01/10/2024

Candidates' Rhetoric, Ads Frighten Immigrants in Iowa

Some fear the messages will lead to violence

The grocery store had been her American Dream, but now Norah Innis wondered if she'd be better off bolting the doors and moving back to Liberia.

Sales were down. Rent was harder to pay. And campaign ads dominating Iowa's screens and airwaves ahead of the first Republican showdown of 2024 seemed to paint immigrants like her as the enemy.

She worried the rhetoric could fuel violence.

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