Many immigrants were hired by a factory in which they would work until the company viewed them as useless. Then, as seen in The Jungle, the workers would be fired and forced back into the “mob of the unemployed” that would linger outside of the factory waiting for a job opening (Sinclair 102). Due to the high population of immigrants in need of a job, factories were able to hire the next available immigrant which kept this inhumane cycle running. As seen in Food Inc., this cycle is much worse today. When companies, such as Smithfield, want to fire workers, they will call immigration to have them deported instead of just firing them on the spot. Today, companies are treating workers more like objects that they can dispose of with force, instead of workers that are making their company