National news team was embedded with ICE on Omaha plant raid

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

Kevin Cole Jun 11, 2025 Updated 1 hr ago

While Omaha print and television reporters stood outside the Glenn Valley Foods meatpacking plant on Tuesday as federal agents searched for workers with improper immigration documents, a camera crew from a Chicago-based news service accompanied officials inside.

Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided the food packaging plant and transported a busload of workers from the plant to an unknown destination. The raid was documented by NewsNation, an American cable news network owned by Nexstar Media Group.

NewsNation's coverage boasted of having "an exclusive" on the multiagency operation that it said was comprised of "about 70 officers and agents from ICE, Homeland Security Investigations, IRS Criminal Investigations, the DEA and U.S. Marshals."

Video from the NewsNation purports to show workers attempting to avoid arrest by hiding, including in walk-in freezers with subzero temperatures. The report said medical personnel from the Omaha Fire Department were asked "to respond and check individuals for health and safety concerns."



A NewsNation videographer films U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as they escort individuals to an awaiting bus during a raid at Glenn Valley Foods in Omaha on Tuesday, June 10, 2025.
NIKOS FRAZIER, THE WORLD-HERALD

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[maxsolomon]

1. Describing "NewsNation" as a "National News Team" is ridiculous.

"Right Wing Media" is accurate.

[Prairie Gates]

8. A fascist propaganda outfit was brought on a ride along with a bunch of fascist thugs.

[rurallib]

2. Trump turns on his enablers all the time

let us hope these guys get burned big time.

[maccafan]

3. Unreal

This just gets worse and worse!

[FSogol]

4. On in other completely unrelated news, food prices are rising for some reason.

[progressoid]

5. Isn't odd that nobody in charge of hiring at these places gets in trouble?

Only the workers are at fault.

[suegeo]

6. The plant uses E-Verify a fed. database used to check the immigration status of employees

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/federal-immigration-raid-at-omaha-meat-production-plant-sparks-protests/ar-AA1Guibx?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Chad Hartmann, president of the food packaging company, said the front office was stunned by the aggressive nature of federal officials’ raid and confused by why the company was targeted.

“My biggest issue is: why us?” Hartmann said. “We do everything by the book.”

The plant uses E-Verify, the federal database used to check the immigration status of employees. When he said as much to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers who carried out the raid, they told him the E-Verify system “is broken.”

“I mean, what am I supposed to do with that?” Hartmann said. “This is your system, run by the government. And you’re raiding me because your system is broken?”

So the plant/people hiring workers DID check the immigration status. And Trump's gestapo stormed in anyway.

[groundloop]

7. AND... If e-verify is broken, WHO BROKE IT?

It's more likely that the vast majority of the people detained were in the US legally. Probably some bullshit like ICE secretly revoked their visa.

[ms liberty]

10. I think "it's broken " is OrangeCode for "we don't give a f*ck about that"

[ToxMarz]

14. I don't think it was ever meant to be a solution.

It was a free pass for corporations. They have always enforced employment of undocumented workers with a wink and a nod to the employers. We like cheap(er) food. So they set up a system that allowed them to still have enough workers and be 'in compliance' while looking like they were serious about addressing the problem. .

[Gaytano70]

9. Mayor Ewing should cancel Omaha's contract with ICE...

Like Glendale already did.

[ultralite001]

11. Kind of like Dr Phil in Los Angeles???

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/dr-phil-ice-los-angeles-raids

[NBachers]

12. Yay Nebraskans- Now you can flood Glenn Valley Foods meatpacking plant with applications for the jobs of your dreams!

[Figarosmom]

13. I bet they did everything by tbe book

In front of a camera even if they are there only to show everything is done according to the law.

Remember it's all for show. They only show you what they want you to see.