Quarantining Compassion
by Rachel Pearson / Posted on | No CommentsThe Texas policy of subjecting returning doctors and nurses to unnecessary quarantines for Ebola may discourage them from going abroad in the first place.
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Protests Mount in Mexico Over Missing Students
by Jason McGahan / Posted on | 4 CommentsProtesters gathered in the thousands in Mexico City for a march to commemorate the 43 students at a teachers college in southern Mexico who disappeared after being taken into police custody.
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Peace vs. Quiet in the Summer of Ferguson
by Michelle Garcia / Posted on | 3 CommentsIn Ferguson and elsewhere this summer, powerful people called for peace. But what they are actually demanding is quiet. Peace and quiet are not synonymous.
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Congressman Beto O’Rourke: There is No Border Crisis
by Forrest Wilder / Posted on | 44 CommentsFor Congressman Beto O’Rourke (D-El Paso), the response to the influx of refugees from Central America is sickeningly out of touch with reality.
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Disease Threat From Immigrant Children Wildly Overstated
by Rachel Pearson / Posted on | 312 CommentsThe Central American kids arriving in Texas are likely to be better-vaccinated than children in Texas.
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Obama: Spike in Children at Border ‘Urgent Humanitarian Situation’
by Melissa del Bosque / Posted on | 1 CommentPresident Obama issued a presidential memo Monday calling the huge number of unaccompanied children crossing the border—primarily into Texas—an “urgent humanitarian situation.” The White […]
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Historic Meeting Gives Hope to Mexican Exiles Living in the U.S.
by Melissa del Bosque / Posted on | No CommentsEl Paso immigration attorney Carlos Spector represents more than 100 families who have fled violence in Mexico. Many were forced to flee while investigating […]
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Fostering Neglect
by Emily DePrang and Beth Cortez-Neavel / Posted on | 4 CommentsTexas’ foster care reforms were supposed to fix a deadly system. Instead, they might make it worse.
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As Honduras Unravels, U.S. Struggles to Cope with Refugees
by Melissa del Bosque / Posted on | 3 CommentsA growing movement of Central Americans protest mistreatment by authorities, criminals in Mexico.
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Childhood Lost
by Patrick Michels / Posted on | 6 CommentsSarah Brian says her two children were stolen by her own parents—with help from the
state of Texas.