Andrew Becker
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How Trump is expanding the government’s secret deportation weapon
The move has gotten less attention than raids and the border fence, but it has the potential to radically change immigration enforcement nationwide. → Read More
DOJ sets deadline for jurisdictions to prove they’re not sanctuaries
The latest deadline sets up yet another showdown between the Trump administration and local authorities over immigration enforcement. → Read More
4 contractors named to build border wall prototypes
President Donald Trump’s border wall is coming a little bit closer to reality, as U.S. Customs and Border Protection announces its chosen contractors. → Read More
Trump Impacts Dairy Farms, Milwaukee Police
Crackdown on illegal immigrants, “sanctuary cities” may force changes in county and state. → Read More
No Sanctuary, Fewer Farmhands: Coping With Trump Agenda In America’s Dairyland
As the nation struggles to bridge divides along political, economic and cultural lines, the immigration debate pits the federal government against some states, counties and cities. → Read More
Trump agenda in Dairyland means fewer farmhands
Along a desolate country road in northeastern Wisconsin, Manuel Estrada speeds toward work in his rumbling silver Ford SUV. He’s running late for his predawn shift. And he’s worried. → Read More
No sanctuary, fewer farmhands: Coping with the Trump agenda in America’s Dairyland
In Milwaukee County, the debate over ‘sanctuary cities’ continues, while in rural Wisconsin, informal networks form to help immigrants avoid deportation → Read More
No sanctuary, fewer farmhands: How Dairyland suffers under Trump agenda
Wisconsin farmers say the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is making it harder to find workers for one of the state’s largest industries and the core of its Cheesehead identity, dairy p… → Read More
Milwaukee to feds: We follow immigration law
With a looming deadline to prove cooperation with U.S. immigration agents, at least one county has told the Trump administration that it follows the law – despite little guidance on how officials a… → Read More
Feds hunt down mystery landowners in bid to build border wall
The federal government has spent a decade chasing a meandering paper trail, with researchers combing through yellowed government files, testing the faded memories of neighbors and perusing the loca… → Read More
Nearly 600,000 immigration cases clog courts, study finds
Racked with a backlog approaching 600,000 cases, the nation’s 58 immigration courts over the last decade have taken longer to rule on deportations, asylum claims and other matters despite hiring mo… → Read More
These border bids are subtle resistance to Trump’s wall
Cacti and solar panels: Quiet strategies for slowing down the bidding process for a border wall. → Read More
Bids to design Trump’s wall will have to wait, again
The Trump administration has pushed back the date for when U.S. Customs and Border Protection will start accepting design proposals for a border wall, with no firm date in sight, according to a fed… → Read More
The deadliest route to the American dream
As the Trump administration moves forward with the president’s promised U.S.-Mexico border wall, questions persist about the effectiveness of immigration enforcement that has forced migrants into i… → Read More
The Wall: Explore the US-Mexico Border Fence
There are 700 miles of fence along the U.S.-Mexico border. → Read More
2-hour lines at the airport? Brutal – and a security risk, experts say
Embarrassed by exposed security lapses and allegations of misconduct, the TSA now faces mounting pressure from airlines for security delays plaguing airports across the country. → Read More
Besieged by misconduct, TSA sows culture of dysfunction and distrust
Internal dysfunction, distraction and distrust have racked the Transportation Security Administration’s senior ranks for years. Current and former officials say an unhealthy culture has been … → Read More
Air marshals’ flight schedules rearranged for trysts, employees say
Federal air marshals assigned to protect commercial flights across the U.S. were furtively pulled from their assigned flights so they could meet for sexual trysts, get better routes or travel to ci… → Read More
Border agency accused of political maneuvering after pulling report
The U.S. Border Patrol's annual report had some startling apprehension statistics, but the report was taken down hours after it was posted online last month, leading some to wonder if the midterm elections played a part in the decision. → Read More
Lawmaker calls for new investigations into border agent fatal shootings
U.S. Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard’s push to examine Customs and Border Protection’s use of force follows report detailing 2010 case where a Border Patrol agent shot a drug smuggler in the back. → Read More