Why It’s Immigrants Who Pack Your Meat
The immigration raid last week at seven poultry plants in rural Mississippi was a perfect symbol of the Trump administration’s racism, lies, hypocrisy, and contempt for the poor. The agents carried handguns, wore black body armor, and led 680 immigrant workers—almost all Latino, many of them women—to waiting buses with their hands zip-tied behind their backs. “The timing was unfortunate,” Kevin McAleenan, the acting head of the Department of Homeland Security, later acknowledged.
