The owner of El Campesino PDX says many customers have disappeared, too afraid of detention to venture from their homes. Instead, community groups help them get by.
PORTLAND, Ore. — In Southeast Portland, the Trump administration’s stepped-up immigration enforcement isn’t only a threat to undocumented families seeking to stay together, it’s had a chilling effect on the community such that shop owners say they’re struggling to pay the bills as their regular customers disappear.
Jose Esparza is the owner of El Campesino PDX, a Latin American grocery store on Southeast Powell Boulevard. He says the atmosphere of fear is hurting his bottom line.
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