In May 2024, between 150 and 200 workers at a Delta Egg plant were dismissed after the company cut its contract with the labour contractor who had hired them. Many of the worker were undocumented and from countries in Latin America, including Venezuela, Peru and Mexico. Neither workers nor the labour contracting firm, El Gallinero, was not told why the contract was so abruptly terminated; the workers protested the sudden action, together with the owner of El Gallinero. Delta Egg Farm is owned by Cal-Maine Foods; the company did not respond to journalists' request for comment.

At the beginning of June, it was reported that at least 100 workers were hired back, including some undocumented employees. Some others were rehired by another contractor used by Delta Egg Farm, including those who had protested their terminations.