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		whimsicalism on July 20, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023 if you don’t think lots of immigrants (and likely illegal immigrants) work as farm hands and at meat processor plants, you have clearly not spent much time in those industries https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2020-05-26/meatpacking-in... https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/28/business/economy/immigrat...

dgfitz on July 20, 2024 [–]

1.2% of the US population works on a farm. I imagine an order of magnitude less work at meat-packing plants.

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