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Q: A meat packing plant in Nebraska was raided by ICE and lost 76 employees, all illegal aliens. Two days later, their waiting room was packed with Americans, filling out job applications. What happened to, "Americans won't do the jobs illegal aliens do?"
A: Pretty much all lies.
The Omaha meat packing plant complied 100 percent with E-verify to make sure their employees were here legally.
Then White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller revoked the work permits of 200,000 migrant workers, instantly making them “illegal aliens”
Then sent ICE to the plant to round them up.
Gary Rohwer, the owner of the plant called his representative to complain. Don Bacon, the U.S. representative laid the blame on Miller, and even said “ICE is a victim in this too.”
Two days later, the plant was getting a lot of applications. FROM IMMIGRANTS.
**UPDATE June 20, 2025**
“The Omaha meat-packing plant raided by ICE On June 10, 2025 ceased operations and closed their doors due to not having enough workers to keep the plant in operation.
Glen Valley Foods employed over 200 people, who now have no jobs.
Restaurants and retail grocery stores in the area lost their primary source for fresh beef, and will have to get it from other processors, resulting in higher prices. (Some residents protested the ICE raid and its effect on local industry.)
Immigration authorities raided the Omaha meat production plant Tuesday morning and took dozens of workers away in buses, leaving company officials bewildered because they said they had followed the law.
The raid happened around 9 a.m. at Glenn Valley Foods in south Omaha, an area where nearly a quarter of residents were foreign born according to the 2020 census.
A small group of people came out to protest the raid, and some of them even jumped on the front bumper of a vehicle to try to stop officers in one location while others threw rocks at officials’ vehicles as a white bus carrying workers pulled away from a plant.
Chad Hartmann, president of the food packaging company, said the front office was stunned by the aggressive nature of federal officials’ raid and confused by why the company was targeted.
“My biggest issue is: Why us?” Hartmann said. “We do everything by the book.”
The plant uses E-Verify, the federal database used to check the immigration status of employees. When he said as much to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers who carried out the raid, they told him the E-Verify system “is broken.”
“I mean, what am I supposed to do with that?” Hartmann said. “This is your system, run by the government. And you’re raiding me because your system is broken?”
Omaha police and the Douglas County sheriff said immigration officials had warned them about their plans, and their departments helped block off traffic around the neighborhood where many food production plants are located while ICE officers worked.
Meatpacking plants rely heavily on immigrant workers who are willing to do the physically demanding work. The industry has not yet been the focus of President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement efforts, but the administration has been intensifying its efforts in recent weeks. Trump called out the National Guard this week to respond to ongoing protests in Los Angeles over his immigration policies.
CEO and owner Gary Rohwer told WOWT in Omaha he wasn’t made aware of the operation ahead of time. He said federal agents entered the plant with a list of 97 people they wanted to screen.
“Of course not. It’s a raid,” said Rohwer, whose company makes the Gary’s QuickSteak brand of ready-to-grill steak.
Estefania Favila, a supervisor at Glenn Valley Foods, said she was in a morning meeting when federal officials began banging on the plant’s doors and yelling, “Homeland Security!”
“They just came in and said that it was a raid and we had to get everybody out of production,” Favila said. Employees were separated by those who had documents showing they were U.S. citizens, those who had valid work documents and those who did not have documents, she said.
About 70 people were taken away in buses with the windows blacked out, Favila said. Among them were two of her cousins who immigrated from Honduras, she said.
ICE officials confirmed in an email the raid at Glenn Valley Foods, saying it was “based on an ongoing criminal investigation into the large-scale employment of aliens without authorization to work in the United States.” They said it was likely the largest ”worksite enforcement operation” in Nebraska since the start of Trump’s second term.
Hartmann, the company president, saidthe ICE raid sought to investigate stolen identities and that “ICE verified that Glen Valley Foods complied with E-Verify 100 percent..."
A: Pretty much all lies.
The Omaha meat packing plant complied 100 percent with E-verify to make sure their employees were here legally.
Then White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller revoked the work permits of 200,000 migrant workers, instantly making them “illegal aliens”
Then sent ICE to the plant to round them up.
