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Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid responded to the Star Tribune’s request for comment. “This is unprecedented and damaging,” Minnesota Disability Law Center Director Eren Sutherland said in a statement. “Many people will lose personal care to get dressed, to eat, to get out of bed, and now won’t have anyone to help.”
First, we want to recognize the significant work that went into this plan. The Disability Law Center and Olmstead Subcabinet share a commitment to the dignity, self-determination, and true inclusion for Minnesotans with disabilities. Integration alone is not enough. We need communities where people with disabilities can fully participate and thrive.
STATEMENT (Minneapolis, Minn.) — Steeped in casework, still recovering from the effects of the government’s surge in our own communities, we at Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid are taking pause, to say this: We condemn the senseless violence by ICE resulting in continued loss of life. We know this loss, too well, and we painfully, strongly lament the open disregard for the rule of law. We refuse to abandon tenets of justice that would have, should have prevented what we as a nation are again witnessing.
STATEMENT (Minneapolis, Minn.) — Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) issued an opinion
Today’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, reaffirming birthright citizenship as an enshrined constitutional promise, is enthusiastically welcomed by Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid.
STATEMENT (Minneapolis, MN) — Jose Yugar Cruz, a client of Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid has been granted temporary release from ICE custody — a move to divert him from the Democratic Republic of the Congo where death rates are climbing due to the Ebola outbreak.
STATEMENT (Minneapolis, Minn.) — We hope that Minnesota judges will follow the lead of Texas judges who are granting bond hearings, despite a similar Fifth Circuit Court opinion, because that’s the due process right people have. Pragmatically, we brace for more dismal conditions for detainees related to ICE bed capacity.
STATEMENT (Minneapolis, Minn.) — No one knows the terror, harm and impact of Operation Metro Surge better than our clients. The true measure of it ending will come from them, and from our legal teams who fight every day for justice on their behalf.
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.
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