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• 25 Twin Cities eateries turn up the heat to raise money to help separated migrant families
  Most of the participating restaurants are giving 20 percent of sales to the Florence Project, a nonprofit immigrant legal service. Two restaurants plan to donate half of their sales.July 9, 2018
• Hunger, fear, desperation: What came of an ordinary ICE raid
  It had taken a decade for Brandon Tomas Tomas to establish a life in America: a wife, a steady job and five American-born children. It took 20 seconds for that life to be taken away.July 9, 2018
• ACLU: Less than half of child reunions will meet deadline
  The ACLU said late Sunday the administration provided it with a list of 102 children under 5 years old and that "appears likely that less than half will be reunited" by Tuesday's deadline.July 9, 2018
• U.S. to reunite migrant families as immigration politics boil
  Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told reporters that his department is ready to reunite children in its care with their parents, starting next Tuesday with those under age 5.July 5, 2018
• Activists arrested protesting Trump's immigration policies at Statue of Liberty
  A woman climbed to the base of the Statue of Liberty, remaining there for three hours before police brought her down. Activists earlier unfurled a banner to "Abolish I.C.E."July 5, 2018
• Four questions about the call to abolish ICE
  Some Democrats are calling for abolishing the law enforcement agency ICE. But the slogan raises more political issues than it answers.July 3, 2018
• Federal judge orders administration to end arbitrary detention of asylum-seekers
  A federal judge rules that the Trump administration may not indefinitely detain asylum-seekers who have proven a credible fear of persecution in their homelands.July 3, 2018
• Protests planned nationwide over Trump immigration policy
  More than 600 marches could draw hundreds of thousands of people across the country, from immigrant-friendly cities like Los Angeles and New York City to conservative Appalachia and Wyoming under the banner Families Belong Together. A march is planned for this afternoon in Minneapolis.June 30, 2018
• Melania Trump visits detained migrant children in Arizona
  It's the first lady's second visit to a detention center for migrant children in two weeks.June 28, 2018
• Reuniting families separated at the border proves complicated
  A volunteer in Baltimore spends her days trying to reconnect migrant children and parents who have been separated and detained. One story illustrate why it is not necessarily simple.June 28, 2018
• House rejects Republican immigration bill, ignoring Trump
  The Republican-led House resoundingly rejected a far-ranging immigration bill on Wednesday despite an eleventh-hour endorsement by President Donald Trump, as the gulf between the GOP's moderate and conservative wings proved too deep for leaders to avert an election-year display of division.June 27, 2018
• Travel ban ruling stirs fear, anguish among Minnesota Muslims
  "The Supreme Court's decision really just magnified the fear and anxieties that many people in this community have had," said Jaylani Hussein, the head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations Minnesota.June 27, 2018
• Judge bars migrant family separations, orders return of children within 30 days
  The federal court ruling in a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union also states that children under the age of 5 must be reunited with families within two weeks.June 27, 2018
• Ryan sets House vote on GOP immigration bill for Wednesday
  House Speaker Paul Ryan scheduled a long-awaited showdown vote on a broad Republican immigration bill for Wednesday, but is showing little confidence that the package will survive.June 26, 2018
• Customs and border agency halts many 'zero tolerance' detentions, citing workload
  "A much better system would be to keep families together through their immigration proceedings," Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said. "That's what the Obama administration did in 2014. That's what the president has asked Congress to help us do now."June 26, 2018

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