Pro-Trump Town Upset One Of The 'Good Ones' Can Be Deported
I live just about equidistant between Chicago -- where I called home for 25 years -- and West Frankfort -- which I have never visited.
In other words, about halfway between Il Douche's Terrifying Cartoon Municipal Hellscape and deepest, whitest Trump Country.
And now federal immigration agents have done what no other force on Earth has been able to do: crack the heretofore impenetrable barrier of Hate Radio and white grievance behind which so much of Rustbelt America walls itself off from the real world, and inflict a little reality on the good folks of Pleasantville West Frankfort.
And they did not like it. No sir. Not one little bit.
From The New York Times:
He’s a Local Pillar in a Trump Town. Now He Could Be Deported.
By MONICA DAVEY FEB. 27, 2017
WEST FRANKFORT, Ill. — Ask residents of this coal-mining crossroads about President Trump’s decision to crack down on undocumented immigrants and most offer no protest. Mr. Trump, who easily won this mostly white southern Illinois county, is doing what he promised, they say. As Terry Chambers, a barber on Main Street, put it, the president simply wants “to get rid of the bad eggs.”
But then they took Carlos.