Wisconsin dairy farms rely heavily on undocumented immigrants, who perform over half the work on dairy farms, according to estimates. I wonder how long it will take for it to sink in that maybe these folks made a mistake in their voting for president.

“Wisconsin is home to about 70,000 undocumented immigrants, mostly from Latin America, according to estimates from the nonprofit Migration Policy Institute. These are the people who hang drywall, clean hotel rooms, wash dishes in restaurant kitchens and package the nation’s cheese.

“Determining how many of Wisconsin’s dairy workers are undocumented is almost impossible. Workers use fake papers to get jobs, farmers accept those papers without question, and the state and federal governments make little effort to get an accurate count. But a conservative estimate from a recent University of Wisconsin at Madison study puts the number of undocumented Hispanic workers on medium-to-large farms at roughly 6,200. That figure excludes the many immigrant workers on smaller farms, those with fewer than 500 cows.”

Source: https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-dairy-undocumented-immigrants-drivers-licenses