.” Rosenow
has established deep bonds with a number of immigrant families from Veracruz,
Mexico. “We have members from three different families, and they have been
providing us with labor for 20 years now,” he said. “They are highly skilled.
They know how to do everything.”
After
decades of working alongside immigrants, Rosenow has learned to admire their
discipline. “If you’re a dairy farmer, you have a certain kind of work ethic,”
he told me. “I work a lot. All the time. They have the same thing.” When I
asked him what would happen if Trump’s allegedly massive raids reached
Wisconsin and swept away many of the immigrants who work in the state’s dairy
industry, Rosenow didn’t hesitate. “Within days there wouldn’t be any milk on
the shelves,” he assured me. “There would be no people to milk the cows. A lot
of the cows would go to slaughter and the industry would downsize by at least 50
percent. There would be a shortage of milk, cheese, and butter within maybe a
week.”
