Americans don't need illegals to work the meat packing business
A raid on a meatpacking plant in Nebraska has caused a surge in job applications following the apprehension of 76 employees who were detained and removed from the premises by federal authorities.
After just a few days, a dozen illegal workers had already been removed from the state or deported, while more than 60 were taken to a detention center, NBC News reported.
What happened after the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid, though, defied a sentiment that has permeated across the country: that no American wants the jobs that illegal workers perform.
As Glenn Valley Foods mourned the loss of what the company called "family" members (referring to illegal employees), prospective employees banged on the doors looking to fill the roles that the company itself said were very hard to hire for.
"It takes skilled people that take pride in what they do," company president Chad Hartmann told NBC News.
Still, the company's entire waiting room was packed with people filling out job applications just two days after the ICE raid. Dozens of possible new employees, many of them Spanish-speaking, were coming in and out of the plant, according to the report.
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The illegals may have been cheaper to begin with but with the cost of dealing with the ICE raids, the company would have been better off hiring US citizens to begin with. It seems clear that the citizens are willing to work for them.
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