The United States is deporting about 200 employers of the JBS meat-packing plant at Ottumwa, Iowa.
The news came from the mayor during a municipal council meeting where he called for people to keep those facing deportation in their thoughts.
The 200 employees were previously legal workers, but the federal government has revoked their visas.
"JBS has been issuing 200 notices to people from Haiti, Cuba, Guatemala and Nicaragua,” the mayor said.
In May, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to proceed with the revocation of past administrations’ grant of temporary legal status for more than 500,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, based on political repression, violence or natural disasters in those countries.
Some people losing temporary legal status may be able to apply for political asylum.
