Factories from GE to Kraft Heinz lose immigrant workers, stressing those who remain

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Source: NPR

August 11, 2025 5:00 AM ET



LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Jaelin Carpenter was stressed. Four people on her team of 26 at GE Appliances had learned that their immigration status had changed.

Under former President Biden, they'd been allowed to stay and work in the U.S. for two years, protected by a program set up to help people fleeing humanitarian crises back home. But the Trump administration abruptly canceled that program, revoking their legal status and their authorization to work. Carpenter fielded call after call from her panicked co-workers.

"They were calling me asking me if they're on the run. 'Does this mean I'm getting deported today?'" she recalls them asking.

As a team leader on a washing machine line and a union shop steward for IUE-CWA Local 83761, Carpenter was used to fielding all kinds of questions at work. But she wasn't prepared for this. Her co-workers were desperate for answers. Carpenter had none. That tore her down, she says.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2025/08/11/nx-s1-5496335/trump-immigration-workers-parole-tps

[Javaman]

1. Oh nose. The oranges asshole will have to

Scramble to find a bottle of ketchup to throw lol

[Marie Marie]

2. Soooo, guess these prices will be jumping up any minute now.

.More importantly, I cannot even imagine the fear and uncertainty that these people must live with every day. I HATE STEPHEN MILLER, TOM HOMAN AND DONALD TRUMP.

[EllieBC]

3. Maybe now is a good time to pay people well well well above minimum wage

Instead of relying on labour used to depress wages.

[cadoman]

4. can't imagine the terror of having a functional team of immigrants and knowing they will be replaced with local MAGAts

What is even the point of showing up to work? The MAGAt is incapable of doing anything productive or maintaining the demeanor necessary to maintain workplace harmony.

[pecosbob]

5. You'll get no tears for mega-corporations here.