Meatpacker Woes? Part Two

Alan Tonelson is a cold-eyed observer of the US economy.  He reads the numbers and lets the chips fall where they may--thus, he's not liked by either side of any controversy.

Here's his take on the meat-packer/Chinese Communist Party Virus problem:

...There can’t be any question that, until the CCP Virus crisis passes, the keys to restoring the national meat supply chain’s functionality in a way that doesn’t take a fearsome toll on workers will be to combine the Trump administration’s stay open orders with equally strong and sweeping requirements that the companies prioritize employee safety. But it should also be clear that, over the longer run, if Americans don’t want a meatpacking industry that cruelly exploits a largely illegal alien workforce and is therefore dangerously vulnerable to pandemics, it will make sure the companies don’t find it so easy to hire so many illegal aliens to begin with.

See what I mean?  Meatpackers are generally craven opportunists; at the same time, the Clinton/Bush/Obozo border policies have enabled meatpackers to be craven opportunists.