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Man hit by vehicle, shot during altercation in Minneapolis
A man was fighting for his life after being hit by a vehicle and shot during an altercation Saturday in Minneapolis.
Officers responded shortly after 12:30 a.m. to the intersection of N. Lowry and Fremont avenues, where they found a man with gunshot wounds, police Sgt. Garrett Parten said. He was taken to North Memorial Health Hospital in Robbinsdale with potentially life-threatening injuries.
Police had made no arrests as of noon Saturday.
According to Parten, investigators believe the man was at a bus stop when he “got into an altercation” with several people in a vehicle. The driver hit the man with his vehicle as he tried to run away, and one of the passengers allegedly shot the man before the vehicle fled the scene.
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Undocumented Minnesotans continue to seek driver’s licenses
Undocumented Minnesotans continue to apply for state driver’s licenses even as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to re-enter the White House in January and deliver on promises to increase deportations.
Minnesota’s Driver’s License For All law went into effect last October, making Minnesota the 21st state or U.S. territory to allow undocumented people to legally operate a vehicle. Many immigrants at a recent class about how to apply for a license said they’re taking a wait-and-see approach to the Trump administration.
They’re aware of his anti-immigrant rhetoric and his plans to deport millions of undocumented immigrants but say it’s still speculation at this point. Without permanent legal status, they say, they’re always at risk in the United States, no matter who is in the White House. The licenses are also available to people who are in the country legally but don’t have permanent residency, such as immigrants who have been granted Temporary Protected Status.
“We think that if we are on a good path, it won’t affect us,” Mayreli, a Venezuelan immigrant, said of Trump’s plans.
Mayreli, who is being identified by her first name only because of her immigration status, said most immigrants from her country are professionals who just want to work, and that obtaining a driver’s license and identification card are important steps. Trump’s campaign promises are scary, she said, but she believes he’ll mostly target criminals.
She took the driver’s license exam a week after the election.
The state does not share information about licensed drivers with federal immigration authorities without a court order, the Minnesota Drivers and Vehicle Services (DVS) office said in a statement to Sahan Journal.
“We only share data as allowed or required by law,” the statement said. “We will only share information if required by a state or federal judge order after exhausting all legal means.”
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Testimony showed repeated warnings about perilous border crossing
Border Patrol Agent Daniel Huguley found a backpack left by a migrant in his vehicle and discovered diapers and children’s clothes, prompting him and others to go back out and search.
By then, Rajinder Pal Singh of California, who was later convicted in another smuggling case, said he was receiving phone calls from a counterpart in Canada. They were from Fenil Patel, who had arranged the migrants’ passage to the border from the Manitoba side and has since been charged by Indian authorities.
Singh testified that Patel said a family of four migrants in the group had called him during their walk to the border to say they were too cold to continue, but he never followed through on his assurance that he would pick them up or send someone else.
Prosecutors say that Shand and Harshkumar Patel never called emergency services, either. It wasn’t until at least 3:30 p.m. that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police discovered the frozen bodies of Jagdish Patel, 39; his wife Vaishaliben, 37; their daughter Vihangi, 11; and their son Dharmik, 3, just yards from the border.
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Al DeRusha, pioneer in Minnesota sports and kids TV and a pro wrestling promoter, has died
Al DeRusha produced and directed Minnesota kids shows “Lunch with Casey” and “Romper Room,” and then worked with Verne Gagne’s American Wrestling Association and later the WWF.
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