Immigrants Reviving a Town in Today’s Minnesota

“WORTHINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Immigration from around the world has transformed Worthington, bringing new businesses to emptying downtown storefronts as well as new worship and recreational spaces to this town of 14,000 residents in the southwestern Minnesota farmland.” In my beautiful home state of Minnesota where I still reside.

An article by GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO and JESSIE WARDARSKI is making the rounds of online news. Immigrants helping to revive a town. Immigrants starting new businesses, working in established businesses, attending church, shopping, children in school. Worthington is in Nobles County, in Southwestern Minnesota along Interstate 90 and is thriving because of a mix of recent immigrants with descendants of much earlier immigrants and probably some descendants of Native Americans.

Read the article for free on The Associated Press (AP) website https://apnews.com/article/immigration-policy-integration-minnesota-history-churches-business-soccer-5385d18481c901ee1faeec19c16ebf6d

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