Industry groups told the Washington Post the sweeps are "having a massive chilling effect on the legal, documented, skilled workers that put beef on the table." They gave no count of lost workers.
What we’re less sure of2 of 6 claims
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The disruption and the price rise are linked: the sweeps occurred 'as beef prices rise.'
The headline puts the two together, and a reader may take it as causal, but no named source attributes the price rise to the sweeps. USDA and the KC Fed (via Kansas State) attribute high beef prices mainly to a cattle-herd supply problem, the herd being at a 75-year low. The headline wording is the
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The sweeps are deterring legal, documented workers, not only undocumented ones.
This is an interpretation attributed to industry groups via the Washington Post. HPPR, KCUR and KWCH report community fear and workers staying at their workplaces, but the size of the effect is the industry groups' characterization.