Rural Trump voters have second thoughts about opposing immigration after ICE raids

[floridafan]

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently conducted a large-scale workplace raid in Bean Station, Tennessee, a rural community that overwhelmingly voted for President Donald Trump in 2016.

However, many community members who backed Trump nonetheless found themselves disturbed at the way that ICE had gone about rounding up immigrant families — and now they’re rethinking their past hard-line stance on immigration.

In a lengthy report published by The New Yorker, some local residents say that raids such as the one in their community go against their deeply held Christian values.

“I’m a Christian; God loves everybody equally,” 50-year-old Hank Smith told the publication. “And I never had a problem with anyone being here… immigration didn’t really affect me before. But then this raid happened.”

Pastor David Williams, who leads the local Hillcrest Baptist Church, says he’s seen people in his congregation change their minds about the best way to deal with undocumented immigrants.

“You cannot be a true Christian if you ignore your neighbor in need,” he told the New Yorker. “The people in the middle have had their hearts soften because of the raid.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/rur...ce-raids-town/

[evince]

republicans love to break up brown families

[Sirthinksalot]

republicans love to break up brown families

Republicans understand the importance of law and order idiot. Liberal idiots like you use emotions to make decisions instead of rational thought. Bunch of morons.

[Nordberg]

Republicans understand the importance of law and order idiot. Liberal idiots like you use emotions to make decisions instead of rational thought. Bunch of morons.

people living in peace and working for the farmers are destroying law and order? OK.

[Sirthinksalot]

people living in peace and working for the farmers are destroying law and order? OK.

Living in peace? Feeling a little dramatic today Nordberg? If farmers need workers from other countries, they can follow the law and use the temporary worker program. That's what it's for. The idea that it's ok for people to come and live here in clear violation of US law needs to end. Put your appeals to emotion aside for once.

[Fentoine Lum]

Republicans understand the importance of law and order idiot. Liberal idiots like you use emotions to make decisions instead of rational thought. Bunch of morons.

Actually if you look through american history, the power structure has always targeted the family structure of populations and groups it sought to enslave, remove or subjugate. It's been a very effective and oft repeated tactic. But we don't really learn american history such as the removal of native kids from their families/homes to be white-brainwashing raised in boarding schools where they were brutalized and raped. This continued into the 1970s-80s-90s.

Just one example.

[Fentoine Lum]

Republicans understand the importance of law and order idiot. Liberal idiots like you use emotions to make decisions instead of rational thought. Bunch of morons.

Yeah, nothing emotional about tiki torch parades.

[Sirthinksalot]

Actually if you look through american history, the power structure has always targeted the family structure of populations and groups it sought to enslave, remove or subjugate. It's been a very effective and oft repeated tactic. But we don't really learn american history such as the removal of native kids from their families/homes to be white-brainwashing raised in boarding schools where they were brutalized and raped. This continued into the 1970s-80s-90s.

Just one example.

The treatment of American Indians 100+ years ago has zero to do with getting people who are here illegally out in the present. What is wrong with removing people who have no business being here in the first place?

[Sirthinksalot]

Yeah, nothing emotional about tiki torch parades.

Were the ICE agents carrying torches? I must have missed that part.

[Fentoine Lum]

The treatment of American Indians 100+ years ago has zero to do with getting people who are here illegally out in the present. What is wrong with removing people who have no business being here in the first place?

As stated above, "This continued into the 1970s-80s-90s".

[Fentoine Lum]

Were the ICE agents carrying torches? I must have missed that part.

This was your post I responded to:

Republicans understand the importance of law and order idiot. Liberal idiots like you use emotions to make decisions instead of rational thought. Bunch of morons.

[Sirthinksalot]

As stated above, "This continued into the 1970s-80s-90s".

If you have some evidence of kids being forcibly removed in the 90s without a valid reason, I'd love to see it.

[Sirthinksalot]

This was your post I responded to:

Republicans understand the importance of law and order idiot. Liberal idiots like you use emotions to make decisions instead of rational thought. Bunch of morons.

Still didn't see anything about torches.

[Fentoine Lum]

Still didn't see anything about torches.

Or ICE aqents.

[Fentoine Lum]

If you have some evidence of kids being forcibly removed in the 90s without a valid reason, I'd love to see it.

But you sure won't go find out for yourself will ya.


"Since those years, tribal nations have increasingly insisted on community-based schools and have also founded numerous tribal colleges and universities. Community schools have also been supported by the federal government through the BIA and legislation. The largest boarding schools have closed. By 2007, most of the schools had been closed down and the number of Native American children in boarding schools had declined to 9,500. During this same period, more Native Americans moved to urban environments accommodating in varying degrees and manners to majority culture."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americ...arding_schools