The keynote lunch address on May 3 was “Voces Unbound: Immigration, protests, and the Power of Community Art” with UW-Madison professor Dr. Armando Ibarra…On May 2, a large protest for immigrant and worker rights occurred …
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May Day with Armando Ibarra
WORT 89.9 FM Madison host Allen Ruff is joined in the studio by Armando Ibarra to celebrate International Workers Day or May Day, a day that has long been one of working class mobilization. Initiated …
VOCES Panel Discusses Campus Response to ICE, Visa Revocations
The University of Wisconsin student organization VOCES, Voices of Courage, held a “Know Your Rights” panel for professors and students Tuesday. The panel focused on how to navigate potential U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement situations on …
While Trump deports immigrants, this Wisconsin farm can’t run without them
Despite rhetoric that undocumented immigrants hinder the U.S. economy, they are vital to Wisconsin’s dairy industry, farmers and experts said. While President Donald Trump has ramped up anti-immigrant rhetoric in his second term, undocumented immigrants play a …
Undocumented workers by the numbers: The contributions and economic impact of their presence in Wisconsin
As of 2022, approximately 287,900 immigrants call Wisconsin home, accounting for 4.9% of the state’s population. Of those, an estimated 73,900 are undocumented. They lack legal status but contribute millions of dollars to the economy …
LOUD to host Wisconsin Conference of Latino Arts and Culture
Latinos Organizing for Understanding and Development (LOUD), a statewide initiative focused on promoting collaboration between Latino arts and service organizations, artists, and the communities in which they operate, will host the Wisconsin Conference of Latino …
Roundtable on Immigrant Dairy Workers in Wisconsin
The mass migration of farmworkers means that now in Wisconsin, roughly 70% of the labor force on dairy farms is made up of workers of Latinx descent. The majority of those workers are also unauthorized, …
Navigating immigration policies following Trump’s executive orders
‘When we hear the phrase mass deportation, we know that this is going to look very different,’ Immigration Law Center attorney says…A 2024 report from the University of Wisconsin School for Workers showed that 10,000 undocumented …
Wisconsin Democrats pledge support to immigrants as new administration takes office
Workers without legal status are particularly critical to the state’s dairy industry, according to a 2023 UW-Madison School for Workers survey. “More than 10,000 undocumented” workers perform around 70% of the labor on Wisconsin’s dairy farms, …
How many undocumented people live and work in Wisconsin?
A 2023 UW-Madison School for Workers survey found that over 10,000 undocumented workers perform around 70% of the labor on Wisconsin’s dairy farms. “Without them, the whole dairy industry would collapse overnight,” the researchers concluded. Read the …