Immigration

“This is now a highly trained workforce with experience that is necessary to keep the industry going,” Francisco Guerrero said. “There would be no dairy industry without these workers.”

President Donald Trump’s widespread tariffs and expansion of immigration arrests are harming Latino businesses, according to the head of a chamber of commerce in Madison and the co-founder of a marketplace for Latina entrepreneurs.

A former Milwaukee teacher’s aide is among the people suing over a change in federal immigration policy. The lawsuit accuses ICE of breaking federal laws and policies that are intended to protect crime victims.

Students at Milwaukee School of Engineering are protesting the presence of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office on campus.

On Friday, a Waukesha County judge ordered the state Elections Commission to verify the citizenship status of all Wisconsin voters in time for the next statewide election. But the Dane County Clerk says overhauling the current system would be a “huge multiyear project.”

In public health researcher William Lopez’s new book, he studies worksite raids in small, rural and mostly white communities. In “Raiding the Heartland,” he said immigration enforcement has long-lasting ripple effects that devastated entire communities.

Some community and faith leaders in Manitowoc County are calling for more transparency from the federal government after more than 20 people were arrested by federal immigration and law enforcement officials last week.

A local Wisconsin police department could soon be authorized to make immigration arrests and conduct immigration investigations. 

Hmong people have a history of being forced out of countries. But one Hmong family has found a farm to call its own near Eau Claire.

The American Civil Liberties Union is suing five Wisconsin sheriffs over their practice of holding people in jail at the request of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.