When we fought for the Minnesota 8 and were able to protect three of them from being deported to Cambodia, we received national recognition for our work—winning 2017 Campaign of the Year Award from Southeast Asian Resource Action Center (SEARAC), featuring in documentaries made by the New Yorker & Al Jazeera, and more. Since then, MN8 has become a national model for effective family advocacy. Our org has built partnerships that support impacted individuals & their families. In the last year alone, MN8 celebrated the first Southeast Asian community member in the Midwest to return home from deportation, celebrated Shorty’s (one of the original Minnesota 8) citizenship, supported over 100 Southeast Asian families in mutual aid financially & through culturally specific foods, and grew our staff. For more on how our work has been shared with the world, please see the media coverage below.

• Southeast Asian American and Asian American Organizations Across the Country Denounce Trump Administration’s Move to Increase Deportations to Laos – Statement from Southeast Asian Deportation Defense Network
  
• Worth Fighting For – Pollen Midwest, April 17, 2018
  
• Deportation in U.S., forced back to Cambodia | 101 East – Al Jazeera English, September 28, 2017
  
• BREAKING: Chamroeun Phan of #ReleaseMN8 Finally Released to His Family – SEARAC, September 22, 2017
  
• The Minnesota Eight Don’t Want to Be Deported to a Country They’ve Never Lived In – The New Yorker, April 5, 2017
  
• Cambodian refugees under deportation threat await their fate – MPR News, April 4, 2017
  
• 8 Cambodian Refugees in Minnesota Prove Why Deportations Must be Stopped – Huffington Post, April 1, 2017
  
• 36 Cambodian refugees could soon be deported. This man’s story will break your heart – Mic, March 19, 2017
  
• Deportation Halted For Cambodian Refugee Living In Minnesota As Legal Resident – Huffington Post, March 11, 2017
  
• Cambodians Face Deportations to Homeland They’ve Never Known – VOA News, February 10, 2017
  
• MN 8 deliver “Not Home for the Holiday” cards to ICE officials – Asian American Press, January 17, 2017
  
• Stop the Unjust Deportations of the Minnesota 8 #ReleaseMN8 – Angry Asian Man, December 16, 2016
  
• Cambodian refugee hopes to avert deportation – MPR News, November 23, 2016
  
• Cambodian refugee awaits post-conviction relief decision that may halt immediate deportation – Faribault Daily News, November 23, 2016
  
• Activists Rally in Support of ‘Minnesota 8,’ Refugees Facing Deportation to Cambodia – NBC News, November 4, 2016
  
• Rally demands ICE release Minnesota 8, stop deportations to Cambodia – Fight Back! News, November 4, 2016
  
• The ‘Minnesota 8’: Defending their right of no return – MinnPost, November 3, 2016
  
• Cambodian Americans from Minnesota are about to be deported to a country they’ve never been to – Angry Asian Man, October 31, 2016
  
• Minnesota activists push back as deportations loom – The Phnom Penh Post, October 24, 2016
  
• Families call for release of ‘Minnesota 8’ facing deportation to Cambodia – Fight Back! News, October 21, 2016
  
• Brought as kids, possibly deported as adults, several Cambodians await federal action – MPR News, September 15, 2016
  
• Minneapolis rally protests the planned deportation of Cambodian refugees – Star Tribune, September 14, 2016
  
• Stop the deportations of Cambodians in Minnesota #Not1More – NoMoreDeportations, September 9, 2016