{"id":876,"date":"2024-12-13T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farmstand.chee.studio\/how-big-ag-thrives-on-trumps-immigration-threats\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T21:39:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T21:39:21","slug":"how-big-ag-thrives-on-trumps-immigration-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/farmstand.org\/es\/how-big-ag-thrives-on-trumps-immigration-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"How Big Ag Thrives on Trump’s Immigration Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Por Amal Bouhabib<\/strong><\/a>
<\/em>Abogado Senior de la Planta<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking on behalf of the Trump campaign last year, Stephen Miller, the mastermind of family separation and other draconian immigration policies implemented by the first Trump administration, proudly described the incoming president’s “mass deportation\u201d plan as an attack on industries that rely on immigrant labor: \u201c<\/span>Mass deportation will be a labor-market disruption celebrated by American workers, who will now be offered higher wages with better benefits to fill these jobs.<\/span><\/a>\u201d<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller is right about one thing: Trump\u2019s plan to <\/strong><\/span>expel millions of undocumented immigrants<\/span><\/a> <\/strong>y <\/span>revoke the legal status of thousands of others<\/span><\/a> would be <\/span>catastrophic for the American economy<\/span><\/a>. And by any measure, Big Ag should be at the top of the list of industries panicked by it. It is an open secret that our food system\u2013from farms to factories\u2013feeds off the labor of undocumented workers and other vulnerable immigrants. It\u2019s estimated that undocumented workers make up anywhere from <\/span>30-50 percent of the meatpacking workforce<\/span><\/a>. Foreign-born workers make up an even larger proportion of animal agriculture industries like <\/span>dairy<\/span><\/a> <\/strong>y <\/span>pork processing<\/span><\/a>, from 60 <\/span>up to 90<\/span><\/a> percent in some states, many of them undocumented. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deporting these workers would decimate the food industry and Big Ag knows it. So why aren\u2019t they ringing the alarm bell? <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For one, Big Ag\u2019s deep ties to the incoming administration will almost certainly spare it from the brunt of Trump’s policy decisions. We saw this during Trump\u2019s last administration, when a <\/span>tariff-induced trade war with China and other countries caused  agricultural profits to tank dramatically<\/span><\/a>. But while small farms collapsed into bankruptcy, Trump\u2019s administration was swift to bail out Big Ag, including doling out some <\/span>$67 million in \u201ctrade aid\u201d to JBS USA<\/span><\/a>. COVID further exposed Big Ag\u2019s sway: cribbing from a memo drafted by the meat industry itself, <\/span>Trump used the Defense Production Act to keep meatpacking plants open, allowing them to compel their workers to return to work.<\/span>
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowhere is this more evident than in the meatpacking industry. From <\/span>Eastern European immigrants in the 19th century, to women, to Black Americans in the 1960s<\/span><\/a>, the industry moved from one vulnerable group to the next, always finding new ways to turn profits and keep costs down. When Black Americans began to unionize in the 1970s and 1980s, asserting their rights to fair pay and safe work conditions, Southern poultry plants implemented the \u201c<\/span>Hispanic Project<\/span><\/a>,\u201d aimed at recruiting migrant workers from Central and South America regardless of legal status. As journalist Eric Schlosser quipped, the \u201cinvasion,\u201d as the incoming administration calls it, was, in fact, a \u201c<\/span>corporate recruitment drive for poor, vulnerable, undocumented, often desperate workers<\/span><\/a>.\u201d<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it\u2019s not only undocumented labor that fills the coffers of the food industry. In the last decade, Big Ag has turned increasingly to recent refugees and asylees <\/span>who have work authorization but limited options for work<\/span><\/a>. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take Haitians\u2013whom the incoming administration baselessly vilified as <\/span>pet-eating illegal immigrants<\/span><\/a>. As it turns out, they were neither: allegations of eating cats and dogs proved utterly unfounded, and the Haitians accused of it were <\/span>lawfully present in the United States as beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status (TPS)<\/span><\/a>, a DHS-designated status for people from countries suffering from conditions that make it hard for them to return. