Takeaways from AP's report on how Trump's immigration crackdown resonates in the Texas Panhandle
- In mid-April 2025, immigrant trucker Kevenson Jean left the Texas Panhandle believing it was his last work trip amid uncertain immigration status.
- This followed early April emails from the Department of Homeland Security telling some legally residing immigrants, including Jean, to leave the United States immediately.
- The Texas Panhandle’s meatpacking industry depends heavily on immigrant labor, with nearly half its workers foreign-born, many facing confusion over shifting legal protections.
- Over 500,000 immigrants from countries including Cuba and Haiti faced the termination of their legal protections on April 24, but this action was temporarily blocked by a federal judge.
- This situation creates ongoing uncertainty for immigrants and local industries, with union leaders warning of repeated workforce turnover and community instability.
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Immigrants in North Texas live in limbo under Trump’s repression
The trucker prunes the lawn of his home in Texas for a windy afternoon, in a town so quiet that it is possible to take evening walks in the middle of the main avenue.
Immigrants who came to the Texas Panhandle to work legally told 'it's time for you to leave'
The truck driver is cutting his lawn on a windy afternoon, in a town so quiet you can take afternoon walks down the middle of Main Street. Kevenson Jean is leaving the next day for another long haul and wants things neat at the two-bedroom home he shares with his wife in the Texas Panhandle town fittingly called Panhandle. So after mowing he carefully pulls grass from around the flagpoles in his front yard. One holds the Haitian flag, the other …

Immigrants working legally in the Texas Panhandle live in limbo under Trump's crackdown
Confusion and fear are rippling through the immigrant communities of the Texas Panhandle, where newcomers have come for generations to work in its immense meatpacking plants.
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In the small town of Cactus, Texas, a sense of fear and uncertainty has settled over Haitian migrants like Nicole and Idaneau Mintor. Both are employed at the JBS meatpacking plant, a facility that is home to 3,700 workers, many of whom are immigrants. The plant has become a melting pot of cultures, with people fro ...
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