Practically 60% of Nebraska voted for Donald Trump final November.
There’s maybe no state extra depending on immigrants than Nebraska.
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This wonderful NPR story highlights the challenges this Trump-loving state now faces on account of its voters’ decisions.
“Nebraska is one of the top meat producers in the U.S. It also has one of the worst labor shortages in the country,” reporter Jasmine Garsd writes. “For every 100 jobs, there are only 39 workers, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.”
She mentions the chief director of the state’s pork producer’s affiliation as smiling “wearily” as colleagues urge attracting extra immigrants to the state to assist fill positions … and but they vote for the man who desires to deport all of them.
Alternatively, there stays a staunch perception that Trump received’t truly perform his mass deportation threats. “There is no manner it may possibly,” the pork man says concerning the deportations.
And for now, perhaps he’s proper. Trump appears extra involved in utilizing performative raids in Chicago and different sanctuary cities to demonize native Democratic politicians and officers who refuse to do his bidding (which they’re usually permitted to do). Trump might rip a couple of dozen undocumented immigrants out of their new group, however he’s extra involved in a raid’s propaganda worth than he’s in its outcomes.
If he actually desires to deport lots of undocumented immigrants, there’s an apparent place to start out: pink states. Many Republican governors have provided to assist. Take Nebraska.
“I am encouraged by the strength of President Trump’s immigration and border security orders,” Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen mentioned in a press release this previous Tuesday. “The state of Nebraska will support these efforts. On my return to Lincoln this week, I will issue an executive order to all state agencies directing them to cooperate to the full extent of the law with federal efforts to enforce our immigration laws and affirmatively support the apprehension of criminal aliens.”
The NPR story quotes a beautiful parishioner at an Episcopalian church who’s working to serve and defend the state’s immigrant group: “I feel there’s nonetheless sufficient in our Nebraska DNA that we do rely on one another. We come from storms, climate incidents, the place you rely in your neighbors and also you go dig any person out of a snowstorm. Even should you do not actually like them, you go dig them out as a result of it is what you do. As a result of we’re Nebraska.”
That parishioner says folks within the state “understand the economic necessity of [immigrant labor], and we are not stupid.”
Nonetheless, given Nebraska’s overwhelming vote for Trump, that assertion appears debatable.
