...enable him.
The closure of this plant likely does have a lot to do with tariffs and immigration raids, but it is also due to problems in the cattle and meat packing industry that have been brewing for a long time. The people living and working in this town are probably very familiar with the history behind that.
But here is the thing: it is all to easy to look at things Democrats do to help the little guy and promote better environmental and work practices and say, "Democrats did this to us!"
For example, from the Fiscal Year 2024 Description of Funded Projects:
Recipient: Sonoma County Meat Co., LLC***
City/Town: Santa Rosa, CA
District: CA-05
Project Type: Expansion
Award Amount: $5,000,000
More Local Meat Please: New Processing Capacity to Support Climate-Smart Meat Production
in Northern California
Established in 2014, Sonoma County Meat Co., LLC, is a woman-owned USDA and state inspected meat
processing facility serving beef, pork, lamb, and goat producers. With a focus on supporting local
producers and building a sustainable local food system, they will use USDA funding to quadruple their
value-added production capacity. This expansion will benefit over 100 small, sustainable livestock
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producers in the region. The funds will be used to purchase equipment such as bone broth machinery, a
vacuum stuffer linker, a rollstock machine, and climate smart electric vehicle charging units.
Additionally, the project will create 25 new processing-related jobs.
https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/Combined_LocalMCap_Projects.pdf
Here is a closer look at the plant closure in question:
https://cap.unl.edu/news/understanding-tyson-lexington-plant-closure-what-it-means-cattle-producers/
In addition, it may not be surprising that the population of this town that is dominated by a packing plant has a large non-white population. White people only make up 28.64% of the town.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/nebraska/lexington
You have to wonder how much of an impact on this processing plant immigration raids have had?
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-fugitive-operations-team-arrests-44-absconders-illegal-aliens-nebraska
It will be interesting to see what the impact of closures like this are politically in the long run, but it just feels like another one of those things that right-wing media can pass off as a Democratic conspiracy to take jobs away by attacking big business while ignoring all of the bad things the Administration has done to hasten the destruction of another small town.
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