Quoted in In secret recording, Vos says immigrant 'culture' was to blame for COVID-19 outbreak in Racine County. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6/11/2020)
The art of Wisconsin gerrymander
Vos wants nothing to do with the City of Racine, where the population is 22.8% African-American and 23.1% Hispanic or Latino. Vos's district is 84% white.
About that 'immigrant culture'...
But aside from being the muckraking novel that led to the creation of the FDA or a socialist call to arms that went largely unheard, The Jungle is a story of how U.S. society exploits immigrants. This reading is often overlooked, yet it is worth remembering that sympathy for and solidarity with immigrants is at the heart of this seminal work of literature — especially amid the xenophobic atmosphere of the United States today, where the president has shut down the government over a border wall with Mexico, detention facilities hold untold numbers of immigrants, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stalk communities across the country. It’s been more than a century since the publication of The Jungle, yet the predation described by Sinclair still persists.
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