In other news
13 county
jails in Wisconsin now
cooperate with ICE
with sheriff's
departments either
serving warrants
or identifying
undocumented people
and then holding them
for immigration officials.
Are
these individuals criminals
or facing
criminal charges?
That's an easy question.
No.
Most of them are
not criminals.
Most of them are people
who are trying to figure out
the immigration system.
A lot of people came in
perfectly valid status
over the past four or five years
maybe 6 or 700,000 people
in the United States
who followed all the rules.
And now this administration
has changed the rules
or ended their programs.
So these
a majority of
people are folks
who have been
following all the rules
all along
and it's the government
that's changing.
Are you finding
that your clients
or the people
that you work for
are afraid
to go out to
go to their jobs?
Everybody is afraid
right now!
And this is the part
the government is
trying to make it
so difficult.
There may be 160,000
people in Wisconsin
who are not U.S. citizens.
But that goes to everywhere
from people
who have a green card
permanent resident status
a work visa
DACA authorization
and unauthorized.
How is it
that ICE is figuring out
by looking at them
walking down the street
that they might
be undocumented?
They're using systems
like racial profiling
or the accent they have.