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How a city in Nebraska is recovering after the state's largest worksite immigration raid
NBC News via Yahoo ^ | 6/16/2025 | Nicole Acevedo

Posted on 06/16/2025 10:29:36 AM PDT by God luvs America

Every seat in the waiting area of Glenn Valley Foods was occupied with people filling out job applications early Thursday afternoon, two days after the meatpacking plant became the center of the largest worksite immigration raid in the state of Nebraska so far this year.

Dozens of prospective employees, many of them Spanish speakers, had been coming in and out of the plant all day. Some were hoping to land a new job; others were coming in for training.

The scene gave the company’s president, Chad Hartmann, a glimmer of hope amid the chaos that ensued after Tuesday's raid purged roughly half of his staff — many of whom had been longtime employees of the company, which has been processing boxed beef for more than 15 years.

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Seventy-six people working at Glenn Valley Foods were arrested by federal immigration authorities Tuesday morning, the Department of Homeland Security told NBC News in an email.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the arrests were part of an enforcement operation to execute a federal search warrant in connection to an investigation into “the large-scale employment of aliens without legal work authorization.”

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; nebraska; ohnoanyway
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In other words, despite all the useless bloviating from NBC Spews, citizens and those in the country legally showed up in large numbers to replace the illegals that had been arrested....
1 posted on 06/16/2025 10:29:36 AM PDT by God luvs America
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To: God luvs America

“Recovering”?? NBC makes it sound like the city went through a natural disaster. They still are just as much of a DNC propaganda organ as they were before the 2024 election, which bodes well for Republican chances in 2028.


2 posted on 06/16/2025 10:31:24 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: God luvs America

The gringos who hired them should be in the slammer too.


3 posted on 06/16/2025 10:31:39 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: God luvs America

Looking forward to the stories about how demonicRATS are coping with having to wipe their own asses.


4 posted on 06/16/2025 10:32:06 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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“The scene gave the company’s president, Chad Hartmann, a glimmer of hope amid the chaos that ensued after Tuesday’s raid purged roughly half of his staff “

Why was Mr Hartmann not arrested for employing so many people illegally? He should have his business confiscated for being a criminal enterprise.


5 posted on 06/16/2025 10:32:42 AM PDT by JSM_Liberty
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To: Wilderness Conservative

Yes they should.


6 posted on 06/16/2025 10:33:12 AM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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In other words, despite all the useless bloviating from NBC Spews, citizens and those in the country legally showed up in large numbers to replace the illegals that had been arrested....

How about that. Americans doing jobs Americans won’t do. Who would have thunk it. ;~)

7 posted on 06/16/2025 10:34:01 AM PDT by Ditto
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Well, lookie there! Apparently there ARE legal people willing to do the jobs “that Americans won’t do”.


8 posted on 06/16/2025 10:34:38 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)
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To: JSM_Liberty

They may have passed through the i9 system. That lets him off the hook.


9 posted on 06/16/2025 10:35:00 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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To: God luvs America

Supposedly Ice was only arresting people there because they had committed other criminal acts other than being in this country. Now it appears that even if you are a criminal then you are under sanctuary if you work at a meat packing plant.


10 posted on 06/16/2025 10:35:10 AM PDT by Revel
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To: God luvs America

Boo. Hoo.


11 posted on 06/16/2025 10:37:05 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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Bingo. Years working there? And, the criminal could not ever fill out the forms to become a citizen? Pi$$ on ‘em, both.


12 posted on 06/16/2025 10:38:05 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: Wilderness Conservative

Now that’s a good idea !


13 posted on 06/16/2025 10:43:35 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: God luvs America

“…a city…” happens to be Omaha as the place where this occurred. Not some small town at the end of a dusty road.


14 posted on 06/16/2025 10:46:23 AM PDT by Skybird
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"The gringos who hired them should be in the slammer too."

That was a provision of Reagan's 'One-Time-Only' Amnesty. It was never enforced and here we are...

15 posted on 06/16/2025 10:46:24 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: God luvs America

I’ll bet crime goes down 25% as well


16 posted on 06/16/2025 10:53:45 AM PDT by albie
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Agree if they knew, but from further down in the article: “...The company’s president said they have continuously used E-Verify as part of their hiring process. The system is operated by the Department of Homeland Security in partnership with the Social Security Administration to let employers know if a prospective employee has legal authorization to work in the U.S.

Every employee at Glenn Valley Foods, including those who were detained by ICE, has been approved through E-Verify...”
Another bureaucratic blundering program.


17 posted on 06/16/2025 10:53:51 AM PDT by GMThrust
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Seventy-six people working at Glenn Valley Foods were arrested by federal immigration authorities Tuesday morning, the Department of Homeland Security told NBC News in an email.

Employer monetary sanctions in 3... 2... 1...

Nah! Just kidding.

18 posted on 06/16/2025 10:54:36 AM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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The company’s president said they have continuously used E-Verify as part of their hiring process.

The company's president said...

Anyone can say anything. What else would the company's president say? "We knowingly hired illegal aliens and paid them under the table."

I wonder if said president offered proof that the illegal aliens had been approved through E-Verify, offered proof of the illegal aliens' ITIN or SSN and that US income taxes had been taken out of the illegal aliens' wages.

19 posted on 06/16/2025 10:59:43 AM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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"Every employee at Glenn Valley Foods, including those who were detained by ICE, has been approved through E-Verify, Hartmann said. When he told this to DHS during the raid, an agency official described the system they operate as flawed and easy to cheat."

Trump needs to look into the E-Verify system and determine if it's been corrupted and compromised.

20 posted on 06/16/2025 10:59:47 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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