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6. The plant uses E-Verify a fed. database used to check the immigration status of employees
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 03:57 PM
Jun 11

Last edited Wed Jun 11, 2025, 04:39 PM - Edit history (1)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/federal-immigration-raid-at-omaha-meat-production-plant-sparks-protests/ar-AA1Guibx?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Chad Hartmann, president of the food packaging company, said the front office was stunned by the aggressive nature of federal officials’ raid and confused by why the company was targeted.

“My biggest issue is: why us?” Hartmann said. “We do everything by the book.”

The plant uses E-Verify, the federal database used to check the immigration status of employees. When he said as much to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers who carried out the raid, they told him the E-Verify system “is broken.”

“I mean, what am I supposed to do with that?” Hartmann said. “This is your system, run by the government. And you’re raiding me because your system is broken?”


So the plant/people hiring workers DID check the immigration status. And Trump's gestapo stormed in anyway.

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