When Wisconsin’s Tyson Foods was struggling to find enough local workers to make its Ball Park brand hotdogs, it found relief some 2,000km away among Florida’s growing population of Haitian migrants.
Tyson employees said the roughly 100 Haitians who arrived in the rural city of New London helped the plant run “more smoothly than it had in years”. That all changed in June when US President Donald Trump ended the programme through which they received work permits.
Similar situations are playing out in food processing facilities around the country amid Trump’s immigration crackdown and the resulting cancellation of programmes allowing people to live and work in the US.