Immigration enforcement...in Whitewater

One story that has flown beneath the radar over the past 24 hours was an illegal immigrant raid by the feds in Whitewater.

The raid happened Tuesday at Star Packaging in Whitewater.

Authorities arrested the company owner and 25 other workers.

Investigators are asking prosecutors to charge the owner with employing workers without proper documentation to work in the U.S.

It is nice to see this kind of enforcement against companies that are employing illegal immigrants. The owner of this company was taken to jail. Just the same, while the authorities raided this one company in a city of 12,000, they probably could have also raided others in that same small town. Enforcement of labor laws is an important component of enforcing immigration laws, but there is a monumental amount of work to be done on that front. If there is one, two, three companies employing illegal immigrants in a small city like Whitewater, can you imagine the number of companies doing this in larger cities like a Fond du Lac, an Eau Claire, a Green Bay, a Madison, or a Milwaukee?