Tuesday, February 10, 2009
By the Way Iraqis From Nashville Cause Ruckus at Shelbyville Employment Office
Posted by Brantley Hargrove on Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:16 AM
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Some 150 Iraqi refugees from Nashville seeking jobs at Shelbyville's Tyson Foods processing plant cut in line, shoved and pushed each other enough that the sheriff was called to the Shelbyville employment office 
At least 28 of the refugees were brought to Shelbyville by World Relief, according to the Shelbyville Times-Gazette, while the rest were transported by several other charitable organizations. They'd been waiting since Sunday afternoon for the employment office to open Monday.
Here's a factoid: The invasion of Iraq spurred the largest exodus since the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. So it should come as no surprise that there are a few of them here in Tennessee, in Shelbyville no less, bent to the fowl work of processing and packaging poultry.
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