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Immigration

Program Helps Immigrant Women In Houston Launch Child Care Businesses During The Pandemic

Elizabeth Trovall

Posted on July 2, 2021 · Women left the workforce in droves after day cares and schools closed or went remote during the pandemic, exacerbating strains on affordable, accessible child care. But, a Houston-area program has empowered refugee and immigrant women to step up and fill the child care gap as entrepreneurs.

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Immigration

Honduran Man Dies Of COVID-19 Complications After Detention In Houston-area Immigration Facility

Elizabeth Trovall

Posted on September 2, 2020 · This is the second COVID-19 related death of immigrants detained at the Joe Corley Detention Facility, which has reported 50 COVID-19 cases among ICE detainees since the pandemic started.

Tags CONROE COVID HOUSTON COVID DEATH ICE COVID ICE COVID DEATH ICE detainee death immigrant immigration

Immigration

Houston Food Pantries Help Put Food On The Table As Immigrants Opt Out Of Food Stamps

Elizabeth Trovall

Posted on July 30, 2019 · Immigrants are disenrolling from food stamps and other public benefits across the country. That’s causing low-income families to look for other ways to feed their families.

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Immigration

Feds: No More Education, Legal Services For Immigrant Kids

ASTRID GALVAN, AP / ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, AP

Posted on June 6, 2019 · BCFS, a nonprofit provider in several Texas cities, says it will continue providing services because not doing so would violate state licensing standards.

Tags border patrol Central America Health and Human Services Department immigrant Southwest Key texas U.S. unaccompanied children

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Houston Matters

New Report Examines Houston’s Immigrant Population

Abner Fletcher

Posted on September 20, 2018 · Migration Policy Institute new report is the second time the non-partisan group has chose to examine our region…again.

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Report: Houston’s Immigrant Labor Force Faces Educational Challenges

Elizabeth Trovall

Posted on July 18, 2018 · 35 percent of Houston's immigrant labor force has less than a high school degree, according to new research

Tags houston immigrant immigration labor upskill workforce

inDepth

Border Volunteers Allege Mistreatment Of Detainees

Allison Lee

Posted on July 17, 2018 · Three volunteers recount stories of migrants not being able to shower for several days, sparse food, dehydration, and even babies with fevers who have not been treated

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While Migrant Families Seek Shelter From Violence, Trump Administration Narrows Path To Asylum

Emma Platoff, The Texas Tribune / Jolie McCullough, Texas Tribune / DARLA CAMERON, Texas Tribune / Alexa Ura, The Texas Tribune

Posted on July 10, 2018 · Advocates for asylum-seekers at the border say a long difficult process has become increasingly unjust. And the Trump administration shows no signs of changing its tune.

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Trump’s Executive Order On Family Separation: What It Does And Doesn’t Do

Richard Gonzales, NPR

Posted on June 21, 2018 · The president ended a policy that sent children to government-run facilities away from their parents, but critics say he created new problems, and kids already held may be there indefinitely.

Tags border children family separation immigrant immigration Trump

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Youngest Migrants Held In ‘Tender Age’ Shelters

Associated Press

Posted on June 20, 2018 · Since the White House announced its zero tolerance policy in early May, more than 2,300 children have been taken from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border

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News

House GOP Immigration Bill Would Modify — But Not End — Child Detentions

Jessica Taylor, NPR

Posted on June 19, 2018 · Under the legislation, children would be held in the same place as their parents if the parents are detained. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., says he'd back a compromise bill.

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News

What’s Happening At The Border? Here’s What We Know About Immigrant Children Being Separated From Their Families

Marilyn Haigh, Texas Tribune

Posted on June 19, 2018 · Under the federal government's "zero tolerance" policy, about 2,000 children have been separated from their parents at the border.

Tags border children family separation immigrant immigration Trump

News

Protesters Across The U.S. Decry Policy Of Separating Immigrant Families

Joel Rose, NPR / MARISA PEÑALOZA, NPR

Posted on June 1, 2018 · People gathered in cities across the country on Friday to protest the Trump administration's policy of separating immigrant parents and children who cross the southern border illegally.

Tags Department of Justice immigrant immigrant rights Trump administration

News

Under A Trump Proposal, Lawful Immigrants Might Shun Medical Care

CHRISTINA JEWETT, NPR, KHN / MELISSA BAILEY, NPR, KHN / PAULA ANDALO, NPR, KHN

Posted on May 10, 2018 · A proposed change in immigration policy from the Trump administration could make it harder for immigrants to obtain a green card if family members use Medicaid, WIC or other federal medical benefits

Tags children's health insurance green card holders immigrant immigration medicaid President Trump

News

Trump Administration “Zero Tolerance” Directive Could Send More Unaccompanied Minors To Houston

Elizabeth Trovall

Posted on May 10, 2018 · Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the policy earlier this week

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Food Not Bombs volunteer found not guilty after citation for feeding homeless

Ashley Brown

Posted on July 31, 2023 · The city began issuing citations for the first time earlier this year, after the organization had been feeding the homeless outside the downtown library for two decades.

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Arts & Culture

Houston comedian, actor Mo Amer will perform show on ‘Mo Day’

Spencer Plato

Posted on July 13, 2023 · Mo Day will officially be on September 16.

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Houston Matters

How parents can navigate a transformed world of child care in Houston

Joshua Zinn

Posted on July 10, 2023 · Collaborative for Children President and CEO Dr. Melanie Johnson has advice.

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Findings from ITC fire investigation (July 10, 2023)

Michael Hagerty

Posted on July 10, 2023 · On Monday's show: We examine the findings from an investigation of the fire that burned for three days at the ITC chemical storage facility in Deer Park in 2019.

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