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How the Threat of an ICE Detention Center Galvanized a Trump-Country Coal Town

When Joe Wiscount was a teenager in Tremont, Pennsylvania, a tiny town in a region once ruled by coal barons, he worked a summer job stretching tarps over a pit in the countryside, preparing it to be filled with garbage. When he moved back to his hometown wit…

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