State, local policies emerge on illegal immigrants
Associated Press  MONTPELIER, Vt. — The two Mexican farmworkers
were nervous. Seated in a pickup truck whose driver had been
stopped for speeding on a Vermont highway, they didn't know what
to expect from the state trooper.  They'd heard of other
farmworkers being detained or deported in the largely white
state, whose $560 million dairy industry relies on Mexican
farmhands like them. But one of the men also had been in a
similar stop in New York and didn't get bothered.  They had no
idea their detention by police and Border Patrol would prompt a
protest by activists at the state police barracks, or the
outpouring of support they've gotten with people offering them
housing and help. The stop would lead Vermont's governor to
change the state police policy on dealing with suspected illegal
immigrants, making it one of the most restrictive on police in
the nation, according to one policy expert who supports tougher
immigration laws.  The combination of more