Immigrant families sever lifelong ties to flee red state ICE operations
NPR reports that shrinking rural populations have gained from migration, but Trump’s immigration policy is hurting that trend. The human costs to migrants are great:
"Castro [a migrant] says, when her state started cooperating with ICE, she got scared. She decided to self-deport. She flew to Mexico City, population 9 million. She hadn't lived in a city larger than 30,000 since she was a child. At first, she just wanted to come home - to Wyoming.
CASTRO: And I remember sobbing and saying, you don't understand because I had my future planned out. I had my entire future planned out in this beautiful community that I adored (crying) in the state that I loved and was so proud to be from.
EDWARDS: It's been eight months, and Castro is starting to settle in. She rented an apartment, is taking Spanish classes and works remotely. She has no plans to return to Wyoming.
For NPR News, I'm Melodie Edwards in Laramie, Wyoming."
