Instructions to employees
US governor defies Trump’s immigration authority
04/27/2025 – 00:22 a.m.Reading time: 3 min.
A US governor instructs employees how they should appear towards immigration officers. Republicans speak of disabilities.
The democratic governor of Wisconsin has previously issued an order to employees who reads as a request for passive resistance when visiting ICE officials.
In the instructions of Tony Evers it says that they should initially remain calm and inform their superiors. Then the employees should ask the agent. You should determine the name and have the official certificate of service shown.
It is important to compensate for the agent’s identity and authority with the information on the ID. You should also ask for the reason for the agent’s stay at the workplace and ask for insight into the documents that justify this stay. A copy of a possible search order should be submitted. The talks with the officials are to be held in a public area of the authority.
The employees are expressly prohibited from answering questions from ICE officials, in particular not about third parties-unless there is a judicial decision. You may not grant the officers of the immigration authority access to data and documents without having spoken to the legal department of the authority beforehand – even if there is a search order. ICE officials may only stay in the public area of an authority.
Evers is not the only one with such instructions. The recommendations are similar to the guidelines that the Democratic governor of Connecticut published in January.
Republican US MP Tom Tiffany, who represents the north of Wisconsin and is considering a candidacy for the governor’s office in 2026, said that the memo amounts to “orders to order ICE to do their work”. “Wisconsin deserves something better,” wrote Tiffany to X. He copied the Attorney General Pam Bondi into his message.
Critics of the immigration authority accuse the Immigration Authority of repeatedly arresting people without a judicial decision. The most prominent example: Officials of the immigration and customs authority had no arrest warrant for the activist Mahmoud Khalil from Columbia University when they took him into custody, as shown in the case of ABC News.
The Mayor of Newark also recently complained that three employees of a restaurant were paid by ICE officials without an arrest warrant. There was a similar incident in Albemarle in North Carolina. Employees of the ICE are said to have arrested two people in civil clothing. “None of us have seen an ID or a brand, and nobody said that he has a search for search, showed a search order or identified as law enforcement officers. And one, as can be seen on the video, clearly hides his identity,” said Nicholas Reppucci, lawyer from one of the arrested.
Governor Tony Evers had also criticized the arrest of judge Hannah Dugan on platform X. “Unfortunately, in the past few months we have seen how the president and the Trump administration repeatedly used dangerous rhetoric to attack and undermine our judiciary at all levels-right down to the open disobedient towards the highest court in the country and the threat of not deciding to complain and discontinue judges who do not decide in their favor,” he wrote on X.
