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Meatpacking giant JBS' July firing of 200 workers in Ottumwa because the Trump administration was revoking their work visas could be just the start of a wave of job losses. Dramatic roundups of undocumented immigrants at meat plants, like the one that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement staged in Omaha in June, have been isolated so far. But the Meat Institute, the industry’s lobbying group, estimates that 20% of the nation’s meat processing workforce — about 102,000 of 510,000 workers — have lost or will lose their jobs as President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security moves to shut down programs like the humanitarian parole under which the Ottumwa workers were employed. Tap the link in our bio for more on this story. #Iowa #IApolitics #immigration #Trump #ICE

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