Wednesday, July 1: ICE crackdown in Milwaukee, conservation fund money runs out, Wisconsin’s post-partum Medicaid coverage takes effect, feds push work requirements for housing assistance
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“They had guns pointed at us. They didn’t ask us for our names, they didn’t ask us for an I.D. They took us violently out of the car.”
– Galo Suárez, 25, on his arrest by ICE agents in Milwaukee
Galo Suárez, who was dragged out of his car in Milwaukee by ICE along with his fiancee “in a very violent way.” His fiancee is still in detention, even though she, like Suárez, has been living in the U.S. legally with a work permit. (Photo by Isiah Holmes/Wisconsin Examiner)
As of Tuesday, Voces de la Frontera, the Milwaukee-based immigrant rights group, had corroborated 26-28 ICE detentions over the last few days in Wisconsin. The detentions have been traumatic. Voces documented four cases of excessive use of force and two cases of people who were crime victims actively going through legal proceedings when they were detained. Isiah Holmes has the details.
The Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Grant program, established in 1989 to help Wisconsin obtain and maintain its natural areas expired Tuesday. Cause of death, according to advocates, was legislative obstinance. Henry Redman reports on what happened and what’s next.
Wisconsin mothers on Medicaid will officially begin keeping coverage for a year after giving birth starting July 1, as the postpartum Medicaid extension signed into law earlier this year takes effect. Wisconsin became the 49th state in the U.S. to opt into the Medicaid extension in March, following years of gridlock in the Legislature. Baylor Spears reports.
Dozens of public housing authorities, tribes, property owners and community groups have joined a new coalition organized by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to promote work requirements and time limits for people who receive federal housing help. Robbie Sequeira of Stateline reports.
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Senate Minority Leader Diane Hesselbein, Sen. Sarah Keyeski and Rep. Jenna Jacobson wade in Lake Mendota at Gov. Nelson State Park to highlight the loss of Knowles-Nelson Stewardship program funds. (Photo by Henry Redman/Wisconsin Examiner)
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