The United States does not have a way to measure how well walls or fencing work to deter illegal crossings from Mexico, according to a report released by Congress’ main watchdog.The Government Accountability Office said the government spent $2.3 billion from 2007 to 2015 to extend fences to 654 miles of the nearly 2,000-mile border and more to repair them.Despite those investments, the .... Read More
The Community Immigration Law Center of Madison reports it has never been busier in responding to immigrants trying to understand the ever-changing immigration legal landscape in the U.S.“Fear is at an all-time high as everyone from legal scholars to working families try to decipher announced or implied changes in immigration law,” said Grant Sovern, an immigration attorney who volunteer.... Read More
Washington state Solicitor General Noah Purcell has argued before packed courtrooms, but those crowds paled in comparison to the millions who heard him argue against President Donald Trump’s travel ban before a federal appeals court.Luckily, news of the massive audience didn’t reach him beforehand.“I didn’t really know that it was going to be broadcast live on the networks,” Purc.... Read More
Thousands of people Feb. 13 went on strike, closed their businesses and withdrew their children from school to resist Donald Trump's executive orders on immigration and to stop Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke's from enrolling his department in the federal 287g program.The events, a "Day Without Latinxs, Immigrants and Refugees," culminated in a march from Voces de la Frontera's offices t.... Read More
A Manhattan gallery is displaying a wall of 700 backpacks and belongings of migrants who illegally crossed the U.S. border. Some of them died in the Arizona desert.“Now, more than ever, in the aftermath of a presidential campaign that fed off anti-immigrant and xenophobic rhetoric, it is absolutely critical to look deeper into the migrant experience and raise questions as to what the future .... Read More
The Jewish Community Relations Council of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation “opposes President Donald Trump’s executive orders that would stop entry for refugees from predominantly Muslim countries, halt federal funding for ‘sanctuary cities’ and expand detention for immigrants and asylum seekers,” according to a statement released in late January.The JCRC speaks as the representative vo.... Read More
The University of Wisconsin urged about 130 affected students not to leave the U.S. because they might not be able to return if President Donald Trump’s travel ban affecting seven mostly Muslim countries again goes into effect.The ban was under a court-ordered temporary hold as WiG went to press.Uncertainty reigned as a federal judge stayed the Trump order on Feb. 3 and the issue went to an .... Read More
Not so long ago, House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., had at least some aura of integrity. He resisted Donald Trump’s candidacy nearly down to the wire, going so far as to say the GOP was not Trump’s party.Ryan appeared to have principles. We disagreed with him on nearly all the issues, but at least we believed that he believed in the positions he took.That was another Paul Ryan ago.No.... Read More
Immigration and civil rights advocates in Wisconsin spoke out yesterday against President Donald Trump’s travel ban affecting seven mostly Muslim countries, while the University of Wisconsin urged about 130 affected students not to leave the country because they may not be able to return.Word of people trying to come to Wisconsin from other countries who have had their plans derailed — i.... Read More
President Donald Trump fired top government lawyer Sally Yates after she took the extraordinarily rare step of defying the White House and refused to defend new travel restrictions targeting seven Muslim-majority nations.It was another dramatic twist in the raucous roll-out of Trump's anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim directive that put a 120-day hold on allowing refugees into the country, an indefi.... Read More
