Meatpackers: Trump Deportations Mean Cheaper Chickens and Higher Wages
Trump’s mass repatriation of illegal migrants could lower the price of chicken dinners and also raise family wages, say industry reports.

Trump’s mass repatriation of illegal migrants could lower the price of chicken dinners and also raise family wages, say industry reports.
Business-backed progressives are slamming Iowa’s Republican politicians for passing a popular law that partly protects Americans from President Joe Biden’s vast migration inflow.
Federal investigators have found many migrant children working in three slaughterhouses — but both the government and the New York Times are hiding President Joe Biden’s role in delivering foreign children to employers nationwide.
Migration curbs set by former President Donald Trump are creating a labor shortage, the establishment-funded Axios.com news site complains.
The FBI has attributed the recent cyberattack on meat supplier JBS to a Russian hacker group called REvil.
Approximately 20 percent of the United States’ beef capacity has been “wiped out” following a cyberattack on JBS SA, the largest meat producer in the world, according to a Tuesday report.
A major cyberattack has reportedly crippled the world’s largest meat processing company, JBS. The company reports an “organized cybersecurity attack” has severely hampered its operations in the U.S. and Australia.
Democrats are offering a massive flood of cheap, indentured replacement labor to agriculture companies in exchange for their support of an amnesty that would create millions of new Democrat-voting citizens.
President Donald Trump’s low-immigration strategy has pushed the nation’s low-wage meatpacking companies into a high-tech future, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal.
“I think one of the most significant things is that when we put out a cry for help about the meatpacking plants,” she said.
Immigration does not cut Americans’ wages, says a New York Times article written by three reporters.
Tyson Foods is shutting down its giant meatpacking plant in Waterloo, Iowa, spotlighting another economic loss to the Chinese coronavirus epidemic.
Immigrants are “mourning” the loss of low-wage jobs in a Chinese-owned, crowded slaughterhouse run by Smithfield Foods in Sioux Falls, SD, according to an article in the New York Times.
China’s Wuhan virus is spreading rapidly through the nation’s close-packed, labor-intensive, low-wage meatpacking sheds.
Congress should pass an immigration law that delivers a steady flow of foreign visa workers to U.S. employers, Pete Buttigieg says.
The House judiciary committee will debate and vote Wednesday on a bill to award multiple amnesties to the agriculture industry’s large illegal-immigrant workforce.
Justice Department officials are drafting plans to fast-track the asylum claims by the huge wave of migrant youths who claim to be “unaccompanied,” according to Buzzfeed.