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Media ContactLisa Ramirez, Communications Director, lramirez@mylegalaid.org
STATEMENT (Minneapolis, Minn.) – As the end to this devastating week nears, Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid remains in a place, unimagined — helping victims on the frontlines of a federal siege. Our legal teams live and work largely in Minneapolis, but we also live and work in St. Cloud, Willmar, Duluth and Mankato, and no one’s life is untouched.
STATEMENT: (Minneapolis, Minn.) — Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid extends profound gratitude to the Advocates for Human Rights and attorneys at Berger Montague. In these crucial hours, their litigation work led to the Temporary Restraining Order issued Wednesday, Jan. 28 by U.S. District Judge John R. Tunheim. This has put a critical stop to the illegal seizure and detainment of our refugee clients.
Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid stands in solidarity with the Jan. 23, “ICE Out of Minnesota: Day of Truth and Freedom,” community-wide day of action. We share the day’s purpose, illuminating constitutional violations by ICE and demanding the end of ICE enforcement actions across Minnesota.
STATEMENT: (Minneapolis, Minn.) — As reports flood in of our refugee clients being taken by government agents, we can confirm this is indeed happening. We find these detainments to be an extraordinary effort to the claim that removing refugees will somehow combat fraud.
STATEMENT: (Minneapolis, Minn.) – Immigration attorneys at Mid-Minnesota Legal say protocols vary when a child is left behind following the ICE arrest of a parent.
Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid stands with our immigrant neighbors in the Somali community as we await official word regarding their TPS status.
Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid is urging clients, and anyone who relies on heat assistance, to apply for help through the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), even though the government shutdown is delaying energy assistance.
STATEMENT (Minneapolis, Minn): As the Department of Human Services seeks reforms to the Housing Stabilization Supports program, Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid offers these comments.
Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid celebrates the ruling from the state’s highest court, in favor of our client, as a win for renters of subsidized housing everywhere in Minnesota.
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