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Speaking in small-town Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, where a noncitizen is accused of violently attacking a mother and her daughter, former President Donald Trump vowed to end sanctuary cities and "liberate Wisconsin from this mass migrant invasion" of murderers, rapists, and other illegal immigrant criminals. "On November 15, you have to vote for Trump because we’re not going to let it happen," Trump said, standing next to Congressman Derrick Van Orden and Patty Morin. An illegal immigrant is accused of murdering Morin's daughter Rachel in a Maryland park while she was jogging, and she implored Wisconsin voters to vote for Trump. "I really do believe he's going to close our borders," she said, describing her daughter as being "the American mom. She took care of her kids. She worked hard. And because of the open border, her life was taken away." Every day until the election, Wisconsin Right Now has been reporting on a different c

In one of the sickest criminal complaints you could ever read, Honduran citizen WILLIAMS J A MONGE is accused of repeatedly raping a 6-year-old girl in Fitchburg, Wisconsin, leaving her bloodied and in so much pain that she “felt like she was dying/going to die." There is an ICE detainer on him in the Dane County Jail. Each day, from Sept. 25 through the presidential election, we tell you about a non-citizen currently in a Wisconsin jail who is accused of committing a horrific crime. ICE placed immigration detainers on each of them. We are highlighting a range of serious crimes . ICE detainers require ICE to demonstrate that it has determined “that probable cause exists that the subject is a removable alien.” The media tends to censor illegal immigrant crimes. We would note that the Dane County Jail does not honor all ICE detainers (but does honor some) and is listed as a noncooperative jurisdiction by ICE. Right now, the case of a non-citizen Venezuelan gang member a

A fuller timeline in the case of Alejandro Coronel-Zarate raises serious questions about Madison and Minneapolis police. Since the alleged Venezuelan gang member crossed the border in 2023, he's left a trail of abused females in his wake. Why didn't anyone tell ICE? A Minnesota jail took alleged Tren de Aragua Venezuelan gang member Alejandro Coronel-Zarate into custody for almost three days but freed him into the community even though Madison police had already established probable cause that the noncitizen choked, beat, and threatened to burn and kill a terrified Madison woman, new records obtained by Wisconsin Right Now show. The Hennepin County Sheriff's Department - which has a "sanctuary" policy of not cooperating with ICE and is located in a sanctuary county - released Coronel-Zarate, 26, of Venezuela, on Nov. 20, 2023, even though court records show that Madison police had already obtained the key evidence that was eventually used to issue felony

More than 13,000 non-citizens convicted of murder are currently in the United States, ICE confirmed in a September 25, 2024, letter to a U.S. Congressman. The letter also reveals the scope of non-citizen criminality in the U.S., at least those people identified by ICE. According to ICE, as of July 21, 2024, " there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE’s national docket which includes those detained by ICE and on the agency’s non-detained docket." Of those, 435,719 are convicted criminals, and 226,847 have pending criminal charges, he wrote. The report comes on the heels of Wisconsin Right Now's new series, which is profiling a non-citizen accused of a serious crime in the battleground state every day until the election. Our first stories profiled an accused rapist , child molester , and attempted murderer. The killers are just one category on the ICE list. ICE says in the letter that it has identified the following noncitizen criminals:

NELSON W MIJANGO SANTOS is accused of partially “disemboweling” a man with a silver folding knife in a Madison parking lot after telling him, “Do you want to die?” and “Do you want to see the devil with me?”  The victim’s intestines were hanging out of his stomach. Santos then led police on a dangerous pursuit that ended when he produced a possibly fake firearm that he pointed at officers and a machete-like sword, stabbing himself repeatedly after demanding that officers shoot him, the complaint says. He is being held in the Dane County Jail on an ICE  immigration hold. At the time of the stabbing, he was out on two $500 signature bonds for repeat drunk driving and operating after revocation in Dane County. Each day, from Sept. 25 through the presidential election, we tell you about a non-citizen currently in a Wisconsin jail who is accused of committing a horrific crime. ICE placed immigration detainers on each of them. We are highlighting a range of serious crimes . Ri

Fidel Martinez-Cruz is accused of sexually assaulting a woman he didn't know in a Hyatt hotel sauna in Green Bay, Wisconsin, as well as a teenage girl in a second attack. ICE has placed an immigration detainer on him. Each day, from Sept. 25 through the presidential election, we tell you about a non-citizen currently in a Wisconsin jail who is accused of committing a horrific crime. ICE placed immigration detainers on each of them. We are highlighting a range of serious crimes; the media tends to censor crimes committed by illegal immigrants. Right now, the case of a non-citizen Venezuelan gang member accused of sexually assaulting a teen in Prairie Du Chien has grabbed the public's attention. It's not an outlier. Real victims, communities, and taxpayers are paying the price of weak Biden/Harris border policies, which are abetted by politicians like U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin. Every state is a border state. FILE #2 The Defendant: Fidel Martinez-Cruz [caption

Fidel Martinez-Cruz is accused of sexually assaulting a woman he didn't know in a Hyatt hotel sauna in Green Bay, Wisconsin, as well as a teenage girl in a second attack. ICE has placed an immigration detainer on him. Each day, from Sept. 25 through the presidential election, we tell you about a non-citizen currently in a Wisconsin jail who is accused of committing a horrific crime. ICE placed immigration detainers on each of them. We are highlighting a range of serious crimes; the media tends to censor crimes committed by illegal immigrants. Right now, the case of a non-citizen Venezuelan gang member accused of sexually assaulting a teen in Prairie Du Chien has grabbed the public's attention. It's not an outlier. Real victims, communities, and taxpayers are paying the price of weak Biden/Harris border policies, which are abetted by politicians like U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin. Every state is a border state. FILE #2 The Defendant: Fidel Martinez-Cruz [caption