November 24, 2004 - The number of legal immigrants moving to Minnesota declined sharply last year.
November 24, 2004 - Chai Vang, the Hmong immigrant suspected of killing six hunters and wounding two others in Wisconsin is a bit of a mystery to the Hmong community and his own Dayton's Bluff neighborhood in St. Paul.
November 24, 2004 - Hmong leaders in Minnesota are grappling with unwanted attention on the Hmong community because a hunter who is Hmong killed six other hunters last Sunday. Chai Vang said in a police statement that he shot the white hunters after they taunted him with racial slurs. Vang's story does not match the statement of one of the shooting survivors who said no such language was used. Ilean Her is Executive Director of the Council on Asian-Pacific Minnesotans.
November 25, 2004 - The number of legal immigrants moving to Minnesota declined sharply last year.
November 25, 2004 - The shooting deaths of six hunters in northwestern Wisconsin has prompted a complex set of reactions - perhaps nowhere more than in the Twin Cities Hmong community. The alleged shooter, Chai Vang, is a Hmong immigrant who lives in St. Paul. When the first reports of the incident came out, local Hmong leaders cautioned against making Vang's ethnicity an issue.
November 25, 2004 - Hmong leaders in Minnesota are grappling with unwanted attention on the Hmong community because a hunter who is Hmong killed six other hunters last Sunday. Chai Vang said in a police statement that he shot the white hunters after they taunted him with racial slurs. Vang's story does not match the statement of one of the shooting survivors who said no such language was used. Ilean Her is Executive Director of the Council on Asian-Pacific Minnesotans.
November 25, 2004 - The suspect in the Wisconsin hunter shootings, Chai Vang, said in a police statement that he shot the white hunters because they were taunting him with racial slurs. Vang is a 6 year old Hmong immigrant who lives in St. Paul. Vang's story does not match the statement of one of the shooting survivors who said no such language was used. Wameng Moua is the editor of Hmong Today.
November 27, 2004 - There's a big party going on right now at River Centre in St. Paul. It's the Hmong New Year...and for the Hmong a New Year's Eve party means traditional costumes, dancing, singing and most importantly family. Dao Bay of the Lao Family Community of Minnesota is one of the organizers of celebration and speaks with MPR’s Stephine Curtis on how they determined when it is the new year.
November 29, 2004 - Chuck Quirmbach of Wisconsin Public Radio reports that formal charges may come for the St. Paul man accused of killing six hunters and wounding two others in Wisconsin. In Milwaukee, Chai Vang's defense lawyers talked about their hope for a fair trial in Wisconsin's Northwoods. They also brought forward Vang's eldest daughter to talk about her father.
November 29, 2004 - One of the lawyers representing the St.Paul man accused of killing six Wisconsin deer hunters last week says the Hmong community regrets the losses suffered by families involved. James Mentkowski is one of three attorneys representing Chai Vang. Mentkowski spoke at a news conference in Milwaukee yesterday.