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Minn. companies pool funds to help small businesses amidst immigration enforcement surge

Minn. companies pool funds to help small businesses amidst immigration enforcement surge

A couple dozen Minnesota companies have contributed about $4 million to a grant fund to support small businesses in the state as they navigate the challenges of meeting payroll and paying rent amidst the immigration enforcement surge.
by Harshawn Ratanpal

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Annual count of homeless people in Fargo-Moorhead is underway, Wednesday and Thursday

Annual count of homeless people in Fargo-Moorhead is underway, Wednesday and Thursday

Across Minnesota, nonprofits that provide support and services to people who are unhoused are teaming up with local governments to count the number of homeless people living in various regions of the state. In the Fargo-Moorhead area, teams led by the Fargo Moorhead Coalition to End Homelessness will be fanning out Thursday to look for people who are living in their cars, in tents, under bridges and in outbuildings such as sheds and fish houses.
by Noah Bloch

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem faces rising calls for her firing or impeachment

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem faces rising calls for her firing or impeachment

A groundswell of voices have come to the same conclusion: Kristi Noem must go. Democratic Party leaders, top advocacy organizations and even some of the most centrist lawmakers in Congress are calling for the Homeland Security secretary to step aside after the shooting deaths in Minneapolis of two people who protested deportation policy.
by The Associated Press

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A Minneapolis musician finds a song in childhood memories

A Minneapolis musician finds a song in childhood memories

A Minneapolis musician reflects on how childhood car rides with his mother shaped a song he later wrote while grieving her death.
by Anika Besst

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Internal review contradicts White House narrative of Pretti’s death

Internal review contradicts White House narrative of Pretti’s death

The preliminary assessment from Customs and Border Protection makes no mention of Alex Pretti attacking officers or threatening them with a weapon — as the administration first described the incident.
by Ximena Bustillo

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‘ICE conveyor belt’ illegally detaining, moving Minnesota children to Texas faster than courts can respond

‘ICE conveyor belt’ illegally detaining, moving Minnesota children to Texas faster than courts can respond

ICE is pulling Minnesota immigrant families with legal status out of their driveways, homes and school commutes and sending them to Texas within hours — in at least two cases against a judge’s order. Lawyers say the practice allows ICE to evade the law.
by Elizabeth Shockman

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