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2025 Report: New Americans Drive Minnesota’s Population Growth and Labor Force

In many counties, particularly outside the Twin Cities metro, immigration has been the difference between growth and decline.

COLUMN: Centering the Most Impacted

How do we continually reimagine traditional processes to center leadership so the voices of those most impacted are providing leadership, not simply input?

Katie Chin: Honoring Her Mother’s Legacy While Paving Her Own

“My mother seemed immortal,” Chin narrates in her show. “A kitchen warrior, who conquered every hardship with grace and determination, always at the ready to stir fry in case of emergency.”

Q&A With Rose McGee About the HeadScarf Story Circle

We asked Rose McGee to talk about what the Minnesota Humanities Center Headscarf Story Circle is. There are upcoming discussions and events in Minneapolis and Rochester.

NEWS: The Mark of Operation Metro Surge on Minnesota’s Workforce and Economy

Local officials, business leaders, and immigrant rights advocates talked about the economic impact of ICE insurgence at a Minnesota House committee meeting. The long-term care sector faces particular pressure, given that approximately 30 percent of its workers are foreign-born. Minnesota’s immigrant business owners and workers generate $41 billion in economic output each year in the state.

Community Values in Action

This compilation of stories reflects the community values Minnesotans care about: protecting children, caregivers, health care patients, and renters. It includes the values reflected in an essay from Cannon Falls, from someone who was arrested for protest, and of community members at an MPR town hall.

We the People: Immigration Law and Constitutional Rights

We asked the team at Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services (SMRLS), which has worked with immigrants for decades, to walk through some of the questions people tend not to understand about immigration. We also received other details from immigration attorneys and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to clarify what the law says about immigration and constitutional rights.

Resistance as Diverse as Minnesota

A few of the 20,000 photographs Sarah Whiting shot in January and February

The Health Effects of ICE Tactics

Minnesota Women’s Press is gathering experts for a future online discussion with members, and deeper stories, about physical and mental health issues impacting children and adults. What do we do as a community to heal from what ICE agents have done?

Minnesota Is Home

"Minnesota is home. We live here. We raise our children here. Our presence is not a question — it is a fact. We serve this state with care."

Consumer Boycotts Reflect Who Actually Controls the Economy

GEO Group, CoreCivic, and CSI Aviation — some of the country’s largest private prison and deportation contractors — gave Trump close to $5 million and received over $5 billion in revenue. Consumer boycotts are designed to showcase other values. Said one, who was arrested for a sit-in protest at Target: "Everyday people are doing their part. We are asking why large corporations will not.”

Surviving ICE: Letty’s Story

The story of a woman who was detained three months by immigration agents in 2008, and her insights to share for families like hers who are impacted today.