内容摘要：The meeting of Labor lawmakers on Friday endorsed the 30 appointments to the Cabinet and junior ministries.

The meeting of Labor lawmakers on Friday endorsed the 30 appointments to the Cabinet and junior ministries.

A wooden mosque with a gold-domed top is set amid streets of battered mobile homes and churches for Roman Catholics, Baptists and Nazarenes. There’s a Somali restaurant, a shop for Central American groceries, and a Thai takeout place.At Golden Lotus Market, you can pick up Vietnamese instant coffee and a cereal drink from Myanmar. A flyer taped to the store’s entrance and written in English, Spanish and Burmese announces a new youth sports league: “Do you like to play baseball?”

“You meet all walks of life here,” said Ricardo Gutierrez, who was raised in Cactus. “I have Burmese friends, Cubans, Colombians, everyone.”Sometimes, when the wind is blowing, the acrid smell of the slaughterhouse signals the town’s biggest employer. The meatpacking facility with more than 3,700 workers is owned by JBS, the world’s largest beef producer.The loss of immigrant labor would be a blow to the industry.

“We’re going to be back in this situation of constant turnover,” said Mark Lauritsen, who runs the meatpacking division for the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which represents thousands of Panhandle workers. “That’s assuming you have labor to replace the labor we’re losing.”Nearly half of workers in the meatpacking industry are thought to be foreign-born. Immigrants have long found work in slaughterhouses, back to at least the late 1800s when multitudes of Europeans — Lithuanians, Sicilians, Russian Jews and others — filled Chicago’s Packingtown neighborhood.

The Panhandle plants were originally dominated by Mexicans and Central Americans. They gave way to waves of people fleeing poverty and violence around the world, from

Nicole, a Haitian immigrant who works for a meat processing plant, looks for wild flowers outside her apartment, April 13, 2025, in Dumas, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)His death was confirmed by his son, David Gans, who said he died at his Manhattan home after a lengthy illness.

Author of such influential works as “The Urban Villagers” and “The Levittowners,” Herbert Gans was a refugee fromwho liked to say he viewed his adopted country through the eyes of an outsider. He called himself a “participant-observer,” combining research and direct experience and lending crucial perspective on municipal planning, attitudes toward race and poverty, mass communication and cultural tastes.

A professor emeritus at Columbia University and former president of thehe believed in making scholarly work accessible, and was a popular commentator and prolific essay writer. He served on the committee that prepared the