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Suspect in mail carrier shooting identified

WARREN, Minn. (AP) — Authorities have identified the 73-year-old man who died after shooting a mail carrier’s vehicle and a deputy’s squad car in rural northwestern Minnesota.

The medical examiner in Grand Forks County, North Dakota, identifies the man as Clarence Huderle (HUD’-ur-lee) of Warren. Huderle died of a gunshot wound, but the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says his death is still being investigated.

Authorities say the mail carrier was making deliveries late Monday morning when gunshots shattered the rear window of his vehicle in Polk County. A deputy who responded was confronted by Huderle armed with a rifle. Huderle fired at the deputy, striking the squad car.

Investigators say an officer with the Pine to Prairie Drug Task Force returned fire. Huderle was later found dead outside his home with a high-powered rifle.

Student group causes stir with signs

ST. PETER, Minn. (AP) — A student organization says it posted provocative signs about illegal immigrants at a Minnesota college as part of a social experiment.

The signs were posted Monday at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter and said “white Americans” had a “civic duty to report any and all illegal aliens,” calling illegal immigrants “criminals.”

Students tore down the signs.

The Diversity Leadership Council, which represents 21 student groups at Gustavus, said a subcommittee of the group and a social justice theater troupe posted the signs. KEYC-TV reports the group hopes the campus will reflect on the social experiment, but apologized to anyone who may have been hurt.

Dean of students JoNes VanHecke tells KMSP-TV the school was aware of the plan to post the signs, but probably should have told students beforehand.

More judges could be sent to cut backlog

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — The immigration court in the Twin Cities suburb of Bloomington has a backlog of about 5,300 cases — an all-time high.

In about 150 of those cases, individuals are being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Minnesota Public Radio News (http://bit.ly/2o25lXX ) reports the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review has preliminary plans to dispatch judges to Bloomington and 11 other cities. The Bloomington court serves Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.

This week immigration judges were redeployed to six detention centers mostly near the border with Mexico in an effort to put President Donald Trump’s immigration directives into effect. There’s a nationwide backlog of about 542,000 cases, including nearly 21,000 people who are being held in custody.

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