⚖️ Judge protects second UW student from deportation

🚧 Everybody’s Going To Be Downtown Saturday

• Between the Mifflin Street Block Party, Crazylegs Classic, and Dane County Farmers Market, expect downtown Madison to be packed with your neighbors this Saturday.
• Many downtown streets, including West Gilman, Langdon, Old University Avenue and Walnut Street, will be closed from about 9:50 a.m. till noon for Crazylegs, depending on when runners have completed each section of the course. Some bus routes will also be detoured.
• Meanwhile, around 10,000 revelers are expected to take part in the Mifflin Street Block Party, and city officials said they’ve been preparing for months. For better or worse, the party’s been a Madison tradition for decades.
• 🎧 Dig deeper: City Cast Madison executive producer Hayley Sperling and producer Jade Iseri-Ramos dish on the hectic weekend on the Friday news roundup on the podcast. They also talk about UW-Madison pushback against President Donald Trump, and one UW prof’s role in investigating a lost painting by Vincent Van Gogh. Listen in! [City of Madison, WMTV, Madison Minutes, City Cast Madison]

🏗️ New History Center Breaks Ground on Capitol Square

• An organization that digs into the past is garnering excitement for its future as the Wisconsin Historical Society broke ground Wednesday on a new History Center downtown.
• The new five-story building is located on the site of the old Wisconsin Historical Museum, with over 100,000 square feet devoted to galleries, events, and learning spaces, including immersive exhibits. It is scheduled to open in fall 2027. [News 3]

⚖️ Should a Student Get Deported Over a Speeding Ticket?

• A judge has protected a second UW-Madison international student who was scheduled to be deported just weeks before graduation. U.S. District Judge William Conley ruled that the Trump administration wrongly revoked the F-1 visa of Yue “Alison” Yang.
• Yang was scheduled for deportation apparently because of a speeding ticket she received in February. Conley said that decision was an “abuse of discretion,” and that deporting her before she graduated next month would have cost Yang $132,900 in tuition with no degree. [ 🔒 WSJ]

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