The new Alabama laws are hurting Alabama businesses and citizens. - - Donna Poisl
by Elizabeth Llorente
They were hard-working, loyal employees.
They toiled for hours on end, on their feet, at the Wayne Farms chicken processing plant in Marshall County in Alabama. Then, just like that, they left – scores of them, accounting for a big chuck of the 120 jobs that suddenly were unfilled.
“We had 850 employees, 120 openings is inordinately high for us,” said Wayne Farms spokesman Frank Singleton. “We play by the rules, we take applications and run them through the [federal immigration] verification program. But if people feel they’re being single out, they’re not going to stick around. They’re going to go elsewhere.”
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