The Marshall Project

In Trump Country, ICE May Chill Immigrants’ Crime Reports

Fewer calls on opioid abuse may mean sicker, and more dangerous, rural communities.

Rural Americans who overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump apparently thought they were dealing a blow to a government they believed had forgotten them.

What they did, though, in the midst of a violent crime spike in rural America, was deal a kneecap to themselves.

How?

They voted for a president whose unleashing of Immigration and Customs Enforcement could be silencing

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