From the desert to the Strip: How the election’s fight over immigration may upend Nevada’s economy

Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the remote Nevada desert, Janille and Tom Baker’s hay ranch couldn’t survive without immigrant guest workers who come every year from Mexico. Hundreds of miles away in Las Vegas, immigrants are just as vital, keeping the 24-hour economy humming nonstop. Immigration has become a source of fear and frustration for voters in this presidential election — with possible outcomes that could take the United States down two dramatically different paths. But immigrants who have been in the country for decades say an incredibly complicated and nuanced issue has been drowned out by seemingly simpler, more  black-and-white solutions offered by both parties.