From Sac Bee:
The two Mexican farmworkers were nervous. Seated in a pickup truck whose driver had been stopped for speeding on a Vermont highway, they didn’t know what to expect from the state trooper.
They’d heard of other farmworkers being detained or deported in the largely white state, whose $560 million dairy industry relies on Mexican farmhands like them. But one of the men also had been in a similar stop in New York and didn’t get bothered.
They had no idea their detention by police and Border Patrol would prompt a protest by activists at the state police barracks, or the outpouring of support they’ve gotten with people offering them housing and help. The stop would lead Vermont’s governor to change the state police policy on dealing with suspected illegal immigrants, making it one of the most restrictive on police in the nation, according to one policy expert who supports tougher immigration laws.
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