We're now ten months away from the midterm elections, and in Wisconsin, that means we also have a choice: we can keep the Republican state legislature and elect a Republican as governor, or we can follow Minnesota's lead and turn into a cesspool of Leftist lawlessness, fraud, and skyrocketing taxes.
One of the myriad Democrats running for governor is Sara Rodriguez, who is the current Lt. Governor under Tony Evers. Evers announced last summer he wouldn't be seeking reelection.
Rodriguez just announced her biggest policy platform, and it's straight out of the Tim Walz-Jacob Frey playbook. Under her governorship, Rodriguez would wage war on ICE and federal immigration enforcement, turning Wisconsin into a haven for criminal illegal aliens like Noelia Saray Martinez-Avila, a Honduran national who killed two Minnesota teens while driving drunk. Hallie Helgeson was 18. She died at the scene. Brady Heiling died five days later. He was 19.
Under her plan, Rodriguez would ban most immigration arrests.
WI gubernatorial candidate Sara Rodriguez calls for banning immigration arrests around:
— Jason Calvi (@JasonCalvi) January 12, 2026
-Courthouses
-State offices
-Hospitals/health clinics
-Daycares
-Schools/colleges
-Domestic violence shelters
-Places of worship
Exceptions:
-Judicial warrant
-Imminent threats to safety pic.twitter.com/dvCN97Yt6g
It's radical and insane.
Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez, who is running as a Democrat for governor, unleashed a sweeping attack against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) on Monday, introducing a plan that, if implemented, would endanger agents’ lives, make it harder to arrest… pic.twitter.com/N3xaUNLEgG
— Wisconsin Right Now (@wisconsin_now) January 13, 2026
It guarantees that Wisconsinites will be less safe, too.
Even Tony Evers, hardly a conservative, is on board with this plan.
Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez (who's running for gov) is proposing WI ban 'civil immigration enforcement actions' at courthouses, schools, daycares and places of worship
— Matt Smith (@mattsmith_news) January 13, 2026
Gov. Evers w/ reporters: "I think banning things will absolutely ramp up the actions of our folks in Washington.." pic.twitter.com/2MM1JLnHF6
"I think banning things will absolutely ramp up the actions of our folks in Washington D.C.," Evers said. "They don't tend to approach those things appropriately and so we're very, very vigilant. I'm not sure we have the ability to do what the Lieutenant Governor is doing or wants to do."
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers is a pro-illegal, anti-ICE leftist. That's why it is so surprising that his own lieutenant governor's anti-ICE plan is too radical even for him! pic.twitter.com/kVGbNN14U5
— Dan O'Donnell (@DanODonnellShow) January 14, 2026
"Governor Tony Evers came out today, he was asked about Rodriguez's ICE plan, and he actually distanced himself from it and dismissed it as a bit too left-wing even for him," O'Donnell said.
It's clear that Rodriguez and her team think this is a winning proposition, and it might play well in Dane and Milwaukee Counties. But President Trump won the state in 2024 and we have the ability to see the chaos and violence wrought by anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis to know that such a path is not for Wisconsin.
Even Leftist Mandela Barnes, former Lt. Governor for Evers, has softened his position on ICE and immigration enforcement since hopping into the race for governor.
There isn't a doubt in my mind that media will paint Rodriguez, who was largely quiet as Lt. Governor, as a moderate on this and every issue. She's not, of course. Like Barnes and the rest of the Democrats running for office, she's a radical Leftist who will destroy the Dairy State.
