Tag: refugee
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Bringing California’s Groundwater Into Balance
“We may not be physically fighting, but we’re fighting over water. And it’s going to get worse.” Chong Ge Xiong shares Hutson’s concerns. A Hmong farmer and former refugee on 40 acres in West Fresno, … Read Full Article
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Counting Wisconsin: What you should know about the 2020 Census
according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Among them, according to the Census Bureau: children under the age of 5, immigrant and refugee communities, homeless people, Native Americans, Latinx, Hmong, … Read Full Article
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What’s the heart of Yia Vang’s Vinai funding request? Hmong community ownership.
But for Vang—and many in the Hmong community—the word “Vinai” means a lot more. From 1975 to 1992, Ban Vinai was a refugee camp in Thailand that housed up to 45,000 people, about 95 percent of them … Read Full Article
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Rosario: This refugee’s take on things hits the mark — and the funny bone
His father, Xia Ge Xiong, a captain in the CIA-trained and backed Hmong army, knew that his life, as well as possibly that of his kin, was in danger if the Laotian communist regime got ahold of him. Read Full Article
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Beltrami and St. Louis counties to vote on refugee resettlement
On Wednesday, as the city clerk will swear in the seven members of the St. Paul City Council at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, Yang will officially become the council’s youngest member, … Read Full Article
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Local View: Refugees, just trying to survive, highly motivated to succeed
There are a number of refugee-founded restaurants in this area. The young Hmong woman elected to the St. Paul City Council in November was born in Duluth where her family first settled. The people I … Read Full Article
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Six suspected gang members arrested in Fresno football watch party shooting that left 4 dead
“The shooting affected not only the city but also really impacted our Hmong American community,” Hall said, referring to the refugee group from Laos that aided the United States during the Vietnam War … Read Full Article
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Fashion with a message
Its small contract manufacturing facility in Maplewood is inside one of the oldest dairy barns in the state. It was launched by a Hmong refugee decades ago. “That’s the link between us,” said Cha, who … Read Full Article
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Wausau Hmong community remembers the closing of Wat Tham Krabok refugee camp
WAUSAU, Wis. (WAOW) — The Wausau Hmong American Center and the From Laos to America Museum marked the 15 anniversary of the closing of Wat Tham Krabok on Thursday. The refugee camp served as a place … Read Full Article
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Minnesota entrepreneur turns refugees’ life jackets into powerful mementos
Its small contract manufacturing facility in Maplewood is inside one of the oldest dairy barns in the state. It was launched by a Hmong refugee decades ago. “That’s the link between us,” said Cha, who … Read Full Article
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Governor Walz on refugees: ‘The inn is not full in Minnesota’
In keeping with this proud history, I offer my consent to continue refugee resettlement in the State of Minnesota.” Minnesota has the country’s largest Somali and Karen populations, the second-largest … Read Full Article
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‘The Inn Is Not Full In Minnesota’: Gov. Walz Says State Will Keep Resettling Refugees
In keeping with this proud history, I offer my consent to continue refugee resettlement in the State of Minnesota.” Minnesota has the country’s largest Somali and Karen populations and the … Read Full Article
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Governor on refugees: ‘The inn is not full in Minnesota’
In keeping with this proud history, I offer my consent to continue refugee resettlement in the State of Minnesota.” Minnesota has the country’s largest Somali and Karen populations, the second-largest … Read Full Article
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Walz, Minneapolis City Council reaffirm support of refugee resettlement
In keeping with this proud history, I offer my consent to continue refugee resettlement in the State of Minnesota.” Minnesota has the country’s largest Somali and Karen populations and the … Read Full Article
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Governor on refugees: ‘The inn is not full in Minnesota’
In keeping with this proud history, I offer my consent to continue refugee resettlement in the State of Minnesota.” Minnesota has the country’s largest Somali and Karen populations, the second-largest … Read Full Article
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The McRae Industries Story – Part 4, An Inclusive Culture
They led their families on perilous treks to refugee camps in Thailand and other countries. In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, many Lao and Hmong, a mountainous tribe with its own ethnic … Read Full Article