Immigration
Now showing online: Our film on rising immigration tensions in America’s Dairyland
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‘Los Lecheros’ (Dairy Farmers) played at 25 film festivals, bringing immigrant labor on dairies out of the shadows.
Immigration
As Trump disparages immigrants, Midwest dairy farmers build bridges to Mexico
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The Puentes/Bridges program is a small nonprofit that organizes annual trips to Mexico to bridge the cultural gap between farmers and immigrant dairy workers — and the families they left behind.
Immigration
Asian restaurants and Chicago employment agencies accused of exploiting Latino workers in Midwest
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The story, produced in collaboration with the Chicago Sun-Times, explores the practices of Chicago labor agencies that provide Latino workers to Asian restaurants across the Midwest, including in Wisconsin, under what the Illinois attorney general charges are illegal and exploitative conditions.
Immigration
How undocumented immigrants became the backbone of dairies — and how to keep the milk flowing in America’s Dairyland
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Farmers, experts say reliance on immigrant workers, many of them in the U.S. illegally, will continue unless dairies — and Congress — make significant changes.
State of Change: Water, Food And The Future Of Wisconsin
America’s Dairyland and Trump in the rearview mirror as workers return to Mexico
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The Hernandez family and other dairy workers are heading back to Mexico amid hostile rhetoric and rising immigration arrests in the Midwest and nationwide.
State of Change: Water, Food And The Future Of Wisconsin
Under Trump, Wisconsin dairies struggle to keep immigrant workers
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Dairy farmers raise wages to attract and keep Mexican and Central American employees. Workers cite hostility and heightened enforcement.
Immigration
A Syrian family settles in Wisconsin, just before U.S. refugee pipeline closes
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Some worry about President Trump’s immigration policies; local officials assure immigrants they will not be targeted.
agribusiness
Slaughterhouses across the country: A collaborative map
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The Center helped Harvest Public Media map meat packers nationwide for a Harvest series, “In the Shadows of the Slaughterhouses.”
Immigration
Hispanic immigrants help rural county stave off population dip
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Dairy farmer Jeremy Meissner and farm manager Huron Mireles are part of the reason Clark County’s population is growing while nearby counties’ levels are declining. Part three of three in the Center’s Rural Slide series.
Government
Wisconsin officials strengthen fight against human trafficking
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This week, about 300 Wisconsin law enforcement officials received training on how to identify cases of human trafficking — which often are not spotted because victims are fearful to speak out.
Immigration
Video: Samuel Durand’s story
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Haitian immigrant Samuel Durand, 31, was deported to Haiti after living in Chicago for 17 years. He was jailed for three days upon his arrival.
health
In Haiti, U.S. deportees face illegal detentions and grave health risks
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The United States this year has deported more than 250 Haitians, half of whom were jailed without charges in facilities so filthy they pose life-threatening health risks. Some Haitians faced lengthy confinement in U.S. immigration facilities before the deportations. An investigation by the nonprofit Florida Center for Investigative Reporting found evidence that the Obama administration has not followed its own policy of seeking alternatives to deportation when there are serious medical and humanitarian concerns.