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    August 15, 2017
    Letter: An invitation to set aside hate
    My friends and I started a gardening program for minority youth in Willmar where they learn how to grow fresh food and run their own business; creating a sense of ownership in their community. A major part of the program is selling the goods at local farmers markets, which until...
    opinion/lettersAugust 15, 2017 - 9:10pm
    August 11, 2017
    U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue gestures during a news conference with his Mexican counterpart Jose Calzada in Merida, Mexico, July 28, 2017. Lorenzo Hernandez / Reuters
    Capitol Chatter: Consumer prices could rise if farms lack workers
    ST. PAUL — Vegetables are rotting in California because farmers cannot find enough workers to harvest them. "I need more Mexicans like...
    NewsAugust 11, 2017 - 1:59pm
    A family that said they are from Haiti walks to the US-Canada border from Roxham Road in Champlain, New York, U.S. August 11, 2017. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi
    Unfazed by uncertainty, asylum seekers still streaming into Canada from U.S.
    CHAMPLAIN, N.Y. - Asylum seekers, mainly from Haiti, clambering over a gully from upstate New York into Canada on Friday were undeterred by the...
    NewsAugust 11, 2017 - 12:40pm
    August 2, 2017
    U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an announcement on immigration reform in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., August 2, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
    Trump, GOP senators introduce bill to slash legal immigration in half over 10 years
    WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Wednesday endorsed a new bill in the Senate aimed at slashing legal immigration levels in half over a...
    NewsAugust 2, 2017 - 7:39pm
    August 1, 2017
    Letter: Angry white men built this nation
    I rarely respond to a critique of one of my letters because I too enjoy them. They don't happen often but in this instance I resent the unjust...
    opinion/lettersAugust 1, 2017 - 11:33pm
    July 26, 2017
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    Woman who threatened to 'kill all of ya' Somali Americans will be fired
    FARGO — A white woman from Mapleton, N.D., who was recorded Tuesday, July 25, threatening a group of three Muslim women in the Walmart parking...
    NewsJuly 26, 2017 - 1:04pm
    June 29, 2017
    Protesters hold signs against U.S. President Donald Trump's limited travel ban, approved by the U.S. Supreme Court, in New York City, U.S., June 29, 2017. REUTERS/Joe Penney
    Trump's new travel ban requires you to prove a close relationship. Grandpas didn't make the cut.
    The Supreme Court ruled that a limited version of President Donald Trump's original travel ban could go into effect until it considers the case...
    NewsJune 29, 2017 - 9:11pm
    An international passenger arrives at Washington Dulles International Airport after the U.S. Supreme Court granted parts of the Trump administration's emergency request to put its travel ban into effect later in the week pending further judicial review, in Dulles, Virginia, U.S.,on June 26, 2017. REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan/File Photo
    Criteria for visa applicants from Muslim nations includes close family, excludes grandparents
    WASHINGTON - Visa applicants from six Muslim-majority countries must have a close U.S. family relationship or formal ties to a U.S. entity to...
    NewsJune 29, 2017 - 8:25am
    June 26, 2017
    U.S. Supreme Court is seen in Washington, U.S., October 3, 2016. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/File Photo
    In victory for Trump, U.S. Supreme Court revives his travel ban
    WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to President Donald Trump by reviving parts of his travel ban on people from six...
    NewsJune 26, 2017 - 1:12pm
    June 24, 2017
    Immigration attorneys describe surge in deportations under Trump
    GRAND FORKS — For Grand Forks' single immigration law firm, business is growing and changing under President Donald Trump. New executive orders made by the president led to a 38 percent increase in the number of people detained by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement in the...
    NewsJune 24, 2017 - 4:14pm
    June 22, 2017
    Protesters rally outside the federal court just before a hearing to consider a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of Iraqi nationals facing deportation, in Detroit, Michigan on June 21, 2017. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook
    Judge in Michigan blocks deportation of 100 Iraqis
    A U.S. judge on Thursday, June 22, temporarily blocked the deportation of about 100 Iraqi nationals rounded up in Michigan in recent weeks who...
    NewsJune 22, 2017 - 9:42pm
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    Back in campaign mode, Trump hits on immigration and a border wall
    CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Surrounded by thousands of supporters at a raucous rally, President Donald Trump on Wednesday pledged to crack down on immigration...
    NewsJune 22, 2017 - 7:55am
    June 17, 2017
    Tribune file photo Actress Alex Kingston is shown during filming for "Sweet Land'' near Montevideo in 2004.
    'Sweet Land the Musical': Rural debut is tonight where movie was made
    DAWSON — The immigrant story belongs to all of America, but western Minnesota has a special place in its telling in Ali Selim's movie "Sweet...
    Life/extraJune 17, 2017 - 7:47am
    June 12, 2017
    International travelers arrive at Logan airport following President Donald Trump's executive order travel ban in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. February 3, 2017. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
    Another appeals court rules against Trump's revised travel ban
    A second U.S. appeals court on Monday ruled against President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban on people entering the United States from six...
    NewsJune 12, 2017 - 12:43pm
    June 5, 2017
    Reinhardt Weygandt has brought a piece of South Africa to his southcentral North Dakota farm: Dorper sheep. Jenny Schlecht / Forum News Service
    Hired help: North Dakota farms find labor in far-off lands
    NAPOLEON, N.D. — In the area of South Africa where Reinhardt Weygandt grew up, farming gets done by hand. Few farmers have tractors, and...
    NewsJune 5, 2017 - 7:00am
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