NYT: Nebraska governor’s family business employed undocumented workers while backing ICE crackdown

Of course he did. “Republican Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen, a staunch supporter of President Trump’s extreme immigration crackdown, relied on undocumented Hispanic labor to build his multimillion-dollar pig-farming busines…” #RadioFreeAmerica #politics newrepublic.com/post/215202/...

Gov Jim Pillen (R-NE) is a lot like Donald Trump in that he badly wants immigrants rounded up, stashed in concentration camps, and sent home... unless, of course, they work for him.

As he backs Trump and Stephen Miller’s anti-immigrant purge, Republican Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen’s hog business employs undocumented workers. This is one of America’s worst-kept secrets. US businesses—including the Trump Organization—have depended on undocumented labor.

Trump’s regressive immigration policy depends on pretending undocumented workers are taking from America. In 2022, they paid an estimated $19.5 billion in federal income taxes, while Amazon, GM, IBM, and Netflix together paid just over $5 billion in federal income taxes that year.

In this @sciencepolitics.bsky.social piece, Diana Tung (University of Barcelona) and Seth Holmes (UC Berkeley) argue bipartisan legislation that creates pathways to legal status for migrant workers must be passed in order to maintain the country’s food supply. Read their piece. ⤵️

MAGA doesn’t walk the talk… As He Backs ICE Crackdown, Nebraska Governor Employs Undocumented Workers Gov Jim Pillen’s family business is one of the nation’s largest pork producers. He aligns with Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda, but his farms hire undocumented workers www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...

More blatant GOP hypocrisy, with Gov. Jim Pillen now caught up in an undocumented worker scandal. I wondered if #NEGov might pop on the radar, with #NESen also making news and Democratic nominee Lynne Walz having previously won/held a Trump+34 (!) State Senate seat. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...

Gov. Jim Pillen has aligned himself with President Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda. But for more than a decade, his hog business has employed undocumented laborers, The @nytimes.com and Flatwater Free Press found. Read more 🔗 buff.ly/rOH1O9Q

Oh look, another anti-immigrant, wealthy Republican who employed undocumented workers Like Trump, Nebraska Governor Pillen profited from their labor while also exploiting them for political gain www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...

Seems like a bad headline for a governor of a very agricultural state during a presidency that is actively harming farmers.

Despite making himself “tough” on illegal immigration, Nebraska’s Republican governor Jim Pillen employs undocumented migrants at his hog farm.

Nebraska's governor backs ICE deportations but employs undocumented workers in his own businesses. MAGA hypocrisy knows no limits. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen has aligned himself with Trump's hardline stance on immigration. But Pillen Family Farms, one of the largest pork producers in the U.S., employed undocumented immigrants as late as a few years ago. From @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social: flatwaterfreepress.org/gov-pillen-b...

#GIFT_ARTICLE [REPUBLICANS: "DO AS WE SAY, NOT AS WE DO"] WHILE HE PUSHES I.C.E. ATTACKS, NEBRASKA GOVERNOR EMPLOYS HUNDREDS OF UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS As Jim Pillen seeks re-election, he pushes Trump’s anti-immigrant attacks, although he employs many By Yanqi Xu www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...

There are many reasons his nickname is "Pig" Pillen… - - - New Reporting Exposes Nebraska's Republican Gov. Pillen Employs Undocumented Workers, Even As He Backs Trump's ICE Crackdown www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...