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Advocates in Georgia want Gov. Brian Kemp to delay the opening of a poultry plant where six people died last month due to a chemical leak.
A coalition has written a letter addressed to the governor calling for an inspection to make sure the plant is safe before workers go back.
Shelly Anand heads the workers’ rights group Sur Legal Collaborative, one of the organizations in the coalition. She says being a pro-business state also means protecting workers.
“And having to hold employers accountable when workers are killed. When workers die,” says Anand. “He [Kemp] needs to be asking the same questions of these poultry facilities, of Foundation Food Group: ‘What are you doing to make sure it’s safe for workers to return?’”
US Lawyers Write to President Biden on Farmers Protests, Modi Govt s Repressive Tactics Your administration comes to office at a time when minority communities across India are in peril, notes the letter, urging the US President to act.
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New Delhi: More than 40 lawyers of south Asian descent have written an open letter to US President Joseph Biden, asking him to take note of the farmers’ protests and the methods of repressing it taken up by the Centre.
2021/02/02 07:08 ATLANTA (AP) Immigrant advocates say they fear workers at a Georgia poultry plant where a liquid nitrogen leak killed six people may not come forward to federal investigators for fear of arrest and deportation. Speaking at a news conference, lawyer Shelly Anand called Monday on the U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Department of Homeland Security to work together to guarantee any of the workers in the country illegally be shielded from deportation. Anand, executive director of the Atlanta-based immigrant rights nonprofit Sur Legal Collaborative, called on both federal departments “to find a way to protect these workers by granting them deferred action or continued presence.”
It’s not clear if any such protection will be forthcoming, though. The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Labor did not immediately answer questions Monday about whether workers who are talking to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, part of the Department of Labor, would be safe from deportation.
Of the six workers who died Thursday after the nitrogen leak at the Foundation Food Group plant northeast of Atlanta, five were Mexican citizens. It’s unclear if any of them were in the country illegally. But that and other plants in Gainesville, the hub of Georgia’s mammoth poultry industry, rely on a heavily Latino workforce - often a mix of people with and without legal status.