Immigrants Keep an Iowa Meatpacking Town Alive and Growing

$47 an hour inflation adjusted for unskilled labor, that's incredible.

Another example: the founder of Chobani yogurt is an immigrant himself. Not only has he hired scores of immigrants to work in his company (particularly in Twin Falls, Idaho), but the effects on the local economies here in upstate New York have also been a tremendous boon. As a result, New York State now produces more Greek yogurt than Greece itself.

https://esd.ny.gov/esd-media-center/success-stories/yogurt-i...

That's a pretty positive spin on an ethically undefensible industry.