Bill on Migrants Splits a Town With Few – What Some Called a Preventive Measure Seemed to Others an Effort to Fan Biases – Taneytown, Maryland

There are fewer than two dozen foreign-born residents in this historic but ailing town of 6,700 near the Pennsylvania border, including a Mexican landscaper and a Chinese family that owns a restaurant on Main Street. There are no store signs in Spanish, no crowded boarding houses, no men looking for jobs on the corners.

Yet this month, the bitter regional and national debate over illegal immigration has reached remote Taneytown. It has divided local officials, drawn activists and TV crews to town meetings and exposed deep emotional fault lines in a small, largely white farming community that feels both afraid it might be overwhelmed by poor Hispanics who are in the country illegally and ashamed it might be tarred as racist and intolerant.”*

*From: www.washingtonpost.com
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