Trumpâs mass deportation plan has broken the quiet of small US towns: âWe have to take care of each otherâ
Immigration agents have spread into rural western Wisconsin, taking dozens of people from towns in more politically conservative areas The Mexican restaurant where multiple workers were taken in February still sits dark, across the road from a travel plaza where people were also arrested by federal agents. An Ecuadorian market in a nearby town targeted by immigration agents is back open again, with a sign on the door telling people to ring the bell before entering. And J was still staying inside â the federal agents had already taken his wife, and he couldnât risk being taken, too. Someone had to take care of their 18-month-old child while the family worked to reunite. âThe United States is the American dream, thatâs what they call it,â said J, who came to the US from Venezuela in 2023, in Spanish. He asked to be referred to by his initial due to fears of immigration enforcement. âBut no, it wasnât like that.â When federal agents menaced the Minneapolis metropolitan area earlier this year, they also spread into rural western Wisconsin, taking dozens of people from smaller towns in more politically conservative areas. Immigration agents arenât just targeting blue c
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