Gov. Pillen Backs ICE Crackdown

But His Company Employs Undocumented Workers

 


 

Above: Pillen Family Farms, owned by Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen, has about 100 hog farms across the state, including Inland Foods in Hastings. Pigs on the site, a former munitions depot, are housed in converted bunkers. Photo by Loren Elliott For The New York Times
Above: Pillen Family Farms, owned by Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen, has about 100 hog farms across the state, including Inland Foods in Hastings. Pigs on the site, a former munitions depot, are housed in converted bunkers. Photo by Loren Elliott For The New York Times

by Yanqi Xu

Flatwater Free Press

Published with Permission

Pillen’s family business is one of the nation’s largest pork producers. As he seeks reelection, he has aligned himself with President Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda even though his farms have long taken on undocumented laborers, a Flatwater and New York Times investigation finds.

Before becoming Nebraska’s governor three years ago, Jim Pillen b…