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Immigrants

Texas Is Cracking Down on Essential Immigrant Drivers

Professionals like me get Texas kids safely to school. We get food to grocery stores and medical supplies to hospitals. Until the government decides to throw us out of work.

by Rina Flores

Keep Reading

‘What Kind of Life Is This?’: Five Desperate Cubans Weigh Their Odds in Texas

by Jesús Jank Curbelo

Turning Anti-Asian Hate into Law

by Saba Khonsari

U.S. Immigration Policy Is to Blame for the Horrific Mass Death in San Antonio

by Claudia E. Muñoz-Castellano

Jun 17, 2014

Fiction Review: Cristina Henríquez’s The Book of Unknown Americans Complicates the ‘Single Story’ of Latinos in the U.S.

by Ashley Hope Perez

May 14, 2014

Eye On Texas: Strangers In a New Land

by Lizzie Chen

Oct 17, 2013

Q&A with Oscar Martinez, Author of ‘The Beast’

Martinez talks about the three years he spent dodging organized crime and reporting on the hidden life of Central American migrants.

by Melissa del Bosque

Oct 04, 2013

DPS Checkpoints Create Fear, Havoc in the Rio Grande Valley

by Melissa del Bosque

Aug 22, 2013

Public Defender: Prison Reform Must Include Undocumented Immigrants

by David Peterson

A DPS Helicopter Sniper Kills Two Men on Border Highway

by Melissa del Bosque

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