How one Minnesota family is managing life after deportation • Minnesota Reformer

These days, Blanca Lara feels like crying most of the time.  She struggles to sleep without her husband beside her. Her sons, 4 and 2, spend most of the day in front of the TV in their Burnsville apartment, glued to YouTube videos of men constructing houses in the jungle. In the kitchen, 42-year-old Lara […]

A Father's Plea from Gaza

Over 3,500 people were detained during Operation Metro Surge. Here's where they went. • Minnesota Reformer

Most immigrants arrested in Operation Metro Surge were sent to Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas, after being detained at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minnesota. Nearly half of them were eventually deported, mostly to Mexico and Ecuador. Only two people were deported to Somalia, according to the data, even though the […]