Here’s a CRY ME A RIVER OF TEARS article that is so biased it’s dripping with hogs blood!

TAR HEEL, N.C. — Last November, immigration officials began a crackdown at Smithfield Foods’s giant slaughterhouse here, eventually arresting 21 illegal immigrants at the plant and rousting others from their trailers in the middle of the night.

Since then, more than 1,100 Hispanic workers have left the 5,200-employee hog-butchering plant, the world’s largest, leaving it struggling to find, train and keep replacements.

GOOD. The more illegal Hispanic workers that leave, the better for all.

So far, Smithfield has largely replaced the Hispanics with American workers, who often leave poorly paid jobs for higher wages at the plant here. But the turnover rate for new workers — many find the work grueling and the smell awful — is twice what it was when Hispanics dominated the work force.

Making Smithfield’s recruiting challenge even harder is the fact that many local residents have worked there before and soured on the experience. As a result, Smithfield often looks far afield for new employees.

Americans have standards. We won’t work for sweatshops- where the work is brutal, but can be less so with better work processes and improvements in the environment. Illegal workers will work under ANY circumstance, simply because they are on the string of employers who threaten them, half ass abuse them and take advantage of them.

Fannie Worley, a longtime resident of Dillon, S.C., a largely African-American town of sagging trailers and ramshackle bungalows, quit her $5.25-an-hour, part-time job making beds at a Days Inn motel four months ago to take a $10.75-an-hour job at Smithfield. But Ms. Worley remains ambivalent.

“It pays a lot better,” she said. “But the trip is too long.”

Around 1 p.m. each day, C. J. Bailey, a Smithfield worker, picks up Ms. Worley and 10 other employees in his big white van. They arrive at the plant around 2:15, and he drops them back home after 1 a.m.

Several of the newly hired workers in the van — they pay $40 a week for the ride — said they were thinking of quitting, unhappy about having to commute so far and work so hard. At the plant, where the pay averages around $12 an hour, many spend hour after hour slitting hogs’ throats, hacking at shoulders and carving ribs and loins. At the end of their shifts, many workers complain that their muscles are sore and their minds are numb.

Well, the same can be said for many types of work Americans do. Some say this about nursing. Others say it about truck driving or factory work…what’s the solution? Get a PhD in rocket science first. THEN: PAY THEM BETTER. Offer them closer housing. Do whatever it takes to attract them. It will all pay off in the end. Having a loyal workforce who consist of American workers should be the goal here. The work sucks, yes. But it can be improved. How about adding some ventilation systems? And better work process tools? Innovate. (Yes I have been in slaughterhouses and know how it all works.)

The way Hector David, a longtime worker from Mexico who quit in February, sees it, Smithfield had been eager to hire Hispanics because they worked so hard. “The Americans just don’t work as well,” Mr. David said. “In Mexico, we work from the age of 5 in the corn fields. We’re used to working hard.”

WHAT??? Sure, SOME Americans are lazy and expect every job to be kind and gentle and easy…but this is one of the most ridiculous comments I have ever read! Now we have Mexicans telling us we won’t do the jobs they will. Why do we allow this to happen?