SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – When it comes to waiting all night in the employment line, there’s no jumping ahead.
Sheriff Randall Boyce in Shelbyville, Tenn., said he was called to a job center Monday to end scuffling between immigrants from different countries applying for jobs at a poultry plant.
Boyce said some applicants who had camped overnight were upset when new arrivals seemed to be cutting the line.
He said language differences led to pushing and shoving, but no one was arrested, and all in a crowd of about 150 people got to apply for limited openings at a Tyson Foods plant.
The sheriff said most were applicants from Iraq and Sudan now living in Nashville.
, about 55 miles away, where immigrants from several nations have been resettled.
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