Gary Rohwer, the owner of the plant called his representative to complain. Don Bacon, the U.S. representative laid the blame on Miller, and even said “ICE is a victim in this too.”
Two days later, the plant was getting a lot of applications. FROM IMMIGRANTS.
**UPDATE June 20, 2025**
“The Omaha meat-packing plant raided by ICE On June 10, 2025 ceased operations and closed their doors due to not having enough workers to keep the plant in operation.
Glen Valley Foods employed over 200 people, who now have no jobs.
Restaurants and retail grocery stores in the area lost their primary source for fresh beef, and will have to get it from other processors, resulting in higher prices. (Some residents protested the ICE raid and its effect on local industry.)
Immigration authorities raided the Omaha meat production plant Tuesday morning and took dozens of workers away in buses, leaving company officials bewildered because they said they had followed the law.
The raid happened around 9 a.m. at Glenn Valley Foods in south Omaha, an area where nearly a quarter of residents were foreign born according to the 2020 census.
Chad Hartmann, president of the food packaging company, said the front office was stunned by the aggressive nature of federal officials’ raid and confused by why the company was targeted.
“My biggest issue is: Why us?” Hartmann said. “We do everything by the book.”
The plant uses E-Verify, the federal database used to check the immigration status of employees. When he said as much to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers who carried out the raid, they told him the E-Verify system “is broken.”
“I mean, what am I supposed to do with that?” Hartmann said. “This is your system, run by the government. And you’re raiding me because your system is broken?”
Omaha police and the Douglas County sheriff said immigration officials had warned them about their plans, and their departments helped block off traffic around the neighborhood where many food production plants are located while ICE officers worked.
Meatpacking plants rely heavily on immigrant workers who are willing to do the physically demanding work. The industry has not yet been the focus of President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement efforts, but the administration has been intensifying its efforts in recent weeks. Trump called out the National Guard this week to respond to ongoing protests in Los Angeles over his immigration policies.
CEO and owner Gary Rohwer told WOWT in Omaha he wasn’t made aware of the operation ahead of time. He said federal agents entered the plant with a list of 97 people they wanted to screen.
“Of course not. It’s a raid,” said Rohwer, whose company makes the Gary’s QuickSteak brand of ready-to-grill steak.
Estefania Favila, a supervisor at Glenn Valley Foods, said she was in a morning meeting when federal officials began banging on the plant’s doors and yelling, “Homeland Security!”
“They just came in and said that it was a raid and we had to get everybody out of production,” Favila said. Employees were separated by those who had documents showing they were U.S. citizens, those who had valid work documents and those who did not have documents, she said.
About 70 people were taken away in buses with the windows blacked out, Favila said. Among them were two of her cousins who immigrated from Honduras, she said.
ICE officials confirmed in an email the raid at Glenn Valley Foods, saying it was “based on an ongoing criminal investigation into the large-scale employment of aliens without authorization to work in the United States.” They said it was likely the largest ”worksite enforcement operation” in Nebraska since the start of Trump’s second term.
Hartmann, the company president, saidthe ICE raid sought to investigate stolen identities and that “ICE verified that Glen Valley Foods complied with E-Verify 100 percent..."
3 comments:
Este es el problema that companies hire illegal immigrants. The companies are also owned by gringos, but then maybe the regular US citizen doesn't want to work there. What is the solution MAGA Nuts?
Stop with the illegal immigrants BS. They were breaking federal law period. I guess this is too much for democrats to understand or refuse to understand. When illegals do become legal guess what? They will no longer be willing to work for low wages and will be eligible for all benefits. This will eliminate employer extortion. What both political parties can do is work on making the process of becoming legal easier and faster.
So!!!!! You’re deflecting your anger on MAGA (Make America Great Again) you know 🇺🇸.
Now you can start pointing at the glass palace and start trimming fat from the top. Everything has gotten out of hand from property taxes, health/car/home insurance and utilities. NOT SUSTAINABLE…
If you’re dependent on illegals as your work “horse”. I really don’t know what to tell you.. what it’s beginning to look like is the Biden administration opened the floodgates and closed their eyes, lips and ears and started saying it’s inhumane to send these people back. It’s not our problem and it’s creating resentment on the rest of the working class.
Don’t care 🤷
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