Recent immigrants to Wisconsin primarily came from five Latin American countries
Immigrants from Mexico and Nicaragua made up more than half of all new arrivals in Wisconsin after 2015. The number of Nicaraguans with new cases in immigration court rose sharply during and after the country's 2021 presidential election. The largest groups of non-Latin American immigrants with Wisconsin addresses in the immigration court system came from India and Vietnam.
A stacked area graph illustrating the countries of origin of new undocumented immigrants to Wisconsin by month and year from 2015 to July 2025. Overall arrivals peaked in late 2023, but arrivals from Nicaragua also surged in the winter of 2021-2022 and in the second half of 2024. Honduras, Venezuela and Colombia were also among the top five sources of recent immigrants to Wisconsin.
