Africans in Grand Forks mark year of working together
November 1, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
People from Liberia, Somalia, Ethiopia and more than a dozen other African nations who have settled in the Grand Forks area in recent years will celebrate their first anniversary as the United African Community on Saturday. Continue Reading
Nearly 100 new immigrant and refugee students entered the Grand Forks School District this fall, up 43 from the previous year, according to district documents.
The girl’s family has questioned why U.S. officials didn’t do more to verify her identify. U.S. immigration officials have said they were investigating, but insist they followed procedure and found nothing to indicate that the girl wasn’t as she claimed a woman from Colombia illegally living in the U.S.
The Border Patrol says arrests of illegal immigrants along the U.S. border with Mexico are at the lowest level since the Nixon administration. 
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