Media ContactLisa Ramirez, Communications Director, lramirez@mylegalaid.org
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 lawyer Pheng Thao says parents are signing DOPAs to allow their children to stay in the U.S., where their futures are brighter, rather than hoping another adult can fly the children out of the country for reunification.
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.
Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid Executive Director Milo Mumgaard notes that heightened immigration enforcement is creating economic ripple effects as fear keeps many residents from patronizing local businesses or seeking legal help.
With a grant from the Minnesota Department of Revenue, the Low Income Tax Clinic (LITC) of Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid is pleased to announce in 2026 it will help struggling Minnesotans with state tax issues.
Historically, state tax work by the unit was limited to cases connected to an IRS case with conditions — the cases had to stem from the same IRS tax issue and had to occur in the same year. This is no longer the case. Today, the unit’s state cases only need to fall within the project’s priority areas and do not need to be connected to a federal case.
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.
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