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Residents urge Blue Earth County to document local costs of federal budget cuts and oppose aggressive ICE actions
Summary
Several residents and faith leaders at the Feb. 17 Blue Earth County commissioners meeting urged the board to quantify how recent federal budget changes and increased ICE activity are affecting local services, and asked the county to publicly advocate to Congress and use county authority to protect residents.
Multiple residents and local faith leaders used the public-comment period at the Blue Earth County Board of Commissioners meeting on Feb. 17 to press the board to examine and respond to recent federal actions they said are harming local families and services.
Catherine Fushi told the board she wanted the county to "use its influence to publicly advocate" for rolling back what she described as expanded Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in Minnesota and for Congress to…
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