ICE agents came to meatpacking country in Kansas. Then voters went to the polls
The Associated Press reports from Dodge City, Kansas, that late-September immigration raids turned long-apathetic residents like Army veteran Jose Del Real into determined voters, helping swing three Republican strongholds left and elect a Democratic U.S. senator from Kansas for the first time in nearly a century. Local organizer Amy Soberanes credits ICE itself — saying the county would still be red otherwise — while commissioner Rick Sowers says officials never got answers about the detained, and the Wichita Eagle found none of the five "heinous criminals" the administration named were actually caught.