Awww..too bad for you! Another post that you will ignore. Several communities in Iowa have enacted zoning laws to keep OUT meat packing plants who wanted to open. For the simple reason that they always drag illegals, crime, and hideous costs with them. So, yes...they turned down the lure of a couple hundred jobs, and instead concentrated their efforts on helping legitimate businesses.
In addition, we just had a local community pass a law banning chickens in town. Yes...that's right. Our wonderful "aliens" were raising chickens and slaughtering them in the front yard. The neighbors were a little peeved about rivers of blood running down the end of the driveway. Some cities don't go lightly into the third world.
You are on the WRONG side of this issue; both in terms of the popular opinion and basic logic. But it's never stopped you yet!
That's the way a town should handle a nuisance. Attack the specific problem, don't just blame president Bush.
Example: Houston solved its gang problems in the 80s with oincreased law enforcemant. LA, has a severe gang problem which they blame on immigration. Both Houston and LA have similar immigrant concentrations, but LA which is several time larger than Houston only has a third the number of policemen. It's not Bush's fault.
So are the meat packing plants locating outside the city limits, or are those towns drying up like many rural towns. Are their hospitals closing?