Source: Victoria Bouloubasis, CIVIL EATS, 11/13/18


 
The day after Hurricane Florence plowed through eastern North Carolina—Saturday, September 15—Isabel sat on the couch in her mobile home in Lenoir County and counted out some cash. Calculating how much water and food her family needed, she was prepped to trek through floodwaters to the closest Walmart with her husband. But before she could put shoes on her kids’ feet, Isabel received a text message from a friend. “It was a message people sent around saying that la migra [Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)] was out here,” Isabel—who, along with her husband, works in the food system, processing pork and harvesting field crops—recalls. “One person tells another, and then another, and the advice was to not leave the house.”

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