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Residents urge Maple Grove to join coalition, seek rental aid after immigration enforcement activity
Summary
Several residents told the city council March 2 that immigration enforcement activity has left neighbors afraid to leave home and asked Maple Grove to join the Coalition of Cities for Safe and Stable Communities, create rental-assistance measures, and take other protections for affected residents.
At a March 2 Maple Grove City Council meeting, multiple residents urged the council to join the Coalition of Cities for Safe and Stable Communities and to adopt local measures to protect residents affected by recent immigration enforcement activity.
Chris Asp said the council should stop reading speakers’ addresses aloud because doing so could endanger people who have fled unsafe situations. "I recently relocated to the northwest suburbs after fleeing an unsafe living situation," she said, describing difficulty finding work and short-term housing and noting that some apartment buildings…
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