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Mid-Week Protest in Small Wisconsin City Supports Immigrant Workers [1]
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Date: 2025-04-10
Protesters showed up in New London, WI on Wednesday morning in support of workers at the Tyson Foods plant there who have been on the job at Tyson and living in the community under the "Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela Parole Program" (CHNV) instituted by President Biden and being terminated by the current administration. Residents with those visas have been notified that they are to self-deport by April 24, 2025. The program gave temporary legal status to immigrants fleeing those countries until 2026. Their neighbors and co-workers gathered to support them and to oppose Trump’s immigration moves.
New London is hardly a liberal bastion. I live in Appleton, another city in Outagamie County, and our county tends to swing to the middle overall, but hard-right outside of Appleton itself. New London is in the middle of an agricultural region and has a population as of 2023 of about 7,500 people, 88% white, about 6% Hispanic, 2% Asian. Tyson foods is the biggest employer and thus very central to the economy.
And yet, the mostly-white protesters who were interviewed (click on the link to see photos) said they were trying to call attention to the termination of this program, “We really just want those legal recourse options to be available to people," (protester Emily Tseffos) said. "When you're just cutting them off, you're forcing more people to immigrate. It's going to still happen. It's going to be illegal now.”
Our House Representative and Trump loyalist Tony Weid (yes, that’s really his name) responded with a comment that sneered at the Biden Administration and talked about what a paradise Saint Donny is creating…. you know, the usual drivel.
But I’ll close with my favorite quote from one of the citizens of New London:
Protester Marc Christopher is against the termination of the CHNV visa program. He said if you're in the U.S., "You're our neighbor. We don't ask questions about how you came into the United States. Good people are good people, neighbors are neighbors, children are children, and we support them."
If this can happen in New London, it inspires a little hope in me.
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