College graduate devotes year to aiding immigrants

This recent graduate will spend a year helping illegal immigrants in Texas apply for their green cards. This will give her good experience and certainly help the immigrants. - - Donna Poisl

by Kristine Goodrich, Staff Writer

VADNAIS HEIGHTS — For the first time in her life, Kristin Knudson finds herself among the ethnic minority.

A fair-skinned blonde of Scandinavian descent, the Vadnais Heights native looks a lot like the average Minnesotan. Fluent in Swedish, she spent a semester studying in Sweden.

Now the recent college graduate is volunteering for one year in Harlingen, a community in southern Texas where more than two-thirds of the population is Hispanic.
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