The Use of Illegal Immigrant Labor in the Poultry (Essay Sample)

The Use of Illegal Immigrant Labor in The Poultry
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The Use of Illegal Immigrant Labor in the Poultry
Introduction
Migrant labors who work in poultry processing plants are the immigrants. The migrant worker also is a term denoting those people who work seasonally during the time of the peak season when there are plenty of jobs. However, immigrant workers are those who had migrated to their place of work and as the result staying in those places on the permanent basis, unlike their migrant counterparts who keep on moving with the change in seasonal job peaks.
The majority of workers in the processing plants are immigrant workers. For instance, they work every year in the poultry processing plants. In consequence, there emerged a shift due to the disappearance of the canning industry where the majority of the migrant workers secured jobs that they could do every year in the poultry processing plants and as the result ending up being transformed into immigrant workers. Due to this reason, a majority of these workers ended up being the valuable part of the poultry industry on the Peninsula through the provision of a labor force that at sometimes back was not easy to find.
The first appearance of migrant workers first took place during the days of truck farming. Every year, they would be moving from the south to the northwards during the times when the season was at its peak with regards to job availability. After reaching their destination, these workers would end up getting absorbed in the institutions where they would get employed for a very short period. At the times of the Second World War, the migrant workers contributed towards the rise in the demand for labor. Consequently, it led to the expansion of the existing facilities so that the excess labor could be accommodated. However, following the adoption of strict health and safety, health regulation that had the objective of enhancing the improvement in the pathetic living conditions of the laborers in the early 1960s, the was a decrement in the migrant camps. In this case, the notable of these newly introduced regulations was the passage of the strict health department codes. On the same note, growers and the operators had to satisfy these conditions of meeting the requirement needed for water supply, sewage disposal, pest management and also fire handling and safety. Added to this, other factors that also contributed towards the abolition of the migrant camps were the harsh weather conditions and also the invention of modern technologies that could large voluminous work compared to the low quantity and also less efficient human labor. Due to this reason, there was the disappearance of the migrant camps as much as some are still present up to date.
Findings
The immigrant populations' work demand has resulted in that type of environment where are there is careful consideration of laws thus leading to a lot of worries among people. For example, there are so problems that have the association with the influx of the immigrant workers such as driving minus license, influence of drugs, housing problems and the decline in the value of property.
Another area to note in the findings from the study is the issue of the identity crisis that is a product of the identification fraud and also products of identities that have emerged currently. The same instance also has an association with the immigrant who are dire need for working in an industry and at the same time the same industry that is also in dire need for workers. For instance, some forge names while others fake their life history reports with the hope of getting the favor of being employed in this industries thus falling into the category of the illegal immigrants in these poultry firms.
The coming of the illegal immigrants indeed has been the cause of the development of the rental market that is more competitive and also much profit generating oriented for people who live in real estate as much as the instance has also come with some problems. For example, in most of the occasions, rented houses are not conducive to living in despite being rented at high costs monthly. Such cases often lead the overcrowding of the majority of these houses. Consequently, the instance leads to the lives of the tenants so pathetic since they have very little time for engaging their recreational activities as they do not enjoy luxurious accommodation.
The influx of the illegal immigrants working poultry firms has been so quite challenging on the incumbent communities' cultures since the residents have both found it so hard to integrate into each other's culture. For instance, there have been a lot of tensions between the natives who are so preservative on their traditions and the illegal immigrants who seem not to get accustomed to the life of the native communities. On the same note, they’re some of the illegal immigrants that are in still confusion with the private homes for private parks and as the result created a lot of fear the resident especially at they enjoy their leisure to the lawns owned by the locals. Not forgetting, private pools have also been confused with public pools where some residents end up coming home meeting the immigrants swimming in their pools thus also creating another fear altogether.
Summary
There is the need to undertake an adjustment by poultry dependent communities where the immigrants need to cope with the surroundings while at the same time the native residents must also be ready to drop their hard stand on their traditions so that they can conform to changes taking place in their communities. In this case, the locals should understand that the immigrant also has crucial roles they play in the poultry industry altogether. At the same time, the immigrants should be ready to accept doing all those activities that do not lead to the devastation of the chicken or poultry industry. On the other hand loss of immigrant labor would imply that communities would also end up losing mo...