ICE Took Their Papers—and Won’t Give Them Back – Mother Jones

Immigrants are being released from detention without documents proving their status...

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/ice-detention-keeping-not-returning-immigration-documents-work-permits/ 

 

Hundreds of meatpacking workers with work permits lose their jobs following Trump immigration crackdown

"They're not being treated fairly. They did everything right. They did what they were told do. They followed the procedure," Ulin said. "But because of some political B.S. ... they're caught in the middle." 

He also pointed out that these are the same meatpacking workers the first Trump administration deemed essential workers during the Covid pandemic. 

 "Everybody working on that plant, some of these people were among them, showed up for work willingly and proudly, to put food on the table during a crisis time," Ulin said. "Five short years later, because of some political immigration issue — you're not good enough to work here anymore. I just have an issue with that."…

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/iowa-jbs-plant-lose-work-permits-tps-trump-rcna221672

 

Businesses push Biden to grant work permits to longtime undocumented immigrants | CNN Politics

All of Obert's 15 non-family employees are foreign born and have work permits. But he knows that undocumented workers contribute a lot to the industry, as well as to the communities where they live. He's advocating for allowing these folks to work legally so they can live without a cloud over them and so that dairy farmers can build experienced, stable workforces to care for their herds. .

"You will absolutely cripple the dairy industry in this country if they send these workers back [as Trump threatens to do, if elected]," Obert said...

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/23/politics/undocumented-immigrants-work-permits-jobs/index.html