"Dubious hype about immigrant workers, portraying them as dangerous, violent criminals, is the now-familiar backdrop to a crackdown that does not, in fact, have anything to do with fighting crime. Fewer than half of the people ICE has arrested under Trump are convicted criminals. Of those, only 7% have been convicted of violent crimes and only 5% of drug-related crimes, Tim Henderson of Stateline reports.
In Manitowoc, 'This [criminal network] narrative was pushed without any basis to try to paint a negative image of an entire community,' Christine Neumann-Ortiz of Voces de la Frontera said during the Friday press conference. Of the 24 people arrested, ICE identified one person who faced serious criminal charges. But, as Henry Redman reported, that person was not among those rounded up and was already sitting in custody during the Sept. 25 raid.
Neumann-Ortiz described seeing disturbing videos documenting ICE actions — agents barging into a home 'as if this were some kind of cartel, when it’s a working class family' and of a father who was grabbed by ICE while taking out the garbage. 'It’s disturbing. It’s very, very disturbing,' she said.
One bright spot, she said, has been the community response to 'the tragedy that we’re witnessing around the U.S. and here in Wisconsin as well.' She praised Wisconsinites’ sense of 'urgency to build community — to support each other.'”
~ Ruth Conniff
https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/10/04/escalating-ice-activity-makes-wisconsin-less-safe/
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