There's a remarkable shift happening in one of the most unlikely places: the small, quiet, snow-covered city of Storm Lake in Northwest Iowa. And, while Storm Lake isn't Ellis Island, the opportunity for jobs -- especially in one of its two meatpacking plants -- has drawn people recently from as far as Micronesia. Before the turn of the century, Mayor Mike Porsch recalled his high school graduating class at Storm Lake High School as close to 100 percent Caucasian. "If you want to grow in a rural area, you're going to need immigration to support your businesses and the economics in your community," Porsch said. And consider this -- a decade ago, Storm Lake's unemployment hovered near 5 percent, and has since dropped just below 2 percent.

Source: Fox News February 05, 2020 22:41 UTC