Minnesota is built by immigrants who’ve enriched the state with diversity and innovation. One of those groups is the Hmong community. Minnesota is home to the largest Hmong population in the country, and it all started nearly 50 years ago when the Vietnam War ended with the fall of Saigon. Months after the fall, Leng Wong…
The Vietnam War started in 1955, nearly 8,000 miles away from the U.S. in the dense and remote jungles of South Vietnam. While the U.S. slowly deployed into Vietnam in the 1950s, the full deployment of combat units began in 1965. Fighting would soon spread to Laos and Cambodia, with the CIA recruiting and training…
The fall of Saigon 50 years ago marked the end of the Vietnam War, and for WCCO’s Pauleen Le, it marked the start of her family’s immigration story to America — one that resonates with so many Minnesotan families. Le shares her story below. While decades have passed since the war’s end, the pain and…
Palestinian student explains why he challenged Trump after release: “You will not silence me” – CBS News Watch CBS News Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian Columbia student who had been detained by immigration authorities when he went to his U.S. citizenship interview, was released after a judge’s order. He spoke to Lilia Luciano in his first…
The Trump administration has approached far-flung countries to aid its mass deportation effort, asking nations like Angola and Equatorial Guinea to accept migrants who are not their citizens, according to internal federal government documents obtained by CBS News. The talks are part of an intense diplomatic campaign by the Trump administration to convince as many…
The Trump administration announced Monday it will offer free airline tickets and a $1,000 incentive to some unauthorized immigrants if they sign up for self-deportation and return to their home countries voluntarily. The Department of Homeland Security said it has helped some migrants obtain plane tickets so they can return to their native countries in…
Minnesota is built by immigrants who’ve enriched the state with diversity and innovation. One of those groups is the Hmong community. Minnesota is home to the largest Hmong population in the country, and it all started nearly 50 years ago when the Vietnam War ended with the fall of Saigon. Months after the fall, Leng Wong…
The Vietnam War started in 1955, nearly 8,000 miles away from the U.S. in the dense and remote jungles of South Vietnam. While the U.S. slowly deployed into Vietnam in the 1950s, the full deployment of combat units began in 1965. Fighting would soon spread to Laos and Cambodia, with the CIA recruiting and training…
The fall of Saigon 50 years ago marked the end of the Vietnam War, and for WCCO’s Pauleen Le, it marked the start of her family’s immigration story to America — one that resonates with so many Minnesotan families. Le shares her story below. While decades have passed since the war’s end, the pain and…
President Trump said he doesn’t know if everyone in the U.S., citizens or non-citizens, is entitled to due process — the constitutional command stated in both the Fifth and the Fourteenth Amendment. “I don’t know. I’m not, I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know,” Mr. Trump told NBC News’ Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press”…