Immigrants provide important economic contributions in Wisconsin, report says

In Wisconsin, the report found that immigrants paid $3 billion in federal, state and local taxes in 2022, and held $3.3 billion in spending power. “There’s an undercount in the Latinx population, and, in particular, the undocumented population,” Armando Ibarra said. “This population of folks is hesitant to interact with folks that represent the federal government or the state government, because of their precarious immigration status…This industry only thrives because of mostly Latin American immigrant labor, with the vast majority of these folks having an unauthorized immigration status,” Ibarra said. “Everybody knows it. It’s an open secret.”