Media ContactLisa Ramirez, Communications Director, lramirez@mylegalaid.org
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.
Legal Aid’s Minnesota Disability Law Center Legal Director Anne Robertson says Minnesota’s fraud crackdown is leaving vulnerable people without housing and support. “We don’t condone fraud,” she said, “but the impact should not be leaving folks, the most vulnerable people in our communities, literally out in the cold.”
Attorney Chad Wilson of Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid’s Minnesota Disability Law Center sheds light on the experiences of clients suddenly cut off from the Integrated Community Services program. Administered by the state of Minnesota, the program was suspended to investigate allegations of fraud. The story explores fall out from critics and impact on individuals with disabilities left to fend for themselves without ICS program supports.
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 spoke to The Minnesota Daily outlining rights of our clients and others who may get unannounced visits in place of their naturalization interviews.
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.
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