Tyson Foods closes Iowa plant but looks to hire 42,000 immigrant workers

Tyson Foods says it would like to hire 42,000 immigrants to fill positions just days after the company announced it would close a plant in Iowa that employed about 1,200 people.

Tyson is joining Tent Partnership for Refugees, a nonprofit that works to get refugees hired, and it plans on hiring at least some of the more than 180,000 migrants who have gone through New York City's intake system over the past two years, Bloomberg reported last week.

About 42,000 of Tyson's 120,000 U.S. employees are immigrants, and Garrett Dolan, who is in charge of the company's efforts to overcome barriers to employment, including immigration status, said, "We would like to employ another 42,000 if we could find them."