Immigration

WILLMAR — Community members are invited to join a discussion Saturday in Willmar to ask public leaders to support a policy that will allow undocumented immigrants access to driver’s licenses. The event is being hosted by ISAIAH, a faith-based Minnesota organization that supports...

This letter is in answer to Bob Enos’s letter, “Explaining my own quote.” First, I want to thank Ward 3 residents for not voting Mr. Enos into any kind of office as your argument shows that you are biased against a specific ethnic group or immigrants as a whole, do not embrace...

WILLMAR — Minutemen Civil Defense Corps member Ron Branstner of California brought his message of opposition to illegal immigration and what he says are harmful effects on small communities during a two-hour forum Thursday night at the Willmar Public Library. Branstner said during...

WILLMAR ­— California resident and former Minnesota resident Ron Branstner, a longtime activist in various Minuteman efforts, will lead a “illegal immigration forum” from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the Willmar Public Library. The event is billed as “an open forum discussion...

Somalia became a failed state in the 1980s and 1990s. It was not able to maintain order. Violence and lawlessness ruled. Armed gangs controlled the streets. Armed militias employed the strategy of “join or die.” Since then more than 84,000 Somali refugees have entered the U.S....

SAN DIEGO — With many issues, the more you study them, the more likely you are to understand them. But with the immigration debate, the closer you follow it, the more likely you are to go stark raving mad. This probably suits the Obama administration just fine. At this point,...

WASHINGTON — With immigration legislation stalled in Congress, Hispanics and Asian-Americans say getting relief from deportations is more important for many of the 11 million immigrants here illegally than creating a pathway to U.S. citizenship, a new study finds. Two polls released...

The U.S. Senate took a major step Thursday in approving a nearly 1,200-page and historic legislation that could overhaul the immigration laws and offer possible citizenship to millions living in America’s shadows. If approved in the House, this immigration legislation would be...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate is on the cusp of approving historic immigration legislation offering citizenship to millions in the U.S. illegally and spending billions of dollars to secure the border.