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🗓️ 26 June 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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0:00.0 | President Trump took office promising to carry out the largest mass deportation in U.S. history, |
0:11.4 | and his administration has been trying to carry out that pledge, |
0:14.9 | partly through workplace raids in industries that rely heavily on immigrant labor. |
0:19.6 | One of those industries is meatpacking. |
0:22.5 | Gary Rower knows the business well. |
0:25.0 | Hi, Gary. |
0:25.8 | Hi. |
0:26.7 | You can hear me okay? |
0:28.1 | Yes, I can hear you just fine, ma'am. |
0:32.4 | Gary's been in the meat industry since the 1980s. |
0:35.4 | He's the CEO of a Nebraska-based company called Glen Valley Foods. |
0:39.5 | Its signature product bears his name. |
0:41.9 | Gary's Quicksteaks. |
0:43.5 | There are small pieces of thinly sliced steak, about the size of a nickel, |
0:46.9 | that have been frozen together. |
0:48.7 | And then when you lay it on the grill, |
0:50.6 | it releases in 60 seconds into a pile of thinly sliced steak for burritos, |
0:57.3 | tacos, salads, steak and eggs, filly cheese steak sandwiches. |
1:06.0 | Gary's quick steaks are produced in his meat processing plant in Omaha, before being shipped |
1:10.6 | out and sold across the country. |
1:12.7 | More than 100 employees work in the production line at his plant, |
1:15.8 | slicing, pressing, and freezing meat. |
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