Immigrants Revitalize the Heartland

Mirian Jordan writes for the Wall Street Journal:

José Rodas moved to this blue-collar town on the Des Moines River in 2001 to take a job at the Cargill pork plant, after more than a decade eking out an existence in California and Nevada.

Within a year, the Guatemalan immigrant had saved enough money to buy a house for his family. Last March, he opened the town’s first tortilla factory.

“It’s much better here than in California,” says Mr. Rodas, who works mornings at his “Tortilleria Los Twins” and the late shift at the Cargill plant. Read more…

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