Trump's deportation vow alarms Texas construction industry

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65. The meat packing industry is especially notorious for this. During the COVID pandemic ...

... meat packers were forcing workers to work elbow-to-elbow on production lines with no change in the usual procedures to protect against spreading the disease. The consequences were exactly what you'd expect, many fatalities included.

Tanning and leather processing (likely connected pretty closely to the same slaughterhouses as meat packing) is, IIRC, another industry which is heavily reliant on undocumented immigrant labor. I seem to recall reading something here on DU about a company which had contracts to manufacture leather gear for the US military being found to employ large numbers of undocumented workers. Apparently, these plants are occasionally reported to INS and raided just as a contract lot is completed and ready for shipping ... just before those last paychecks go out. Hmmmmm.