Noria Doyle, Author at Milwaukee Independent

Why the unchecked power and tactics of ICE under Trump have earned comparisons to secret police

Posted by Noria Doyle | Apr 16, 2025

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is not a secret police force, not yet. But recent actions taken by ICE under Donald Trump’s regime raise urgent and unavoidable parallels. In just the span of two weeks, ICE unlawfully deported a Maryland father with legal protection from removal and detained a Turkish Fulbright scholar without due process. Both actions undermine judicial authority, sidestep legal protections, and expose the agency’s increasing willingness to act as an unaccountable enforcement arm of the executive. The Gestapo, the official secret police of Nazi Germany, did not begin as an omnipotent terror machine. It evolved...

First Amendment violation: U.S. immigration policies are seen as Trump’s attack on Catholic identity

Posted by Noria Doyle | Apr 14, 2025

On a hill in the Tepeyac neighborhood of northern Mexico City, the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe stands as one of the most powerful religious and cultural symbols in the Western Hemisphere. Every December 12, millions of pilgrims flood the sprawling complex, some walking for days, others arriving on their knees, all to honor the Virgin of Guadalupe — an Indigenous apparition of Mary that has defined Mexican Catholicism for nearly 500 years. The numbers are staggering, up to 20 million people visit the basilica each year, with as many as 5 million arriving during a single week...

Urban-Rural Divide: How Milwaukee’s role as the economic engine of Wisconsin fuels resentment

Posted by Noria Doyle | Mar 27, 2025

Milwaukee, the largest city in Wisconsin, has long served as a lightning rod for political battles in the state Capitol. From heated debates over crime rates to disputes about tax revenues and resource allocation, the city often becomes the scapegoat for a wide range of problems that state leaders attribute to urban mismanagement. Meanwhile, policymakers from rural areas campaign on promises to rein in Milwaukee’s influence, painting the city as a hotbed of dysfunction that drains resources from other parts of the state. This approach has stoked a growing sense of division between urban and rural constituencies, even though...