Trump voter and farmer is shocked to find that deportations are happening.
Vt. farmers wanted stricter immigration policies. Now Trump’s deportation push is hurting their businesses - Boston Globe
Dustin Machia was excited to vote for Donald Trump for president last year, in part because he pledged to crack down on illegal immigration.
“We had a border problem,” Machia said. “We don’t want bad people in here. We don’t need the drugs and the gangbangers.”
But following high-profile deportations of migrant farmworkers in northern Vermont, Machia, a fifth-generation dairy farmer, said he feels misled.
“All the dairy farmers who voted for Trump were under the impression they weren’t going to come on farms and take our guys,” said Machia, 37. “It’s happening more than we’d like. It’s scaring the farming community and we’re like, ‘This wasn’t supposed to happen.’”