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FILE - U.S. President Donald Trump, right, chats with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Nov. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Trump signs executive order putting greater restrictions on Chinese purchases, investments in U.S.

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Achut Deng, a refugee from South Sudan, poses in her home in Sioux Falls, S.D., on Sept. 17, 2022, before the release of her memoir, “Don’t Look Back.” Deng shared her experience of being sickened with COVID-19 alongside hundreds of her coworkers at a pork processing plant. She shares her story of fleeing massacres and surviving a refugee story in her book. (AP Photo/Stephen Groves)

‘Don’t Look Back’: Refugee, plant worker writes of survival

By Stephen Groves - Associated Press

In this May 20, 2020, file photo, residents cheer and hold thank you signs to greet employees of a Smithfield pork processing plant as they begin their shift in Sioux Falls, S.D. Workers at the South Dakota meatpacking plant that became a coronavirus hotspot last year are considering a strike after contract negotiations between Smithfield Foods and the union have stalled, the union said Wednesday, June 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Stephen Groves, File) **FILE**

Union vote authorizes strike at South Dakota pork plant

By Stephen Groves - Associated Press

A year into COVID, Smithfield workers still have questions

By MAKENZIE HUBER and ALFONZO GALVAN - Associated Press

Animal rights group says 91 pigs died in cold at pork plant

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Smithfield Foods offers COVID-19 shots at Sioux Falls plant

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In this May 7, 2020, file photo, workers enter and leave the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Logansport, Ind. Tyson Foods is planning to open medical clinics at several of its U.S. plants to improve the health of workers at the same time it is under pressure to better protect them from the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File) **FILE**

House panel to probe meatpacking plants over coronavirus outbreaks

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

NC court order threatens executive branch power over funds

By GARY D. ROBERTSON - Associated Press

Worker in Smithfield Foods plant in Crete killed in accident

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FILE - In this May 20, 2020, file photo, residents cheer and hold thank you signs to greet employees of a Smithfield pork processing plant as they begin their shift in Sioux Falls, S.D. Federal regulators said Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020, they have cited Smithfield Foods for failing to protect employees from exposure to the coronavirus at the company's Sioux Falls plant, an early hot spot for virus infections that hobbled American meatpacking plants. (AP Photo/Stephen Groves, File)

Smithfield Foods pork plant faces OSHA fine from outbreak

By STEPHEN GROVES - Associated Press

Smithfield, OSHA reach agreement on sharing information

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In this photo provided by Cristobal Francisquez, his parents Paulina and Marcos Francisco pose for a photo in front of their house in Sioux City, Iowa, Monday, May 25, 2020. They bought the home after years of working in a meatpacking plant and other food processing jobs. (Cristobal Francisquez via AP)

Worker shortage concerns loom in immigrant-heavy meatpacking

By STEPHEN GROVES and SOPHIA TAREEN - Associated Press

In this Thursday, April 9, 2020 photo, Nancy Reynoza, director of Que Pasa Sioux Falls, who organized a protest in solidarity with Smithfield Food, Inc. employees after many workers complained of unsafe working conditions due to the COVID-19 outbreak in Sioux Falls, S.D. The pork processing plant in South Dakota is closing temporarily after more than 80 employees tested positive for the coronavirus. (Erin Bormett/The Argus Leader via AP)

South Dakota city plans ‘thank you’ for meatpacking workers

By STEPHEN GROVES - Associated Press

Judge dismisses Missouri lawsuit over meat worker safety

By JIM SALTER - Associated Press

Employees of two departments at the Smithfield pork processing plant in Sioux Falls, S.D. report to work on Monday, May 4, 2020, as the plant moved to reopen after a coronavirus outbreak infected workers. (AP Photo/Stephen Groves)

Meatpackers cautiously reopen plants amid coronavirus fears

By STEPHEN GROVES - Associated Press

This Monday, April 20, 2020 photo, shows the Tyson Fresh Meats beef processing complex in Dakota City, Neb. Tyson announced in a news release Thursday, April 30, 2020, that it would close the Dakota City plant Friday through Monday to perform a deep cleaning of the facility. State health officials have reported hundreds of new coronavirus cases in the county where the plant is located and the county where Sioux City is located. (Tim Hynds/Sioux City Journal via AP)

Pork producer says it needs flexibility on virus guidelines

By JIM SALTER - Associated Press

President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., on the coronavirus response, in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, April 28, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump order keeping meat packing plants open worries unions

By JILL COLVIN - Associated Press