Immigration

The controversial check of work eligibility for state employees and large vendors doing business with the state was one of Gov. Tim Pawlenty's executive orders allowed to expire.use
Audit: Errors rife when immigrants apply for health care
County human services workers make many errors when they process applications from immigrants for public health care, allowing some to get benefits they may not be entitled to, according to an audit released Wednesday.
Immigration issue could be political windfall for Pawlenty
Gov. Pawlenty has called for cracking down on illegal immigration, and although his proposals are unlikely to get through the Legislature intact this session, he could get some political traction from the issue.
MPR News reporter Toni Randolph joined Hmong families at the Twin Cities International Airport in June 2004 as they awaited the arrival of relatives and friends planning to resettle in Minnesota from refugee camps in Thailand.
In a four-part documentary in 1999, MPR News reporter Lynette Nyman explored the ways members of St. Paul's Hmong community wrestled with issues of culture and identity, with maintaining ties to the past and seeking to thrive in modern urban America.