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Tag Archives: Karnes County

Paralegal Blocked from Karnes Detention Center After Observer Story

Fri, Mar 27, 2015 |

After reporting a 4,500-word story on her firsthand experience inside Karnes, paralegal Victoria Rossi found her access denied because of a technicality....Read More

Families in the hall at the notorious T. Don Hutto family detention center

by Melissa del Bosque

Costly Bonds Leave Women Refugees Languishing in Detention

Tue, Feb 17, 2015 |

Asylum-seeking women and children are locked in detention facilities and charged such high immigration bonds that they can’t get out. Eventually, the mothers ...Read More

Karnes County Residential Center

by Victoria Rossi

Seeking Asylum in Karnes City

An up-close-and-personal view of family detention in a for-profit lock-up in South Texas.

Mon, Feb 2, 2015 |

When women and children seeking asylum are detained in Texas, they encounter an immigration system that seems designed to discourage them at every turn....Read More

by Melissa del Bosque

Karnes County Considers its Future in the Family Detention Business

Sat, Dec 6, 2014 |

Karnes County residents debate the expansion of an immigrant family detention facility in their community....Read More

A horned lizard found in Karnes City during a door-to-door survey of homeowners. This lizard was found near another lizard that had been radio-collared on a previous survey.

Goodbye to the Horny Toad?

Thu, Nov 21, 2013 |

The Texas Legislature proclaimed Kenedy, Texas the Horned Lizard Capital of Texas. These days horny toads are scarce. What happened?...Read More

by Forrest Wilder

UPDATED: Air Pollution from Fracking in Eagle Ford Shale Threatens Health, Report Claims

Thu, Sep 19, 2013 |

A new 47-page report from Earthworks takes a sobering look at the potential health risks from fracking-related air pollution in Karnes County, one of the epicen...Read More

The Trouble with Karnes County’s ICE ‘Hotel’

by Melissa del Bosque

Fri, Mar 16, 2012

This week Immigration and Custom Enforcement unveiled its new 608-bed detention facility in Karnes County, 60 miles southeast of San Antonio. The facility, whic...Read More

Is a Mine a Terrible Thing to Waste?

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by Forrest Wilder

Wed, Sep 16, 2009

When I was a kid growing up in South Texas, my parents would often take long, looping Sunday drives on the beat-up county roads near Yorktown, Goliad, Cuero, Ke...Read More

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