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of 2024, <\/span>around 500,000 Haitians have TPS<\/span><\/a>, meaning they are authorized to work, and they do – a substantial number of them in the food system. Although Trump\u2019s mass deportation plan includes ending TPS for Haitians and others like them, these refugees are the ones taking the \u201c<\/span>dirty, dangerous, and demeaning jobs that Americans refuse to perform<\/span><\/a>\u201d to put food on our tables \u2013 whether that\u2019s <\/span>enduring slave-like conditions to pick our tomatoes<\/span><\/a>, <\/strong>or <\/span>risking their health and safety to get us our Thanksgiving turkeys<\/span><\/a>. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At FarmSTAND, we have direct experience with this type of exploitation. In October, <\/span>we filed a charge with the EEOC on behalf of a Haitian worker at JBS in Greeley<\/span><\/a>, Colorado \u2013 where an estimated <\/span>80 percent of the plant\u2019s employees are foreign-born<\/span><\/a> alleging that JBS is forcing hundreds of Haitian workers to work at dangerous speeds and limiting their access to the bathroom. Our client says he was forced to work at such extreme speeds that his left hand is now permanently locked in the clawed position he uses to hold his hook for eight hours at a time.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of course, Big Ag justifies their reliance on immigrant labor by citing the lack of a willing American work<\/span> force, and to some extent, it\u2019s true that Americans don\u2019t want these jobs: killing and cutting up animals has always been \u201c<\/span>bloody, hard and dangerous work<\/span><\/a>,\u201d but conditions today are <\/strong><\/span>much worse than even a generation ago<\/span><\/strong><\/a>. Wages at meatpacking plants have <\/span>plummeted a staggering 50 percent since 1975, while injury rates spiked (and then plateaued due to underreporting for fear of reprisal<\/span>)<\/span><\/a> during the same period. At the same time, line speeds have more than <\/span>doubled in the past half century<\/span><\/a>, so that workers “<\/span>can barely move” at the end of their shift, “exhausted from working on a line that turns live animals into processed meat as fast as six times a minute<\/span><\/a>.”<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Big Ag thrives on the exploitation of its workers, working them literally to the bone to squeeze out a profit. FarmSTAND saw this firsthand early in the pandemic, <\/span>when we represented Food & Water Watch in a lawsuit against Smithfield Foods<\/span><\/a>, alleging that Smithfield intentionally flouted worker safety protocols in order to ensure that the production lines kept going\u2013<\/span>at even higher speeds<\/span><\/a>\u2013all the while misrepresenting to consumers that a countrywide meat shortage was imminent. In fact, there was no shortage. And the plants stayed open, forcing workers into close proximity with insufficient protections, led to approximately 3-4% of all early-pandemic deaths in what a union president called \u201c<\/span>one of the biggest failures to the working man or woman that this country\u2019s ever seen<\/span><\/a>.\u201d  <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, as their employees were literally dying to keep the lines moving, <\/span>the meat processing plants tripled their own net profit margins<\/span><\/a> during the pre-vaccine phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/span> <\/span>
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s plan, if implemented, will cause real pain: for the workers <\/span>whose lives are upended<\/span><\/a>, for consumers who will have to <\/span>pay more for their meat and milk<\/span><\/a>, for <\/span>Americans who will lose jobs<\/span><\/a>, and for <\/span>smaller family-owned operations<\/span><\/a> who won\u2019t be able to survive the elimination of their primary workforce.<\/span>  <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the real cost will be borne by the workers, whether they are targeted for deportation or not. A system that survives by exploitation thrives on fear, and workers who are afraid that they may be <\/span>ripped from their homes, their families, and their livelihoods<\/span><\/a> y <\/span>thrown back into a country they fled<\/span><\/a> are more likely to abide the line speed-ups, the lack of safety measures, the harassment, wage theft, and injuries. <\/span>  <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We should all be rooting for Trump\u2019s mass deportation plans to fail. But let us also recognize the system that makes it possible to wreak such terror and cause such disruption, and strive for a fairer, more humane way to feed America. FarmSTAND stands by food system workers in their efforts to exert their rights and reclaim their dignity.<\/span> Explore how FarmSTAND works to protect and expand workers\u2019 rights.<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s estimated that undocumented workers make up anywhere from 30-50 percent of the meatpacking workforce. Foreign-born workers make up an even larger proportion of animal agriculture industries like dairy and pork processing, from 60 up to 90 percent in some states, many of them undocumented.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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