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Wisconsin residents outraged over Foxconn upheaval Families were forced out of Mount Pleasant for a huge high-tech plant, but three years later it still has not been built By Tom Perkins / The Guardian, MOUNT PLEASANT, Wisconsin When Sean McFarlane recently returned to the site where his lifelong home was demolished, he found in its place a retention pond and hundreds of geese perched on a hill. The quiet scene came as a shock. The Wisconsin village of Mount Pleasant had effectively forced him, his girlfriend and four children from their home in 2017 to make way for a proposed high-tech plant owned by Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn, a plant that US President Donald Trump had said would soon be the “eighth wonder of the world.” ....