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Thousands of meatpacking workers could lose their jobs due to the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrant work visa programs.

The Meat Institute, asked if lost labor was impacting production, said "that portion of the workforce has been phased out of the system."

Iowa union leaders said some of the immigrants losing their jobs had been designated essential workers during Trump’s first term.

Meatpacking giant JBS' July firing of 200 workers in Ottumwa because the Trump administration was revoking their work visas could be just the start of a wave of job losses, with thousands more workers across the state and nation also caught in the crackdown on immigrants, experts say.

Dramatic roundups of undocumented immigrants at meat plants, like one that U.S. Immigrati

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