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Immigration

• Finally, Minnesota's Ethiopians feel free to visit their homeland
  A new prime minister and relaxed attitudes have eased fears of persecution or worse.September 12, 2018
• As deportation wheels grind, Augsburg prof worries, waits
  Mzenga Wanyama says his story highlights systemic issues faced by many other immigrants seeking citizenship or asylum in the U.S. While he's received lots of help and attention, it's still not clear to him where he's headed.September 10, 2018
• U.S. plans to sidestep limits on detaining immigrant children
  The Trump administration said Thursday it plans to circumvent a longstanding court agreement that governs how children are treated in immigration custody, in part to detain families longer as a way to deter migrants from crossing the Southwestern border illegally.September 6, 2018
• Parents were 'coerced' to waive reunification rights with children, complaint says
  Lawyers for immigrants filed a complaint on Thursday with Homeland Security. They contend that parents, amid cruel treatment, did not understand the forms they were being forced to sign.August 24, 2018
• When the U.S. government tried to replace migrant farmworkers with high schoolers
  In 1964, a program that brought migrant Mexican laborers to the U.S. ended. So the U.S. recruited American students to pick crops instead. When they saw their living conditions, strikes ensued.August 23, 2018
• Trump administration moves to penalize immigrants for using government benefits
  The idea has already sparked warnings about consequences for immigrants and the nation's health care system.August 20, 2018
• Suit says sheriff shouldn't hold inmates at ICE request
  ACLU says Nobles County deprives immigrants of their rights by detaining them without legal reason.August 17, 2018
• Under deadline, government scrambles to reunite migrant families
  The immigration bureaucracy on the border is a world of courtrooms and jail cells, officers and gray-suited guards. But no one has seen anything quite like the current effort to reunite families.July 26, 2018
• Government unable to track hundreds of parents it separated from their children
  Officials said 1,012 parents and children separated at the border have already been reunited. But up to 463 parents may have been deported or have voluntarily left without their children.July 25, 2018
• Lawsuit says migrants were subjected to dirty detention facilities, bad food and water
  In interviews that appear in the suit filed by the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, detainees also reported not being allowed to shower for days and sleeping in overcrowded rooms.July 18, 2018
• Poll: Where you watch TV news predicts your feelings on immigration
  On some questions, people who get their TV news primarily from Fox News or CNN are even further apart than Republicans and Democrats. Viewers of the other big TV networks are somewhere in between.July 16, 2018
• Majority of youngest migrants reunited with parents, Trump administration says
  Out of 103 children under age 5, officials say 57 have been returned to their parents and that the rest are ineligible. But it's up to a judge to decide whether they've complied with the court order.July 12, 2018
• Government misses migrant family reunification deadline
  A federal judge is allowing more time to return all children under 5 who were separated from their parents at the border.July 11, 2018
• Judge rejects Trump administration's bid to detain migrant children indefinitely
  The Justice Department had requested changes to a settlement that bars the detention of children for more than 20 days. But a judge dismissed the move as a "cynical attempt" to shift responsibility.July 10, 2018
• Dozens of immigrant children will be reunited with parents
  A government lawyer said Monday at least 54 children under the age of 5 would join their parents by a court-ordered deadline, only about half the 100 or so children covered by the order. The Trump administration was working on final background checks for another five children ahead of Tuesday's deadline.July 10, 2018

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