Hello Civic Media Mid-Morning listeners! Henry Redman, a staff reporter for the Wisconsin Examiner who focuses on covering Wisconsin's towns and rural areas, joins Greg to break down his reporting on how ICE’s Twin Cities office has been expanding its reach deep into rural Western Wisconsin communities (like Baldwin). He’ll explain why these smaller towns are being targeted and how the lack of a major activist presence in rural areas changes the way these federal operations actually play out on the ground.

Greg also digs into the "chilling effect" this has on local residents and the growing wedge it drives between immigrant families and local police. Henry shares what he’s heard from people living through this, highlighting a massive disconnect between the resources available in big cities versus the isolation felt in Wisconsin’s rural heartland.

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