Good morning. 
Wednesday in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy with a high of forty-four. Sunrise is 6:53 AM and sunset 4:27 PM, for 9h 33m 41s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 42.9% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the one thousand one hundred seventh day.
Whitewater’s Parks & Rec Board meets at 5:30 PM.
On this day in 1859, Milwaukee sees its first baseball game.
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Maria Perez reports Wisconsin’s dairy industry would collapse without the work of Latino immigrants — many of them undocumented:
Reliable numbers on immigrants working in the dairy industry are hard to come by. The best known Wisconsin survey, taken more than a decade ago, estimated the hired immigrant workforce at more than 40% of the total. The best known national survey, taken five years ago for the National Milk Producers Federation, estimated it at 51%.
Talk to workers in Wisconsin, and they express little doubt immigrants account for a larger portion of the dairy industry workforce today. And they don’t just work on the biggest farms, but also on operations that grew their herd beyond what a family can handle.
With unemployment low, many farmers fill openings by passing word to Mexican laborers already on-site, and then accepting the new workers who show up without asking too many questions.
Some farmers say they haven’t encountered a U.S.-born applicant in years.
Entry-level jobs may pay $11 to $13 an hour and can include free — albeit modest — housing. The immigrants may have to work nights, milk hundreds of cows every shift, toil in the wind and snow. The job can be dangerous; not everyone makes it back to their family.
Immigrants say the jobs are a ladder to a better life; farmers say the immigrants are the only means of affordable labor. So despite the rancor that surrounds national immigration policy, the workers keep coming and the farms keep hiring.
In dairy barns across Wisconsin, farmers and workers say there is a simple truth: Without the work of Latino immigrants — many, if not most, of them undocumented — the signature industry in America’s Dairyland would collapse.
Danielle Kaeding reports AG Josh Kaul Backs Michigan’s Stance In Lawsuit To Shut Down Enbridge’s Line 5:
Three state attorneys general are supporting Michigan’s stance in its case to shut down an energy firm’s pipeline running through the Straits of Mackinac, including Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul.
In June, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel sued Enbridge Energy and asked a Michigan court to rule the operation of Line 5 under its 1953 easement agreement with the state violates the public trust doctrine. Under the public trust doctrine, states hold land or natural resources in trust for public benefit or use.
In a recent filing, three Democratic attorneys general from Wisconsin, Minnesota and California said Enbridge has no right to interfere with Michigan’s right to preserve its lands for public benefit under the public trust doctrine. They urged a Michigan court to reject claims by Enbridge that the federal government’s authority through the Pipeline Safety Act and U.S. Coast Guard supersedes state authority.
South Dakota’s ‘Meth. We’re on it,’ campaign heavily criticized: