Nobody in Wilder, Idaho expected this. The tiny farming town of 1,725 people—where nine out of ten voters backed Donald Trump in 2024—is now scrambling to figure out what comes next after federal immigration agents swept through in mid-October and arrested more than 100 Hispanic workers at a local horse racetrack. So far, 75 people have been deported, and the farms that keep this place running are facing a labour shortage with no easy fix in sight.
I hope every Latino immigrant leaves or refuses to work the fields in these Republican towns, so they can figure out what their votes and immigration policy stances mean.
Most immigrants were there in the first place because they have people to feed. What do you suppose they should do as an alternative after they refuse to work in those fields?
Whatever the alternative, it’s better than dying in a prison cell.
If staying on a farm, something like a field in Vermont or in the PNW Cascades area. If something like construction, it’s in demand all over the place.
Work in another area that’s had many immigrants deported, but in an area and industry that doesn’t fellate Republicans.