Fremont, Nebraska, has three massive meat-processing plants that need workers. It also requires anyone renting a home to sign a declaration that they’re in the U.S. legally.
Big-city mayors may be complaining about the economic impact of an influx of migrants, but the residents of a small city near Omaha can’t decide how they feel.
Fremont, Nebraska, population 27,000, has three massive meat-processing plants. As young locals leave in search of better jobs, Central American migrants have been taking their places in the slaughterhouses, especially after Costco opened a huge rotisserie chicken facility in 2019.
“We need these people,” said Mark Jensen, president of the city council. “We need this work done. This is what feeds the nation and the world.”
But instead of a welcome mat, for more than a decade Fremont has had a controversial law on the books that tries to bar undocumented migrants from living within city limits. In 2010, residents voted 57% to 43% to require that all people renting property in Fremont must first sign a declaration that they are legally present in the U.S.
They want migrants to come work the hardest, shittiest jobs but they want them to all live in the crappy housing outside the city limits because the townsfolk don’t actually consider immigrants to be human beings. That was the gist of the article as I read it anyway…
Sounds like MAGAts.
funny how one of the easiest methods of finding illegal immigrants is to investigate business owners… but how often do they ever go to jail for hiring illegal workers?
this story right here… they admit to requiring, and hiring an illegal work force but no job creator is going to jail for that illegal act…
no, its the workers they need that should be punished?!
Similar to punishing the prostitutes instead of the people who pay for their services. Easier to pick on the less fortunate.
This is the same Nebraska that depended on pork and soy exports to Gyna that “Stable Genius” destroyed to play his easy-to-win trade wars. Not sure what he got in return but Nebraska farmers lost bigly. Still they voted for repubes.
Absolutely no sympathy when these asshats inevitably go out of business.
Fuckem.
Though when they fail, the price of groceries will go up, primarily affecting those who can least afford it. It is all a tangled, interconnected web:-(.
I want these people to be free to live however they wish. But I do NOT agree that their votes should be worth several magnitudes more than mine:-(.
