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Four charged in MN with illegal re-entry Four Mexican nationals found in Dane County have been indicted by a federal grand jury for illegally re-entering the United States after being deported. The four cases are unrelated. The indictments came down Wednesday in federal court in Madison. The first indictment alleges Jose Daniel Cacahua-Ruiz, 20, was found to be in the United States on May 1. He faces a maximum penalty of two years in federal prison. The Capital Times (Madison, WI)

30 arrested while picketing MN ICE office :DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUr Bloomington police on Wednesday arrested 30 people who tried to block access to a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office to protest raids and deportations. The protest was... MN judge to rule on town's enforcement effort Dodge County District Court Judge John Samson promised to make a decision 'as quickly as possible' on a pair of motions regarding the city's illegal immigration case. 'I understand the... Minnesota coalition seeks amnesty :DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU When President Obama announced last week that immigration reform would be a priority this year, many Minnesota business, labor and religious organizers decided to give him a hand. Tuesday,...

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Fed. judge dismisses claims stemming from MN raid

:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUZ A federal judge has dismissed all claims against the Department of Homeland Security over an immigration raid at the Swift & Co. meatpacking plant in Worthington. The U.S. attorney's office says Judge Joan Ericksen dismissed the claims last Friday....
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Foreigners overwhelming services of MN hospital

Minneapolis -- As in many public hospitals across the country, the largest number of foreign-born patients at Hennepin County Medical Center are Hispanic immigrants. They are in the emergency room, the maternity ward, neighborhood clinics and in a part-time clinic...
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MN churches weigh role in immigration debate

On a timeline of U.S. immigration history, the Rev. Glenn Monson, of Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Austin, pinpointed when his ancestors arrived. It was in the 1860s, as famine spread through Europe, that his family left Norway and Germany...
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