Bridget Fogarty

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Bridget Fogarty |Eva Wen

A state Assembly committee held a public hearing Wednesday over a Republican-authored bill that would require sheriffs to help federal immigration officials identify those living in the U.S. without authorization and cut state funding for those who don’t. The legislation, which Gov. Tony Evers has said he will not sign, proposes cutting millions in state funding to counties whose sheriffs choose not to help with federal immigration enforcement efforts. Here's what to know.

1 month ago | jsonline.com | Bridget Fogarty |Eva Wen

A state Assembly committee held a public hearing Wednesday over a Republican-authored bill that would require sheriffs to help federal immigration officials identify those living in the U.S. without authorization and cut state funding for those who don’t. The legislation, which Gov. Tony Evers has said he will not sign, proposes cutting millions in state funding to counties whose sheriffs choose not to help with federal immigration enforcement efforts. Here's what to know.

2 months ago | jsonline.com | Sophie Carson |Sarah Volpenhein |Bridget Fogarty

Patricia Ruiz-Cantu speaks of the mother whose teenage son begged her not to go grocery shopping because he was terrified immigration agents might pick her up. With her shopping list in hand, the boy took an Uber to shop on her behalf. Then there's the Lutheran pastor, a native of El Salvador and now a U.S. citizen, who has begun carrying his U.S. passport wherever he goes: to work, to hospital visits, to the places where immigration raids are rumored to have happened.

Jan 17, 2025 | news.yahoo.com | Bridget Fogarty

Wauwatosa will receive $1 million in grant funds from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration to improve the railroad crossing at Walnut Road. A $1 million federal grant will help Wauwatosa staff determine how to turn a steep, city-owned railroad crossing near Highway 100 into a through street underneath the rail line with bike and pedestrian access in the coming years.

Jan 14, 2025 | yahoo.com | Bridget Fogarty

Almost as quickly as it was a proposed, plans a four-story apartment building in a Wauwatosa office park have been scrapped by a Milwaukee-based developer. But a firm that previously proposed a similar development at the same parking lot says it still intends to bring housing to the site. The Mandel Group took the first steps to bring 196 high-end apartments to the Milwaukee County Research Park, 720 N.