Centro Legal

One year ago, federal immigration agents began a four-day, house-to-house operation in Willmar, Minnesota. Federal officers detained 49 illegal immigrants. Nearly half had prior criminal records.

The after-effects of that operation are still playing out in the courts, and in the community.

ST. CLOUD, MN; Apr. 10 - Some people claim the problem with last year's immigration raid was the way it was conducted.

During the four-day Willmar operation, immigration attorneys took affidavits from dozens of people caught up in the raid.

Centro Legal is committed to providing affordable, quality, bilingual and bicultural civil legal representation, education, and advocacy to the low-income Latino community of Minnesota who are underserved due to language, cultural, and economic barriers. Their services are focused on poor and working poor individuals and families on the edges of self-sufficiency, as well as persons who face significant language and cultural barriers to accessing the justice system.