Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts said at a news conference Monday that illegal immigrants at meatpacking plants won’t be getting the COVID-19 vaccine. Ricketts’s remark came in response to a question if illegal immigrants employed at such facilities would be part of groups of workers getting inoculated under Nebraska’s vaccination program. “Illegal immigrants are not permitted to work in those facilities, so I don’t think that will be a problem,” he said. In light of reports that illegal immigrants account for a proportion of meatpacking industry labor, The Epoch Times reached out to Ricketts’s office, asking whether officials plan to take any specific steps to prevent illegal immigrant workers from getting vaccines when they are made available to meatpacking plant populations. No reply was received by the time of publication. Nebraska’s meatpacking industry is the biggest in America, employing tens of thousands of people, with immigrant labor a key constituent. According to …