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Press Release Release Date: Thursday, October 17, 2019 Voces de la Frontera Calls on Public Officials to Advance Proposal to Amend SOP130 to Prevent the Milwaukee Police Department from Partnering with ICE   Voces de la Frontera calls on the Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission (FPC) at its Oct. 17, 2019 meeting to take all steps […]

Click here to support this Milwaukee family separated by ICE MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN –On Monday,  September 23, 2019, around 9:30 am, Jose De la Cruz-Espinosa was arrested by the Milwaukee Police Department (MPD) in collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Jose was with his wife and their three daughters 14, 13, and 11 years of […]

MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN – On Monday, September 23, 2019, Jose Alejandro De la Cruz- Espinosa, a Milwaukee resident, was with his wife and three young daughters inside his vehicle parked outside of his home when he was barricaded and torn from his family by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.  Two staff members from Voces de […]

    Community Leaders Demand ICE Out of Milwaukee Sixteen hundred signed postcard petitions were delivered to the Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission after a press conference calling for community trust   MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN — On Thursday, September 5, 2019, dozens of Milwaukee community members gathered for a press conference before giving public testimony and delivering […]

Frequently Asked Questions on the Proposed changes to Milwaukee Police Departments’ Policy on Immigration (SOP130) Voces de la Frontera and allied organizations propose changes to the existing Milwaukee Police Department (MPD) Standard Operating Procedure on immigration (SOP 130) to create stronger safeguards against collaboration between local law enforcement and Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE). These […]

  Milwaukee action is part of a national wave of Jewish-led “Never Again” actions to resist the Trump Administration’s campaign of terror against immigrants and refugees. Video here Photos here   MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN — On Thursday, August 1st, 22 Wisconsin Jewish leaders blockaded the garage doors of the Milwaukee Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building beginning shortly after 9 […]

The undersigned, support changes to the Milwaukee Police Department Standard Operating Procedure 130, which would create stronger safeguards to ensure public dollars for law enforcement are not used to collaborate with Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the absence of a judicial warrant. Under Trump’s xenophobic and racist war on immigrant and refugee families, it is […]

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Voces de la Frontera is organizing a statewide tour called “Defending Families, Restoring Driver’s Licenses for Immigrants” to strengthen support through Wisconsin for the restoration of access to driver’s licenses for immigrants. Come to the forum to get informed and get involved in the fight to restore driver licenses for immigrants in Wisconsin. Help us […]

MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN — On Thursday, the Supreme Court blocked the Trump Administration’s effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 US Census, rejecting the Trump Administration’s stated justification for adding the citizenship question as “contrived.” While the Court gave the Administration the opportunity to provide an adequate justification, the Administration has said that they need to […]