内容摘要：“responsible” spending — aligning with the government’s broader efficiency and cost-cutting measures, such as those recommended by the Department of Government Efficiency, which has significantly impacted federal research, workers and agencies.

“responsible” spending — aligning with the government’s broader efficiency and cost-cutting measures, such as those recommended by the Department of Government Efficiency, which has significantly impacted federal research, workers and agencies.

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, fromNicole, 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)

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)Nicole, a Haitian immigrant who works for a meat processing plant, holds wild flowers she picked near her apartment, April 13, 2025, in Dumas, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Nicole, a Haitian immigrant who works for a meat processing plant, holds wild flowers she picked near her apartment, April 13, 2025, in Dumas, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

A sign for Trails End Road, home to the JBS meat processing plant, rests on a stop sign, April 15, 2025, in Dumas, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)A man pulls his cart full of discarded cartons past Yeni mosque on a rainy day in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Through all this, the largely unseen trash scavengers continue to haul their bulging sacks.“We are the real owners of Istanbul; these streets are ours,” says Ergin Dogan. “If there is a fire, we are the first to run to help. We love this city, but it doesn’t love us back.”

Veysel Dogan, right, and his two sons Ergin, left, and Murtaza load a lorry with discarded cartons at Eminonu commercial area in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)Veysel Dogan, right, and his two sons Ergin, left, and Murtaza load a lorry with discarded cartons at Eminonu commercial area in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)