Media ContactLisa Ramirez, Communications Director, lramirez@mylegalaid.org
Legal Aid Attorney Alison Griffith says clients who lawfully do everything right are still facing devastating consequences. “They’ve gotten in every line. They’ve filled out every piece of paper—and the result is that they get arrested, detained, and in many cases deported.”
Legal Aid Deputy Director Yasin Alsaidi spoke about the impact of shifting immigration policies on local communities and posed this critical question: “Are we against illegal immigration or are we against immigration?”
Jose Andres Robles was denied a bond hearing and held for more than a month before a Minneapolis judge intervened.
Legal Aid client Stephanie Stuart shared her story with KARE 11. Her experience as a single mother raising three school-age children is part of class action litigation to keep SNAP benefits coming to families like hers, struggling to make ends meet.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: (Minneapolis, Minn.) – Stephanie Stuart of Wright County rations her food to one meal a day so her three children can eat. She could easily be your neighbor and you wouldn’t know this about her. But now everyone will know because Stephanie, a client of Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid, is sharing her story in a class action lawsuit filed this week.
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.
Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid Attorneys Michelle Gonzalez, Allison Griffith and Danielle Hendrickson spoke to the Star Tribune about the unprecedented caseloads they face amid a surge in immigration arrests — leaving many immigrants without legal representation, accelerating deportations and deepening confusion in an already complex system.
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 Attorney Gary Van Winkle took the lead in successfully challenging a 1995 precedent at the Minnesota Supreme Court. Van Winkle and Managing Housing Attorney Julia Zwak explain how this secures eviction protections for renters with housing subsidies.
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