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How the Border Crisis Hit a Small Wisconsin Town

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 2/27/2024 7:31:47 PM

WHITEWATER, Wis.—The migrants began to trickle into Whitewater, a sleepy town of 15,000 an hour west of Milwaukee, toward the end of 2021. Prior to their arrival, local news and political debates generally revolved around school fundraisers or the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater's D3 athletics. Today, residents are focused on their 1,000 new neighbors, who mostly hail from Nicaragua and Venezuela and largely keep to the shadows because they lack official identification. Locals say the real number of migrants in the town could easily be double the number reflected in the police department's official statistics. As the migrant crises in big cities like Chicago and New York

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Northcross 2/27/2024 7:36:58 PM (No. 1666551)
All all the Democrat voters of Whitewater happy with this? If so, we can send more from Eagle Pass.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Mizz Fixxit 2/27/2024 8:10:12 PM (No. 1666559)
A paraphrase: “Open borders and Illegal immigration are not problems, we just need a big pile of federal money.” Liberals are predictable. They should not be so predictable.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: MissGrits 2/27/2024 10:40:17 PM (No. 1666614)
They have no issues with immigration, ILLEGAL immigration? That's the problem, not the uptick in services required. Idiots, Let them figure out their own solutions then!
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Reply 4 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter 2/28/2024 1:36:18 AM (No. 1666633)
A $400K budget deficit because they have to hire ESL teachers, overwhelmed medical facilities that aren't getting reimbursed, increased domestic violence and sexual abuse of children, a surgein fentanyl seizures, yet the folks there remain "welcoming" while the local and regional pols ask you and me for more money. Yeah, we have 1,500 here in San Diego that just got kicked onto the streets - what the shortest route to Whitewater?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Trigger2 2/28/2024 3:36:19 AM (No. 1666650)
Wisconsin just loves demonrats. So how can anyone feel sorry for this town?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: mifla 2/28/2024 5:25:10 AM (No. 1666678)
I hope Trump gets in just so he can turn off the federal spigot of cash to the sanctuary cities. Make them live with their own decisions.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: ARKfamily 2/28/2024 5:40:42 AM (No. 1666687)
From the article: ""I don't have a problem with immigration," Knight told the Washington Free Beacon. "The concern is about resources." Does this person realize that this is illegal immigration and not legal immigration? These people are allowed to skirt the legal entry system into the country and because we have leadership that wants to look the other way, it is deemed legal. This person, by leaving off one word, makes his point as if it were all legal. Yet, look at how many people are stopped and fined for driving infractions. . .
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Reply 8 - Posted by: JackBurton 2/28/2024 8:39:41 AM (No. 1666782)
FTA Law enforcement officials said last November that they had traced nearly $250,000 worth of funds back to drug cartels in just four months. In the words of one law enforcement official, the migrants perform "farm or factory labor during the day and cocaine sales at night."
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Reply 9 - Posted by: sunshinehorses 2/28/2024 9:50:58 AM (No. 1666822)
Fort Dodge, Iowa has the highest murder rate in Iowa. Population of about 25,000 and the county seat for Webster County. Any guesses as to why? Yes there is a prison there which contributes to the crime rate as families move to be closer to inmates. Also a growing hispanic population (may or may not be legal). All I know is that over the 2 years we have been going into Fort Dodge for shopping, I have gotten more and more uncomfortable being in that town and now go to other towns to shop.
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