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"Nobody thought something like this could happen here." -- Wilder, Idaho, farmer David Lincoln. More from the article:
"...The farmers are staring down a real problem. Without enough workers, crops could end up rotting in the fields. The people who know how to do this work are either gone or too frightened to come out.
"Wilder voted overwhelmingly for Trump, supporting his tough stance on immigration. But now that enforcement has arrived at their doorstep, residents are dealing with the messy reality of what those policies actually mean. Supporting strict immigration laws is one thing when it's abstract. It's another thing entirely when your neighbour gets deported and there's nobody left to harvest the fields. The town is caught between its political beliefs and its economic survival."
FAFO from the Leopards Eating People's Faces party.
(h/t democraticunderground.com)
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