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It's just after 9 o'clock on a clear and crisp autumn morning. Chuck Mills has pulled

into the gravel parking lot outside Mills Automotive, his towing and maintenance shop in

Whitewater, Wisconsin. Two dogs hop out from his tow truck's cab with him. One sprints across the street

to a nearby yard. The other dog trots up to two reporters, who also just pulled into the lot.

Me and On Point Senior Editor Dory Shimer.

We pass the dog's sniff test, and that's what probably helped us pass Chuck's test too.

He gestures to us to come inside.

The first thing I notice is a sign on the wall behind Chuck's right shoulder.

It reads, God is great, beer is good, people are crazy.

Faith just gives you a conscience, And my church is the best church.

Chuck is also resourceful. I'd forgotten the microphone stand in the car.

So he pulls a large decorative conch shell to the middle of his desk.

The shell's pink spikes cradle the mic perfectly. So we should be

recording now. Okay. And then, this resourceful and welcoming man begins to tell us the story of how

a few years ago he was anything but welcoming when large numbers of Central American migrants began moving into his city.

I was leading the crowd. You're going to turn us into a sanctuary city. You got to get to stop this.

You know, I screamed as far right as I possibly could.

This is On Point. I'm Megna Chakrabardi. Welcome to the latest episode in our special collaboration with ProPublica, the independent non-profit newsroom.

Whitewater, Wisconsin is about an hour west of Milwaukee.

The city of 15,000 is best known as the home of the University of Wisconsin Whitewater.

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