Tag: immigrant
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Voces de la Frontera marches through area on immigrant rights
JEFFERSON — Voces de la Frontera and the Wisconsin Farmers Union came through the Jefferson and Johnson Creek area last week while on a march to the state capitol to … Read Full Article: article source
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Immigrants and refugees are key to the Minneapolis economy. Here’s the data to prove it.
Research should make it easier to connect employers and workers, and help city officials improve services to immigrant and refugee communities. Read Full Article
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Minnesota Lawmakers Celebrates National Immigrant Heritage Month
Minnesota lawmakers are celebrating June as “National Immigrant Heritage” Month. State Representative Samantha Vang of Brooklyn Center is Hmong-American. Vang says, “I’m happy to be where … Read Full Article
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Local POCI Caucus honors immigrants this “National Immigrant Heritage Month”
President Joe Biden has proclaimed this “National Immigrant Heritage Month”. The state People of Color and Indigenous (POCI) Caucus says it’s a time to “address the new and continued burdens faced by … Read Full Article
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Mothers without Citizenship: Asian Immigrant Families and the Consequences of Welfare Reform
About forty thousand Hmong, including Mrs. Yang’s husband and her two brothers, were enlisted by the CIA from 1961 to 1974 as guerillas in the Vietnam War. In return, they were given rice and an … Read Full Article
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An American immigrant success story remembered
Snyder was the place in 1979 that welcomed and introduced their parents, Phia Yang and Youa, their uncle, Cha Yang, and their grandmother, May Loi, to the American lifestyle. It was their first … Read Full Article
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Community-University Health Care Center adapts to changing needs during COVID-19
CUHCC, located in the Phillips neighborhood, has had a long history of changing to meet the needs of the area’s immigrant residents and residents of color. Read Full Article
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A ‘mother figure’ not only for Hmong children, but students from all of Brooklyn Park’s immigrant communities
Educator Choua Lee Yang wanted children to be proud of their immigrant culture, be it was Hmong, East African or Latino … Read Full Article
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Hmong Farmers Are Supporting the Black Lives Matter Movement in Minnesota
When the people of Minneapolis rose up in anger over the murder of George Floyd, it exacerbated food insecurity, prompting these immigrant farmers to step up and feed their neighbors. Read Full Article
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Hmong: US Senator Introduces Bill Recognizing Legacy of Communities who Supported US Forces during Vietnam War
September 2020], U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, introduced legislation that recognizes the refugee and immigrant communities from Southeast Asia – such as … Read Full Article
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U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin Introduces Legislation Authorizing Funding for Humanitarian Assistance Programs in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia
Tags: Asia, communities, immigrant, Laos, refugee, Southeast Asia, U.S., United States, Vietnam, WashingtonBaldwin’s bill recognizes the refugee and immigrant communities who supported and defended the United States Armed Forces during conflict in Southeast Asia WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tammy … Read Full Article
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Language barriers, fear hinder immigrant contact tracing in Chicago, elsewhere
Chicago needs Polish speakers. Minneapolis needs tracers who also speak Somali, Oromo and Hmong. Houston’s Harris County is grappling with a population that includes Vietnamese, Chinese and Hindi … Read Full Article
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Language barriers, fear hinders immigrant contact tracing
Minneapolis needs tracers who also speak Somali, Oromo and Hmong, Chicago needs Polish speakers and Houston’s Harris County is grappling with a population that includes Vietnamese, Chinese and Hindi … Read Full Article
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Fear, language barriers hinder immigrant contact-tracing
Only a handful of contact tracers working to slow COVID-19 in 125 communities near Chicago speak Spanish, despite significant Hispanic populations. Churches and advocacy groups in the Houston area are … Read Full Article
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Minnesota is helping malls that serve immigrant communities survive the COVID-19 downturn. How much aid will their tenants see?
Merchants in Minnesota immigrant malls say $2.5 million in state aid should help them survive pandemic downturn … Read Full Article
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Berens and Beyond: Here’s What It Means to Be a Wisconsinite (interview with Prof. Lor)
Pao Lor, a longtime school administrator and coach in northeastern Wisconsin who’s now an education professor at UW-Green Bay, saw many of his fellow members of the state’s immigrant Hmong community … Read Full Article
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Immigrant retailers reopened shops in neighborhood malls. Customers haven’t returned
These shops present a snapshot of the thousands of immigrant-owned small businesses across Minnesota, said Jato Chabsi, a community development specialist for African Economic Development Solutions, … Read Full Article