Migrants, real and imagined, grip US voters, 1,500 miles north of border

Migrants walk along the border wall in El Paso, Texas, on 19 May 2022. Photograph: Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images

Rhinelander is closer to the Arctic Circle than to Mexico, so it is no great surprise that few people in the small Wisconsin city have laid eyes on the foreign migrants Donald Trump claims are “invading” the country from across the US border 1,500 miles to the south.

But Jim Schuh, the manager of a local bakery, is nonetheless sure they are a major problem and he’s voting accordingly.