Local ICE arrest echoes 500 years of history

Local ICE arrest echoes 500 years of history

When masked immigration agents seized three unidentified people from a parking lot in Middlebury one morning last week, it was alarming on many different levels. Addison County has not been the focus of most immigration enforcement during the past year and a half, though it is one New England’s principal dairy regions and depends on immigrant labor. This latest incident will inevitably spread fear through a broad population of men, women and chi…