Didi Martinez is an associate producer with the NBC News Investigative Unit.
FREMONT, Neb. — Big-city mayors may be complaining about the economic impact of an influx of migrants, but the residents of a small city near Omaha can’t decide how they feel. Fremont, Nebraska, population 27,000, has three massive meat-processing plants. As young locals leave in search of better jobs, Central American migrants have been taking their places in the slaughterhouses, especially after Costco opened a huge rotisserie chicken facility in 2019.
” ‘A burden to the taxpayers’ Driving around Fremont, the Guatemalan presence is tangible, from local shops offering Latino foods to ads for remittance services. Many of the immigrant arrivals live in a mobile home neighborhood less than five minutes from the city’s plants. “Work is a blessing,” said local store owner Gaspar Larios. “Now there are Guatemalans who have houses, their own homes in the United States.
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