ICE arrests South Texas bakery owners accused of hiring undocumented workers

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28. There have been periodic crackdowns,

but the owners of meat packers are obviously too wealthy and have too many layers between themselves and thode doing the hiring to ever be touched. After high school I worked for a year and a half at the local factory slaughterhouse to get money for college. The workforce was almost entirely Viet Namese and Laotian refugees and recent immigrants from México. People from the US, of any race/ethnicity, rarely lasted a week, many quit before lunch the first day. The local economy was bad and not being able to hack the slaughterhouse meant accepting poverty or moving at least 300 miles away. And probably 90% of US citizens were gone within a month. Today's TikTok kids wouldn't last an hour. And for people over 40, not one in a thousand would last a month, even knowing that the alternative was homelessness.



https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/cactus-texas-immigration-raid-slaughterhouse-2006-panhandle/