How ICE raids in Kansas meatpacking country sparked fury – and turned voters against Trump
Summary
Late-September immigration raids in southwest Kansas prompted protests and drove some previously disengaged residents to vote in the midterm election. Dodge City and two nearby counties shifted toward Democrats, helping Adam Hamilton defeat Republican Senator Roger Marshall and giving Kansas its first Democratic U.S. senator in nearly a century, according to the account.Key Facts
- Federal immigration agents carried out raids in southwest Kansas in late September.
- Residents reported that officers detained people, businesses closed, and some children stopped attending school amid fears of further raids.
- Army veteran José Del Real urged residents at a public gathering to vote.
- Community organizer Amy Soberanes said she urged protesters to direct their anger toward voting rather than property damage.
- Dodge City, Garden City, and Liberal form a region known as the Golden Triangle of Meatpacking.
- The region supplies about one-quarter of the U.S. beef supply.
- Dodge City’s population is about two-thirds Latino.
- Democrat Adam Hamilton defeated Republican Senator Roger Marshall in Kansas, marking the state’s first Democratic U.S. senator in nearly a century.
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