
Wrestling with the American Dream
Afghan refugees find a home on a San Antonio high school athletics team.
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Afghan refugees find a home on a San Antonio high school athletics team.
In the poor, violent Northern Triangle of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, worsening floods, drought and storms are pushing a growing number of migrants north.
More people are displaced than ever before — nearly 69 million. The scale of that crisis is hard to grasp, but visitors to One to Another will see it in a new light.
“The government certainly has been relentless in their attempts to find ways to force their anti-abortion beliefs on this population,” said an ACLU attorney.
The ruling allowing Doe to get the abortion does not yet change the federal policy that initially blocked her procedure.
"There is no room for dignified depiction of refugees, and they’re not shown as human beings with hopes and plans to go back to normal life."
The bill would do nothing to keep the feds from placing refugees in Texas, but limits the state’s ability to negotiate specifics of resettlement.
As political leaders argue over the crisis at the Texas-Mexico border, local communities and nonprofits carry the weight.
Citing the potential for abuse at the center, a Travis County judge prevented Texas’ child welfare agency from licensing the facility for child care.