US meatpacking workers face new hazard: threat of deportation by Ice
by Mike Elk in Pittsburgh from on (#3T408)
In industry where one-third of workers are immigrants, Ice's largest raid at an Ohio plant strikes fear in local communities
Meatpacking has never been the safest, or the most pleasant, job. Now, under the Trump administration, workers are facing another hazard - the threat of deportation.
"We were working in the plant and the agents showed up with machine guns and started taking everyone outside," 20-year-old "Carlos", a meatpacker at the Fresh Mark meatpacking plant in Salem, Ohio, told the Guardian.