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Minnesota farm town reshaped by migrants wrestles with real changes beyond the political vitriol

Nov. 01, 2024 09:05 AM EDT

WORTHINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Two Guatemalans wearing traditional embroidered skirts bought coconut boba teas on an October afternoon at the bustling downtown Asian market. In decades past, the building served as this rural town’s hardware store where farmers shopped for hammers, nuts and bolts. ...

Texas hospitals must now ask patients whether they're in the US legally. Here's how it works

Nov. 01, 2024 07:11 AM EDT

Texas hospitals must ask patients starting Friday whether they are in the U.S. legally and track the cost of treating people without legal status following an order by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott that expands the state's clash with the Biden administration over immigration. Critics...

Australian judge rules senator broke race law by telling rival legislator to return to Pakistan

Nov. 01, 2024 04:27 AM EDT

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian judge ruled Friday that anti-immigration party leader Sen. Pauline Hanson breached a racial anti-discrimination law by crudely telling Pakistan-born Sen. Mehreen Faruqi to return to her homeland. Faruqi sued Hanson in Federal Court over a...

Today in History: November 1, Seabiscuit wins “Race of the Century”

Nov. 01, 2024 00:08 AM EDT

Today is Friday, Nov. 1, the 306th day of 2024. There are 60 days left in the year. Today in history: On Nov. 1, 1938, in a two-horse match race, Seabiscuit defeated the favored Triple Crown winner War Admiral by four lengths in what was dubbed the “Race of the...

PHOTO COLLECTION: Immigration

Oct. 31, 2024 23:18 PM EDT
This is a collection of photos chosen by AP photo editors.

A Quaker who helps migrants says US presidential election will make no difference at the border

Oct. 31, 2024 14:08 PM EDT

JACUMBA HOT SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — As dawn breaks through low clouds over the high desert, Sam Schultz drives along the knotted dirt roads near the U.S.-Mexico border, looking for migrants to help. For more than a year now, Schultz, 69, has been been bringing food, water, warm...

In Amharic, Karen and Spanish, worship is like home for migrants in heartland town

Oct. 31, 2024 08:16 AM EDT

WORTHINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Come noon on Sundays, overlapping worship options reflect how much Worthington has changed from a typical Midwestern farming community to a majority-minority hub with migrants from around the world. An overflow crowd is still swaying to thumping praise...

Then & Now: How immigration reshaped the look of a Minnesota farm town

Oct. 31, 2024 08:14 AM EDT

WORTHINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Immigration from around the world has transformed Worthington, bringing new businesses to emptying downtown storefronts as well as new worship and recreational spaces to this town of 14,000 residents in the southwestern Minnesota farmland. On the same...

Takeaways from AP's report on how immigration transformed a Minnesota farm town

Oct. 31, 2024 08:14 AM EDT

WORTHINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Over the past generation, immigrants from Southeast Asia, East Africa and now predominantly Central America have transformed Worthington, a once overwhelmingly white farming community. Students of color constitute more than 80% of those enrolled in K-12, Spanish is most...

Europe's human rights watchdog urges Cyprus to let migrants stuck in UN buffer zone seek asylum

Oct. 30, 2024 18:47 PM EDT

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A senior official with Europe’s top human rights watchdog has urged the government of ethnically divided Cyprus to allow passage to nearly three dozen asylum seekers out of a U.N.-controlled buffer zone where they have been stranded in tents for months. ...