beef recalled. The alarm caused Hudson's major beef buyer Burger King
to cancell it's contract. Meat industry executives were stunned at the
USDA's heavy-handed tactics.
Hudson was primarily a chicken processing operation that had branched
out into beef and pork, with plants outside Arkansas like the one
where the e-coli problem was discovered. And Tyson Foods, notorious as
a longtime Clinton backer with a history of winning favorable
treatment from his state and federal administrations, had long been
interested in acquiring Hudson.
But Hudson was never interested in selling out until the Clinton USDA
struck. Then the Tyson deal became an offer Hudson couldn't refuse.
Still, Tyson didn't want Hudson's beef processing plant, the one where
the USDA first found the e-coli contamination. For that another buyer
had to be located.
That buyer? Iowa Beef Processors, the same company which made out so
handsomely when Bill Clinton's Balkan refugees began streaming into
America.
Small world.
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