How the Border Crisis Hit a Small Wisconsin Town
How the Border Crisis Hit a Small Wisconsin Town
'You have to have blinders on to not see that there have been problems'
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 receive national media attention, Whitewater residents can only laugh.
Greater Whitewater Committee president Jeffrey Knight is quick to point out that migrants have caused New York's population to grow by 2 percent, while Whitewater's population has grown by almost 10 percent in two years, almost entirely due to the southern border crisis. That would translate into more than 1.5 million new arrivals in New York."I don't have a problem with immigration," Knight told the Washington Free Beacon. "The concern is about resources."
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Wisconsin voted for Biden supposedly, so enjoy being "enriched".
How the Border Crisis Hit a Small Wisconsin Town
'You have to have blinders on to not see that there have been problems'
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 receive national media attention, Whitewater residents can only laugh.
Greater Whitewater Committee president Jeffrey Knight is quick to point out that migrants have caused New York's population to grow by 2 percent, while Whitewater's population has grown by almost 10 percent in two years, almost entirely due to the southern border crisis. That would translate into more than 1.5 million new arrivals in New York."I don't have a problem with immigration," Knight told the Washington Free Beacon. "The concern is about resources."
How the Border Crisis Hit a Small Wisconsin Town
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.
freebeacon.com
Wisconsin voted for Biden supposedly, so enjoy being "enriched".
