Foiled White Supremacist Plot Unites Community Around Immigrants

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In the weeks before the 2016 election, the FBI and local police officers in Kansas foiled a terrorist plot by three members of an anti-Muslim white-supremacist group called the Crusadors.

The trio, who go on trial this June, had planned to bomb an apartment complex comprised of mostly Somali immigrants who lived in the small, meat-packing town of Garden City, Kansas. News of the attack rattled the Somali community, but not one family moved out. Garden City, which has a history of immigrant workers, also has a new police chief in town who has been determined to forge trust between his officers and the newest immigrant population who traditionally had a distrust of the police.

Ted Genoways is an award-wining writer and editor who has spent years reporting on meat packing towns like Garden City.  His article, just published in the New Republic and produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, shows how a town rallied behind an immigrant community that was under threat.   

This segment is hosted by Noel King.