Immigration

This election year, WPR is asking people what issues they care about as they head to the polls. In Wausau, some asked whether state and local governments were doing enough to smooth the way for new arrivals.

A statewide proposal on the Nov. 5 ballot would amend language in the Wisconsin Constitution that limits voting to U.S. citizens.

While Wisconsin is more than a thousand miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, immigration has emerged as one of the top issues in the race for president. Those numbers are driven almost entirely by GOP voters.

The Republican former president addressed a crowd Saturday inside a high school auditorium in Prairie du Chien.

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance described a decline in public safety and repeatedly criticized the Biden administration for its immigration policies during a visit to Eau Claire on Tuesday. 

Immigrant workers involved in labor disputes could be temporarily protected from deportation under a Biden-Harris Administration policy. 

UMOS recently confirmed that long-time employee Jose Martinez will become the organization’s next permanent president and CEO. He joined WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” to discuss its programs and the impact they have on farmworker families.

A Milwaukee resettlement agency helps Muslim immigrants and refugees find food that meets Muslim dietary guidelines. New funding will help them expand their cultural food programs.

Immigration, crime and border issues are ubiquitous topics during election time. But a UW-Madison sociology professor says politicians get a lot wrong about how these topics intersect.

Some Wisconsin business and immigrants rights groups say new executive actions by the Biden Administration on immigration will help address the state’s labor shortage. But they say larger federal immigration reforms are still needed.