Northwest Iowa (RI) — Hundreds of workers at a JBS plant in Ottumwa were given 90 days to find new work authorizations after the Trump administration revoked their legal statuses.
Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice spokesperson Elena Casillas-Hoffman says workers at other plants across the state are facing the same pressures.
Casillas-Hoffman says her organization has also heard of status terminations impacting workers in Marshalltown, Storm Lake and Sioux City.
She says they’re trying to find new ways to legally remain in the country.
The move affects Haitian, Venezuelan, Cuban, and Nicaraguan immigrants who lived and worked in the United States under a special humanitarian parole program. Individuals under humanitarian parole work in a variety of different fields, but Casillas-Hoffman says a large number work in meatpacking.
(By James Kelley, Iowa Public Radio)
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