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CHICAGO – A Chicago area bakery lost one-third of its workforce during immigration raids in June and July this year that has cost them over $21 million, ARYZTA Bakery's 2017 report shows.
The bakery, which makes hamburger buns for McDonald's and other vending machine companies, says the recovery is taking a long time. They are being forced to increase wages in order to get the staff back up to the 2500 plus level.
“It’s proceeding very, very slowly because it’s like having a brand new factory and a brand new workforce,” Chief Executive Officer Kevin Toland said on the call, according to Bloomberg News. “That’s presenting a lot of challenges, as you can imagine.”
The company says those hired that were rounded up in the immigration raid came through a third party recruiter, and ARYZTA had no way of knowing whether the employment candidates were legally in the country.
The Trump Administration's focus on detention and deportation of those in the U.S. illegally are being blamed for the loss by liberal news source's like Think Progress, which wrote Tuesday:
Earlier this year, the president signed executive orders on immigration to ramp up the detention and deportation of undocumented immigrants. Those orders expanded the type of crimes punishable by deportation and helped to embolden federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to pursue undocumented immigrants without criminal records.
Job after job available at ARYZTA is listed on JobsGalore.com:
They are being forced to increase wages in order to get the staff back up to the 2500 plus level.
Proving that there is no shortage of workers, just a shortage at the rate these companies are willing to pay.
The good news takeaway – the jobs will pay better.
They shouldn’t have hired them in the first place… they should be deported
There’s always the job making taco shells.
LFOD, I heartily agree! Businesses and individuals who hire illegally should be stringently penalized. If people weren’t hired illegally, that would solve a great deal,of the problem. Those who hire illegally are the problem.
So will Rahm Emanuel waste the tax dollars of Chicagoans defending these “dreamers”?
Exactly. It would go a long way toward deterring criminal corporate activity like this if ARYZTA’s Chief Executive Officer Kevin Toland, were perp walked out of his Winnetka mansion, in front of TV cameras, before being transported by ICE to the Federal prison in the South Loop to await his bond hearing.
This is great news. I hope that will cause some companies to fire illegal aliens and hire Americans.
Great news, wew are finally enforcing our immigration laws for the first time in 30 years, since the Simpson Mazzoli Act.
The third party hiring agencies should also be held accountable. They are the real criminals, while the employers act as accessories.