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Chicago Job Fair Offers 400 Jobs for Migrants as Native Black Population Suffers Rising Unemployment

Migrants had been handled to a job truthful in Chicago the place employers had been seeking to supply about 400 of them jobs. Meanwhile, unemployment for metropolis residents continues to development upward.

The job truthful was held on November 2 on the Chicago space Misericordia Home on town’s north aspect the place practically 500 refugees from Venezuela, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Ukraine confirmed as much as be courted for potential employment.

With interpreters supplied for them, the migrants met with representatives in fields together with well being care, manufacturing, hospitality, logistics, and others.

The firms additionally provided assist securing authorities companies, authorized papers, and even coaching and academic alternatives.

One of the organizers of the job truthful was a migrant from Afghanistan.

Siam Pasarly, the co-founder of Kaar Poh Staffing Agency, told Chicago’s WGN-TV that he hopes to assist immigrants keep away from the struggles he went by way of when he first got here to Chicago.

“It is very difficult, it is very tough. Until you experience it, you just don’t know,” he exclaimed.

Black Americans have the HIGHEST unemployment charge within the nation and but these firms have 400 positions out there for ILLEGAL ALIENS (I’m not sugar coating a nothing)…

87% of Biden’s votes got here from Black Americans and plenty of at the moment are saying they’ll be voting for him once more…… pic.twitter.com/XRoryva2eS

— I AM (@ibullydabully) November 10, 2023

Meanwhile, even as different sectors within the metropolis have recovered, black unemployment within the Windy City remains to be dangerous.

According to Crains Chicago Business, the black unemployment charge is 10.9 % in Illinois, greater than thrice greater than white unemployment at 3.4 %.

In Chicago, it’s worse as the “jobless rate rose from 43.7% to 57.4% between 2019 and 2021 for Black people ages 20 to 24 in Chicago. The unemployment rate increase for Black women aged 20-24 was staggering, rising from 32% in 2019 to 60% in 2021,” the enterprise paper famous in June.

By August, nationwide unemployment was at 3.7 %, however for black Americans in Chicago it was 14.3 %, WTTW-TV reported.

This is without doubt one of the many issues that’s riling town’s black inhabitants towards the quickly growing variety of migrants within the Windy City.

The inflow of unlawful aliens has many activists for Chicago’s black neighborhood fearful and indignant. In September, left-wing Chicago Catholic priest Father Michael Pfleger mentioned that fast-tracking work permits for unlawful immigrants would put jobs for his black flock in danger.

“What are we putting in place to make sure that there are no institutions in this city, this state, and country that will fire Black people because they have to pay them $15 or $16 an hour and then hire a migrant and pay them $5 an hour? What are we putting in place?” he asked.

In one other case, Chicago activist Zoey Lee, who appeared at a Chicago City Council assembly, voiced a rising sentiment amongst black Chicagoans, accusing metropolis leaders of attempting to start out a “race war” between black Americans and Hispanics.

Black Americans in Chicago are DEMANDING that the Democrats ship the Illegal Alien Latinos BACK HOME & if this Illegal Alien Latino Invasion doesn’t cease, the Black Americans in Chicago are promising to flip Chicago RED. #VoteTheDemsOut #MandatoryeVerify #BuildTheWall #EndH1B pic.twitter.com/bxMSl2olz9

— Nas (@nasescobar316) November 3, 2023