When Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conducted a worksite raid at Green Valley Foods in Omaha, Nebraska, on Tuesday, many predicted the company would not survive.
This from redstate.com.
Even though the company used E-Verify to hire their employees, at least 74 of the plant’s 140 employees were determined to be illegals. According to the company president, many of the workers had been employed for 15 years, and they worked in all aspects of the company’s operations.
Going back (at least) to the administration of George W. Bush, We the People have been told our borders cannot be secured, and that insecurity is probably a good thing.
Below is a June 2, 2007, press conference in which George Bush explained that point of view:
Note he said:
You cannot fully enforce the border so long as people are trying to sneak in this country to do jobs Americans are not doing.
The wrongheaded thinking of 18 years ago is at least part of the reason the Trump-Vance team has placed such a high priority on border security.
Below is Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass saying on Sunday that her city requires illegals to function:
LA Mayor Karen Bass: "I don't think the President understands that we have entire sectors of our economy that can not function without immigrant labor." pic.twitter.com/Z4ksFL5Q6y
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) June 15, 2025
I don’t think the President understands that we have entire sectors of our economy that cannot function without immigrant labor.
The logic that ultimately drove our immigration policy to become effectively one of open borders under The Regime was built on the false premise that Americans would not work in construction, manufacturing, food processing, or even the hospitality sector. In actuality, Americans will perform those jobs, but not at indentured servant or slave labor wages. This is the part that Mayor Bass omitted.
And Omaha provided a laboratory to evaluate that premise. If Green Valley Foods required illegals to operate, then it was doomed. But something extraordinary happened:
Every seat in the waiting area of Glenn Valley Foods was occupied with people filling out job applications early Thursday afternoon, two days after the meatpacking plant became the center of the largest worksite immigration raid in the state of Nebraska so far this year.
Dozens of prospective employees, many of them Spanish speakers, had been coming in and out of the plant all day. Some were hoping to land a new job; others were coming in for training.
Throughout history, labor shortages have not resulted in higher wages, better working conditions, or employee bargaining power. Labor shortages have produced chattel slavery, indentured servitude, sharecropping, serfdom, and peonage. Hiring illegals creates a workforce that cannot complain, organize, or demand better pay and working conditions; the same characteristics also explain the in-your-face abuses of the H1B program.
The issue with E-Verify aside, employment practices which resulted in 50% of the workforce being illegals required some degree of willful blindness. And those who believe the Left feared Elon Musk’s DOGE team obtaining access to the Social Security master file was because they were concerned about the sanctity of our personal information are profoundly stupid.
Americans will take most jobs now filled by illegals if they are only allowed to compete for them. They will only be allowed to compete for those jobs when our government takes the issue of illegal immigration seriously, as it is doing under President Trump.
