Stella M. Chávez
StellaChávezisKERA’seducation reporter/blogger. Her journalism roots run deep: She spent a decade and a half in newspapers – including seven years at The Dallas Morning News, where she covered education and won the Livingston Award for National Reporting, which is given annually to the best journalists across the country under age 35. The award-winning entry was “Yolanda’s Crossing,” a seven-partDMN series she co-wrote that reconstructs the 5,000-mile journey of a young Mexican sexual-abuse victim from a smallOaxacanvillage to Dallas. For the last two years, she worked for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,where she was part of the agency’s outreach efforts on the Affordable Care Act and ran the regional office’s social media efforts.
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U.S. Census Bureau is projecting that the U..S. population will become much older within a few decades — and more than a quarter of the population will be Hispanic.
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A decade or so ago, migrants coming to the U.S.-Mexico border were mostly Mexican males. Today, the makeup of migrants who want to cross the border is much more diverse.
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Thousands of people gathered in front of Dallas City Hall on Sunday to protest Israel's war in Gaza.
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The State Fair of Texas was evacuated Saturday night after reports of a shooting.
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Some agencies that conduct immigration-related business, such as ICE, would continue to operate during a government shutdown. Others would not.
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Laura Collins, immigration policy expert with the George W. Bush Institute, discusses the tumultuous history of legislation aimed at undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children.
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The Biden Administration has extended Temporary Protected Status for more than 300,000 residents from four countries, but thousands more have no protections.
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Los Servicios de Refugiados de Texas cierran permanentemente después de cuatro décadas
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Refugee Services of Texas, the state’s largest resettlement agency, is shutting down after 45 years. RST made the announcement on Friday.
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Several bills filed in this legislative session are targeting immigrants and foreign nationals. And that has members of these communities worried.