“......In Wisconsin, Milwaukee became a sanctuary city in 2012, according to ICE. That was in Mr. Walker’s second year as governor — just after he survived a recall election.
Mr. Walker’s campaign said Wisconsin did try to cooperate on deportations and that the governor signed an agreement in 2011 to join Secure Communities, the Obama administration’s program to cull prisons and jails looking for illegal immigrants to deport.
Secure Communities, which the administration was trying to implement nationwide, helped Mr. Obama set deportation records in 2012. But immigrant rights groups put immense political pressure on the president, and he canceled the program in November. Mr. Obama now is trying to replace Secure Communities with a program that would deport far fewer illegal immigrants.”...