Looks like meat packing plants are starting to be raided. I expect food prices to rise.
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The #43 regime arranged some enforcement theater at meat packing plants too. Again, the people being grabbed are working, and paying taxes, not the parasites that the US regime claims they are.
Steve
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I would do a lot of jobs but one job I would never want to do is working in a meat packing plant.
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If you see anything where they prosecute the people or corporation that hired them, please post it. They always seem to omit that step. And Iâm not satisfied if wealthy scofflaws are fined, money instead jail is too easy of a bailout. But I wonât hold my breath, lol.
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Taco said that he was no longer going to target farm workers, hotel workers and other leisure workers. It is good to see the farm workers will not be targetted but I suspect he had to do that or he couldnât save his hotel workers and golf course workers.
Itâs Taco time again.
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The immigrants appear to provide necessary services in agriculture, hotels, meat packing, construction, etc.
Why donât we revise immigration laws to allow temporary work permits for these needed workers? Itâs surprising this is not discussed.
The problem again is 60 votes in the senate where open borders seems more popular than work permits!!
That is what the Biden immigration bill did. It created visas for people that were needed for work. After Trump told them to vote against it ALL Republican senators voted no. Imagine that, not one voted yes.
** Would provide a minor increase in green cards.** The proposal also provides an additional 50,000 immigrant visas per year for five years, with 32,000 for family-based petitions and 18,000 for employment-based petitions. This would be the first increase in immigrant visas since 1990. However, given that there were over 7.6 million people waiting in visa backlogs as of November 2023, an increase of 250,000 visas over five years would be a drop in the bucket.**
The reason we canât get anything done is because it makes for a great foil. People should be mad about all this turmoil that is being caused. They had a reasonable fix in their grasp but one side keeps it from happening.
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https://cis.org/Oped/Biden-breaks-law-give-millions-migrants-work-permits
The Biden administration is doing an end-run around the nationâs immigration laws â by giving migrants work permits in record numbers.
This isnât the correct way to do it but it shows they knew they needed to provide the work permits for the health of the American economy. But when one party doesnât want a solutionâŚ
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Or, when one party is running a blatantly racist campaign?
Steve
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The immigrants we are discussing are often poor. How do you avoid charges of racism in that situation?
Trump is already offering to sell green cards for $1MM each. Is that racist?
You wonder if those with deep pockets can avoid being deported. Do they need to come in as illegals or can they find ways to get here legally?
Actually, they cost $5M
Steve
Last week Glenn Valley Foods was the site of an illegal immigration raid. Was the company doomed because it required illegals to work? Well, something âextraordinaryâ happenedâŚ
Every seat in the waiting area of Glenn Valley Foods was occupied with people filling out job applications early Thursday afternoon, two days after the meatpacking plant became the center of the largest worksite immigration raid in the state of Nebraska so far this year.
Dozens of prospective employees, many of them Spanish speakers, had been coming in and out of the plant all day. Some were hoping to land a new job; others were coming in for training.
There have also been questions about E-Verify.
The companyâs president said they have continuously used E-Verify as part of their hiring process. The system is operated by the Department of Homeland Security in partnership with the Social Security Administration to let employers know if a prospective employee has legal authorization to work in the U.S.
Every employee at Glenn Valley Foods, including those who were detained by ICE, has been approved through E-Verify, Hartmann said. When he told this to DHS during the raid, an agency official described the system they operate as flawed and easy to cheat.
DB2
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The next paragraph in the article quoted:
"The scene gave the companyâs president, Chad Hartmann, a glimmer of hope amid the chaos that ensued after Tuesdayâs raid purged roughly half of his staff â many of whom had been longtime employees of the company, which has been processing boxed beef for more than 15 years."
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The past 2 weeks at the Kroger where I shop, the veggies have either not looked as fresh or the store has not had what I was looking for. This is the first time since 2020 that this has happened. Thatâs my anecdata on the grocery shopping.
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Of course didnt you hear? Trump flip flopped and told ICE not to go after Meat Packing Plants. I know its hard to keep up but we did discuss that.
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Another sample size of 1.
Iâm not 100% clear on your point (but I have an inkling), but regardless, how should we extrapolate this single example across the broader population of employers of undocumented workers?
Apparently certain industries and the executive already pivoted.
This pivot is a slightly larger sample size than 1 meatpacker.
(Although I concede this pivot may have changed or change soon, as ânegotiationsâ and âstrategyâ evolve.)
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Yes, that was in todayâs news. The job applicants were filling Glenn Valley Foods last week.
DB2
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At least this announcement is more transparent.
Old way:
âWhisper, wink-wink, we will implicitly ignore all employment of undocumented.â
New way:
Announce in all caps to public:
âWe will purposely ignore employment of undocumented in favored industries a, b, etc.
All clear.
More ribeyes, please.â
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No if you read Wendyâs article you would realize it was the same day that they are saying people came into the Meat Packing Plant for jobs.
The guidance was sent on Thursday in an email by a senior ICE official, Tatum King, to regional leaders of the ICE department that generally carries out criminal investigations, including work site operations, known as Homeland Security Investigations.
âEffective today, please hold on all work site enforcement investigations/operations on agriculture (including aquaculture and meat packing plants), restaurants and operating hotels,â he wrote in the message.
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Itâs been discussed here multiple times, but youâre not picking up whatâs been put down. Companies donât want legal workers. They can exploit undocumented workers without penalty. Congress represents big corporations, not people like you and me. If you dont like this, then vote differently.
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