In 2013, Reporter Abbie Fentress Swanson and Harvest Public Media received a grant from the Institute for Justice & Journalism’s “Immigration in the Heartland” fellowship to explore two rural communities where children and their families were living “In the Shadows of the Slaughterhouse:” Noel, MO and Garden City, KS–two communities that have taken remarkably different approaches to welcoming immigrants. In November, Abbie and I spoke about the changes seen in Missouri over the past 20 years, and in December 2013, the story about Noel, Missouri aired on National Public Radio.