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>> A surge of immigration
and border control arrests

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in Wisconsin over the past
few weeks is part of a

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nationwide push on the part
of Homeland Security,

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resulting in the detention
of more than 10,000 people,

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according to National
Reporting in Milwaukee.

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Waukesha, the Madison area
and elsewhere in the state.

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Dozens of arrests have been
confirmed by immigrant

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rights groups and attorneys
for reaction. On this, we

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turn to Milwaukee and
Darryl Morin national

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president of Forward Latino.
And thanks very much for

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being here.
>> Thank you for asking me

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to join you this morning.
>> So what is your reaction

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to this recent surge of
detentions in Wisconsin and

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elsewhere?
>> Well, I'll tell you,

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tremendous frustration and
to a certain degree, anger.

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You know, it would be
different if they were

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going around and detaining
people who were bad doers

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in the community. But we're
continuing to see that

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operations are continuously
targeted at people, for the

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most part, who've been
trying to do everything the

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right way, who filled out
all their asylum papers,

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have been showing up to all
their court dates, etc.

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that are that came here
with TPS, only to see it

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removed from them. So it's
really been a very dark

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time for many in our
community, and we

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appreciate the support and
that we're seeing come from

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all other communities
throughout the state and

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the country, quite honestly.
>> Do you have the numbers

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of arrests in Wisconsin in
this most recent surge?

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>> Well, I know that we've
been able to confirm 39.

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Immigrations put out the
number of 57. We're still

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working to confirm that.
But 39 is what we're

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comfortable reporting at
this time.

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>> What stands out to you
as to how these recent

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arrests are physically
being carried out?

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>> Well, I'll tell you,
there's there's plenty of

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video out there to support
what I'm going to be

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sharing with you. We've
seen families, particularly

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mothers, even with infants
in the car, have their

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windows being broken, being
violently pulled out and

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thrown to the ground.
Having immigration agents

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literally holster their
weapon before they have a

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chance to do anything and
threaten their lives. It's

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been very, very scary for
many folks, both immigrant

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and citizen alike. Because
we're seeing this happen to

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people who are both
lawfully and unlawfully

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present at this time. So a
lot of concern, especially

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given what we saw in
previously up in

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Minneapolis and now with
the the shooting that's

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been ruled a homicide that
just happened down in

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Houston, there's a lot of
fear and a lot of concern.

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>> Because in your mind,
the kind of police tactics

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are are not in keeping with
general rules of, of such.

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>> Yeah. Generally, we're
used to seeing law

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enforcement officers using
rules of de-escalation. And

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immigration officials are
actually doing quite the

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opposite right now. And I
think they've actually

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realized this because what
we're seeing is instead of

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wearing vests now that that,
say, ICE or denote them as

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being immigrant officials,
they're now wearing vests

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that are now exclusively
say police. So I think

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that's a self admission
that they no longer have

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the trust and credibility
throughout our country and

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are being forced to try to
steal or borrow or take the

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trust and credibility that
people have with their

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local law enforcement
departments.

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>> How will this continue
to unfold in your mind,

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given increased funding to
Ice?

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>> Well, we know that we
had put out an alert about

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two weeks ago because we
had seen this coming. So we

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put out a community alert
on it. In fact, it just

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expired today. But we're
expecting to see, while not

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at the same levels, we're
expecting to see the

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standard operating tempo of
immigration. Actually step

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it up a little bit as we
move forward. We're now

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starting to see that they
are graduating additional

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classes of agents through
their training program.

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With the recent funding
increase that they received

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yet again, they are now Ice
is now receiving more

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funding on an annual basis
than the United States

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Marine Corps is just to
tell you that outrageous

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amount of resources that
are being thrown at this.

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So we're telling everybody,
well, we have lifted we've

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led the community alert
expire here in southeastern

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Wisconsin. It's still
important for people who

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are lawfully present, who
are U.S. citizens or who

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are at risk of separation,
really, to have an

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emergency plan in place
should you be pulled over

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or run off the road by
unidentified vehicles and

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be violently thrown out of
your vehicle and detained?

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>> Because I was just going
to ask you what someone in

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your position says to
people you advocate for in

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the midst of all of this?
>> Well, we're very

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fortunate that as a
community, we're strong of

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faith. We've had to
overcome a lot throughout

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our history. Sadly, we
thought chapters like this

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were relegated to the past.
And we're seeing them

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brought forward to the
future. So we will continue

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to persevere. And as I
mentioned, we are receiving

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calls and financial support
and volunteers from all

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different communities, many
from people who've never

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been involved in any kind
of such action. And the one

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common theme I'm hearing
from them is this isn't the

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America we grew up in. This
isn't right. How can I help?

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And that's what makes it
easier to get up every

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morning. Quite honestly.
>> We leave it there. Daryl.