A building owned by Milwaukee School of Engineering and rented by the Department of Homeland Security to serve as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office is located at 310 E. Knapp St. in Milwaukee. The building is seen in downtown Milwaukee on Oct. 28, 2025. (Paul Kiefer / Wisconsin Watch)

A Board of Immigration Appeals decision makes it easier for federal officials to toss thousands of asylum cases and send applicants to a ‘third country’ where they have never lived. But the mechanism is being used inconsistently.

By Paul Kiefer

Wisconsin Watch

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Milwaukee immigration attorney Anthony Locke spent the first weekend in November

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