How small wisconin community is responding to a recent migrant surge

Since 2022

8000 to 1000 migrants from central and south America have come to whitewater Wisconsin

How to aid children

migrant cause an influx of students and school districts need more funding

Wisconsin surplus

3 billion buget surplus

Kristine Zabllos and Kay Robers co-founders

Community space provides bedding, furniture, food for free

Problem

fidnign job, speaking a new language, driving

Drivers license

Undocumented migrant are not allowed to obtain a drivers license in Wisconsin

Safety issue

People first time driving in the snow; taxi only available from 7:30 until 5

allowing for people to ttake written test and drivng test would be safer

20 states allow undocumented immigrants to obtain a drivers license

Poor town that has limited resources and not enough shared revenue from the state

Republican senator ron johnson blamed the flood of migrants on the Biden Adminsitration

Immirgrants advocated worried the new arrival will become political scapegoats