Immigration

A shift in the Trump administration’s stance toward Afghan refugees has shaken members of Wisconsin’s Afghan community, following months of renewed uncertainty about their status in the United States.

Federal immigration “strike teams” are in Minnesota looking for undocumented Somali immigrants, after President Trump referred to them as “garbage” and said he doesn’t want them in the U.S.

Wisconsin’s Supreme Court will take up a case that challenges the practice of holding people in local Wisconsin jails at the request of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan faces federal charges after prosecutors say she helped a man evade Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“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.