Meat Packaging Giant Closes Facility Amid Growing ICE Raid Fears

[UpInArms]

Glenn Valley Foods abruptly switched off the lights at its Omaha, Nebraska, beef plant this week—an operation many supermarkets rely on for their steak and burger supply.

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Well before ICE vehicles rolled up in Omaha, staffing was the sector’s open wound. The industry never regained the 15 percent of workers lost during the pandemic; Tyson Foods alone has closed six plants since 2023.

Immigrants, documented or not, still fill roughly a third of all meat‑packing roles. After the raid, Glenn Valley’s 140‑person payroll could field only 30 percent of the staff needed to keep lines moving—proof that America’s $1.1 trillion food chain grinds to a halt without these workers.

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When 20 percent of plants report chronic understaffing, hygiene protocols slip. The 2024 Boar’s Head listeria outbreak that killed 10 people was traced back to a short‑handed Virginia line.

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The Great Depression’s farm raids drove produce prices up 40 percent; history is repeating itself. Advocates point to the mid‑century Bracero visa program as proof that orderly, legal labor channels can stabilize supply. Without modern equivalents, the cycle of crackdowns, shortages, and inflation is set to recur.

More at:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/meat-packaging-giant-closes-facility-amid-growing-ice-raid-fears/ss-AA1GWI24#image=1

(Difficult website … have to scroll pages to read the full story)

[Norrrm]

1. Hire the republicans who now get their jobs back.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. I spy meat shortages in the near future.

[Attilatheblond]

5. Eventually, GOP actions will go too far and trigger wide spread rioting. Food shortages bound to do the trick

And that is exactly what those behind Project 2025 are waiting/working for.

[BonnieJW]

10. I'm glad I'm vegan

[Attilatheblond]

13. Following problems growers are having with workers not showing up, fearing being sent away without due process?

You better be really rich pretty soon cuz produce is gonna get rare and very expensive too.

[BamaRefugee]

3. Just enforce the laws, and imprison the people who HIRE these workers.

Probably a billion dollars ( rough estimate using the trump number estimating technique) saved compared to these ridiculous RETAIL roundups.

[BamaRefugee]

4. Maga will blame the vegan 4th of July celebrations on Biden of course.

Can't even make hot dogs without the scraps from cutting steaks and pork chops...'MURICA!

[UpInArms]

6. Adding some info on the Great Depression for background

Americans meanwhile feared foreign workers willing to labor for low wages. The Saturday Evening Post warned that foreign immigrants, who were “compelled to accept employment on any terms and conditions offered,” would exacerbate the economic crisis. On September 8, 1930, the Hoover administration issued a press release on the administration of immigration laws “under existing conditions of unemployment.” Hoover instructed consular officers to scrutinize carefully the visa applications of those “likely to become public charges” and suggested that this might include denying visas to most, if not all, alien laborers and artisans. The crisis itself had stifled foreign immigration, but such restrictive and exclusionary actions in the first years of the Depression intensified its effects. The number of European visas issued fell roughly 60 percent while deportations dramatically increased. Between 1930 and 1932, fifty-four thousand people were deported. An additional forty-four thousand deportable aliens left “voluntarily.”[2]

Exclusionary measures hit Mexican immigrants particularly hard. The State Department made a concerted effort to reduce immigration from Mexico as early as 1929, and Hoover’s executive actions arrived the following year. Officials in the Southwest led a coordinated effort to push out Mexican immigrants. In Los Angeles, the Citizens Committee on Coordination of Unemployment Relief began working closely with federal officials in early 1931 to conduct deportation raids, while the Los Angeles County Department of Charities began a simultaneous drive to repatriate Mexicans and Mexican Americans on relief, negotiating a charity rate with the railroads to return Mexicans “voluntarily” to their home country. According to the federal census, from 1930 to 1940 the Mexican-born population living in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas fell from 616,998 to 377,433. The next president, Franklin Roosevelt, did not indulge anti-immigrant sentiment as willingly as Hoover had. Under the New Deal, the Immigration and Naturalization Service halted some of the Hoover administration’s most divisive practices, but with jobs suddenly scarce, hostile attitudes intensified, and official policies became less welcoming. As the cycle turned again, immigration plummeted and deportations rose. Over the course of the Depression, more people left the United States than entered it.

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wm-ushistory2/chapter/the-dust-bowl-and-farming-during-the-depression/

[Deminpenn]

12. Those who do not remember history

are destined to repeat it, is the phrase that comes to mind.

[gfarber]

7. Meat Processing

In Omaha, beef lines went dark,
Glenn Valley shut down its meat park.
With workers too few,
The backlog just grew—
Now prices and tempers both spark.

The lights at the meat plant went black,
As raids drove the workforce off track.
With hands torn away,
The rot finds its way—
And death rides the factory’s back.

[surfered]

8. We'll surprise , surprise. Immigrants harvest our food,

butcher our meat, clean our hotels, work in our restaurants. These are impossible facts to know for Trump’s administration.

[Mysterian]

9. Where are all the Americans whose jobs the immigrants stole?

I'm so confused!!!

[newdeal2]

11. America voted for this thinking they'd get cheaper prices