An estimated 8.5 million illegal immigrants have crossed the southern border since

Joe Biden took office in 2021.

While most of the attention falls on the border towns of Texas and Arizona and the big cities

that are getting crushed by the population influx, there are new migrant populations showing up everywhere.

In this episode, Daily Wire Investigations editor Brent Schur speaks to a reporter who visited

Whitewater Wisconsin, a small Midwestern town that saw its population spike by 10% in just

two years due to immigration. I'm Daily Wire

editor-in-chief John Binkley with Georgia Howe. It's Sunday March 3rd and

this is an extra edition of Morning Wire.

The following is an interview between Daily Wire Investigations Editor Brent Shearer and Joe Simonson, a reporter for the Washington Free Beacon.

We're joined today by Joe Simonson, a reporter for the Washington Free Beacon,

who I actually had the pleasure of editing in a prior life.

Joe, thanks so much for coming on.

Thanks for having me, Brent.

So it's been accepted that the border crisis now extends into the whole country.

It's not just border towns, but most of the attention usually falls on big cities like New York and Chicago

that have been unraveling with the influx of migrants. But you found yourself in Whitewater,

Wisconsin, a town of just 15,000 people that recently became the home to at least a thousand illegal immigrants.

What kind of impact is that massive influx having on life in Whitewater.

Sure, yeah.

So I think you made an interesting point in your little intro there about how most of the

attention is just on cities such as Chicago and New York and Denver. of the

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