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Inaugural Wisconsin Conference on Latino Arts and Culture highlights a range of electric artists, performers, speakers and scholars

Posted on May 9, 2025

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 …

Posted in School for Workers in the newsTagged Armando Ibarra, In the news

May Day with Armando Ibarra

Posted on May 1, 2025

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 …

Posted in School for Workers in the newsTagged Armando Ibarra, In the news

VOCES Panel Discusses Campus Response to ICE, Visa Revocations

Posted on April 10, 2025

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 …

Posted in School for Workers in the newsTagged Armando Ibarra, In the news

While Trump deports immigrants, this Wisconsin farm can’t run without them

Posted on April 3, 2025

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 …

Posted in School for Workers in the newsTagged Alexia Kulwiec, Armando Ibarra, In the news

Undocumented workers by the numbers: The contributions and economic impact of their presence in Wisconsin

Posted on April 1, 2025

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 …

Posted in School for Workers in the newsTagged Alexia Kulwiec, Armando Ibarra, In the news

LOUD to host Wisconsin Conference of Latino Arts and Culture

Posted on March 17, 2025

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 …

Posted in School for Workers in the newsTagged Armando Ibarra, In the news

Roundtable on Immigrant Dairy Workers in Wisconsin

Posted on February 25, 2025

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, …

Posted in School for Workers in the newsTagged Armando Ibarra, In the news

Navigating immigration policies following Trump’s executive orders

Posted on February 4, 2025

‘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 …

Posted in School for Workers in the newsTagged Alexia Kulwiec, Armando Ibarra, In the news

Wisconsin Democrats pledge support to immigrants as new administration takes office

Posted on January 20, 2025

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, …

Posted in School for Workers in the newsTagged Alexia Kulwiec, Armando Ibarra, In the news

How many undocumented people live and work in Wisconsin?

Posted on January 16, 2025

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 …

Posted in School for Workers in the newsTagged Alexia Kulwiec, Armando Ibarra, In the news
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