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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA Washington county that went for Trump is shaken as immigrant neighbors start disappearing
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/northwest/fear-regrets-as-pacific-county-residents-go-missing-amid-immigration-crackdown-police-chief-neighbors-kind-of-in-shock-after-immigration-arrests-in-pacific-county-immigration-crack/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=article_title_1.1Many in Pacific County thought President Trump would take away drug dealers, criminals, rapists with his immigration crackdown. They were shocked to see who started to go missing.
Named after a character in a cowboy book, Police Chief Flint Wright describes himself as pretty conservative.
A portrait of Ronald Reagan hangs in his office, along with photos of John Wayne, and his father and grandfather on horses capturing the rural lifestyle of Pacific County, which curves around Willapa Bay in the states southwest corner.
He doesnt talk about it much, but he voted for Donald Trump, helping Pacific County go with the Republican presidential candidate for the first time in decades. Among other things, he liked Trumps promise to secure the borders. Economic migrants are not a problem in his mind hes seen how hard they work but he wondered, whos coming with them? Terrorists, he feared.
Then came the July arrest of Mario Rodriguez by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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Trump, on the campaign, had talked about kicking out Mexican drug dealers, criminals, rapists. And thats the kind of immigration crackdown a lot of people here were expecting.
Yeah, we dont want that element, Wright said. But Rodriguez? The police chief couldnt believe sending him back to Mexico would do anybody any good.
That kind of shock is reverberating throughout the county as Trumps toughened immigration policy hits home. ICE has arrested at least 28 people in the county this year, according to numbers provided to the Sheriffs Office.
While thats just a small share of the roughly 3,100 ICE arrests overseen by its regional office in Seattle which covers Washington, Oregon and Alaska it represents a pronounced upward trajectory. Last year, ICE reported eight Pacific County arrests to the sheriff and for a long stretch of years before that, zero.
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MFM008
(19,814 posts)Why don't republicans dissappear.
More_Cowbell
(2,191 posts)There was no evidence that Trump believed any of the things he said, or would stick to any of the things he said. There was plenty of evidence of the opposite.
There are a lot of armed, uncritical thinkers out there.
iluvtennis
(19,862 posts)during Primaries and GE. An no repercussions.
Wounded Bear
(58,664 posts)other than hate, he was on at least two sides of every issue I can think of.
iluvtennis
(19,862 posts)yardwork
(61,649 posts)I don't forgive them. They helped destroy people's lives.
maxrandb
(15,334 posts)Is the kind of guy I like to tell; "you know, John Wayne was gay".
Makes their heads explode
Aristus
(66,382 posts)Right up there with Ronald Reagan. Hollywood soldiers, both of them.
Why don't people like that espouse Hollywood stars like Jimmy Stewart? Stewart was a Republican, and he flew combat missions over Germany as a bomber pilot.
Why do they constantly dry-hump phonies like John Wayne and Ronald Reagan?
GusBob
(7,286 posts)Ghestapo