When Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conducted a worksite raid at Green Valley Foods in Omaha, Nebraska, on Tuesday, many predicted the company's demise. Even though the company used E-Verify in hiring, at least 74 of the plant's 140 employees were determined to be illegals. According to the company president, many of the workers had been employed for 15 years, and they worked in all aspects of the company's operations.

This is Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass saying on Sunday that her city requires illegals to run.

"I don't think the President understands that we have entire sectors of our economy that can not function without immigrant labor."

The logic that ultimately drove our immigration policy to become effectively one of open borders under Joe Biden was built on the idea that Americans would not work in construction, manufacturing, food processing, or even the hospitality sector because... well, no one ever told us why Americans wouldn't do those jobs.

Omaha provided a laboratory to evaluate that claim. If Green Valley Foods required illegals to operate, then it was doomed. But something extraordinary happened:

Every seat in the waiting area of Glenn Valley Foods was occupied with people filling out job applications early Thursday afternoon, two days after the meatpacking plant became the center of the largest worksite immigration raid in the state of Nebraska so far this year.

Dozens of prospective employees, many of them Spanish speakers, had been coming in and out of the plant all day. Some were hoping to land a new job; others were coming in for training.

Throughout history, labor shortages have not resulted in better wages, working conditions, or employee bargaining power. Labor shortages produced chattel slavery, indentured servitude, sharecropping, serfdom, and peonage. Hiring illegals creates a workforce that can't complain, organize, or demand better pay and working conditions; the same characteristics also explain the in-your-face abuses of the H1B program. The issues with E-Verify aside, I would submit that employment practices that resulted in 50% of the workforce being illegals required some degree of willful blindness. As an aside, if you think the reason that all kinds of people were befouling their drawers over Elon Musk's DOGE team getting access to the Social Security master file was because they were concerned about the sanctity of our personal information, you are profoundly stupid.

Americans will take most jobs now filled by illegals if they are only allowed to compete for them. They will only be allowed to compete for those jobs when our government takes the issue of illegal immigration seriously, as it is doing under President Trump.

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