refugees

Look at a map of Milwaukee and you'll find traces of the waves of immigration to our city: From Yankee Hill to Schlitz and Pabst and the quintessential "Polish flat."

Every year, Milwaukee welcomes refugees from across the globe, including two brothers who made a harrowing journey from Afghanistan during the Taliban takeover in 2021. Now, funding for resettling refugees in the United States is in limbo.

Ten female students at the UW-Milwaukee thought they had full scholarships. Now the Afghan evacuees are scrambling to pay for school.

Last August, about 150 students from the Asian University for Women were evacuated from Afghanistan as the Taliban took over. Eight of them are now studying at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

The head of a Milwaukee organization that resettles refugees gives us the latest on resettlement of Afghan refugees at Wisconsin's Fort McCoy and around the nation.

Reporters were given a glimpse Thursday of Afghan refugees' lives on a Wisconsin Army post, getting to see the new arrivals playing soccer with soldiers and toting groceries to the barracks where they're being housed as they wait for their new lives in America to really begin.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin and two House members toured Fort McCoy Tuesday, in part to counter safety concerns raised by Republicans.

The U.S. Army says it's preparing for hundreds or maybe a couple thousand Afghan refugees to be temporarily housed at Fort McCoy in western Wisconsin. The announcement has set off at least two Republican politicians.

Refugee High: Coming Of Age In America is an expansion of a story that journalist Elly Fishman wrote about Chicago's Sullivan High School in 2017. Over the course of three years, Fishman created relationships with Sullivan students and staff, and eventually put their experiences into words.

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