Wisconsin Students Protest Law Enforcement

(Madison, Wisconsin) Since Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney reports illegal alien detainees to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), University of Wisconsin students protested last night.

About 75 members of Student Progressive Dane, the Campus Antiwar Network, the Black Student Union and the Multicultural Student Coalition participated.

The protestors marched up State Street to the Madison City-County Building, where members of Progressive Dane were presenting an amendment to the county budget that would deny the sheriff’s department’s request for increased funds and divert the funds into area workers’ rights programs.

Despite the efforts of Progressive Dane and its supporters, the amendment did not pass and the sheriff’s department received its requested funding for 2009.

Student Progressive Dane member Adam Porton said Sheriff Mahoney had "gone rogue" and his policies targeted illegal undocumented immigrants for intimidation.

Notably, not once in the entire linked report of the protest march is the word "illegal" used.

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