Amy Juarez and Baby Hamilton

Amy Juarez and Baby Hamilton

Babysitter Amy Juarez with Baby Hamilton. Hamilton was separated from his mother, Catalina, after the ICE raids in Worthington on December 12, 2006. Photograph by Diego Velez for the Minnesota Immigrant Freedom Network, December 17, 2006.

Family members reunited after the Worthington ICE raid

Family members reunited after the Worthington ICE raid

The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota’s John Keller (left) and UFCW Local 1161 President Mike Potter (right) with two family members (center) reunited after the ICE raid on the Swift & Company plant in Worthington. Photograph by the Minnesota Immigrant Freedom Network, December 14, 2006.

Swift and Company ICE raids, 2006

On Tuesday, December 12, 2006, federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided six meat-processing plants in six US states, including one in Worthington, Minnesota. At the Worthington plant alone, 239 workers were detained, leaving the city’s 11,283 residents in a state of turmoil. Children and families sought out community churches for asylum while local organizations worked tirelessly to establish faith-based and interpersonal networks to support the Worthington community.

David Madson

David Madson

David Madson, undated. This photograph circulated through the news media via the Associated Press after Madson's murder by Andrew Cunanan in 1997.

David Madson

David Madson

David Madson, undated.

MN90: R 'N R for Gangsters

In the 1930s, St. Paul became a safe haven for every bank robber, stickup artist, and kidnapper in America. MN90 producer Marisa Helms explains.

MN90: The Notorious Northfield Raid

By the time Jesse James and his gang showed up to rob a bank in Northfield, Minnesota, in 1876, they’d been at it for over a decade. But on that fateful September day, their efforts were thwarted. MN90 Producer Andi McDaniel finds out why First National Bank was the gang’s last stand.

MN90: Alonzo J. Whiteman, Professional Scoundrel

Britt Aamodt reports on Alonzo J. Whiteman, a Minnesota legislator from Duluth. By the time he died in 1922, Whiteman was wanted in forty cities, with more than forty arrests and eleven convictions to his name.

Alonzo J. Whiteman

Alonzo J. Whiteman

Alonzo J. Whiteman, ca. 1919. From “The Poorhouse and Death Claim Two Famous Criminals,” New York Sun, November 9, 1919, 8.

Alonzo J. Whiteman

Alonzo J. Whiteman

Alonzo J. Whiteman, ca. 1890s.

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