The November election of Donald Trump has given hope to a large number of native residents of a small Indiana town that has been swamped by migrants.
The small southern Indiana town of Seymour finds itself in the midst of Joe Biden’s ongoing border crisis, but resident Dana Clark, 66, was heard at a recent town hall meeting that “Trump brought hope. Day one is going to see the biggest deportation ever.”
Seymour, which is situated about an hour south of Indianapolis, is just one more small town feeling the brunt of Biden’s border failures. Residents began debating the logic of finding hundreds of illegal migrants flooding their area. Sadly, one resident paid for this chaos with his life when James Bradley Castner was killed by a migrant driving illegally without a license.
Even before Castner’s death, the town had already become alarmed at the influx of illegal aliens after town Mayor Matt Nicholson, a Republican who first won in office in 2019 and has since earned two terms, released a plan created by the left-wing Brookings Institution to ramp up the number of migrants in Seymour. It was a 68-page plan that soon sparked fury while the country by and large was suffering from some of the worst effects of Joe Biden’s border crisis.
As the Wall Street Journal, noted, the migrant population had already seen heavy growth in Seymour. In the 1990s, Hispanics only made up a negligible one percent of Seymour’s population. By the year 2000, that rose slightly to five percent. But by 2020, it had soared to 26 percent. And the number has since soared again, with 435 immigration cases filed over the last year alone compared to only 66 cases in all of 2021.
The Brookings Institute proposal — which contained plans to build a large migrant welcoming center in Seymour — brought contentious city hall meetings as residents stormed in to express their alarm. A Facebook group helping to organize the detractors of the plan also brought even more attention to the town’s migrant plight.