Worries rising about depression and other issues among migrant teens in Dallas emergency shelter
“The goal is to get those kids out of there as soon as possible,” says lawyer-advocate.
Charter buses carrying migrant teenagers arrive under Federal Protective Service escort at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas on Wednesday, March 17, 2021.(Lola Gomez)
Conditions for about 2,000 migrant teen boys at the temporary emergency shelter in downtown Dallas are worrying advocates and former contract employees.
The boys at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center suffer from a lack of fresh air and sunlight, depression and limited access to phones to call their families. Fights have broken out among the boys as tensions have risen.
Numbers of migrants now crossing the border rises but most are still expelled
‘I’ll stay until this gets resolved,’ said one determined Guatemalan migrant.
Laureano Sanchez, a migrant from Guatemala, lays among dozens of other expelled migrants resting in a gazebo in a public square in the Mexican border city of Reynosa on Wednesday, March 31, 2021. He traveled to the U.S. with his teenage daughter only to be expelled back to Reynosa. “It’s so difficult,” Sanchez said of being stranded in Reynosa. “But we know nothing is difficult for God, and there’s nothing that’s impossible for him.”(Lynda M. González / Staff Photographer)
Homeland chief rejects GOP border label, says ‘crisis’ better describes Trump’s use of family separation to deter migrants
Alejandro Mayorkas’ definition of ‘crisis’ is ‘a nation is willing to rip a 9-year-old child out of the hands of his or her parent.’
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during a White House news briefing on March 1, 2021.(Demetrius Freeman)
WASHINGTON Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, ending the Biden administration’s semantic dance over the “crisis” label Republicans have applied to a recent border surge, shot back Wednesday that he would reserve that label for the cruel Trump-era policy of family separations.
McCarthy goes to the border to accuse Biden of inflaming immigration crisis
He led a delegation of 13 congressional members on a tour of a government detention facility and later a photo-op near the Rio Grande.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., at microphones, blasted the Biden administration for making the migration crisis worse on a trip to the border Monday, March 15, in El Paso.(Alfredo Corchado)
EL PASO House Republicans on Monday accused President Joe Biden of igniting an immigration “crisis” on the border that is allowing terrorists, drugs, and now, coronavirus, into the U.S.
“How much spread of COVID-19 is he creating every single day by his policies along his border?” said Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. “It’s wrong, and it has to end.”
Texas storm recovery for renters like this Dallas man is hard-fought
“What is an emergency, if not this?” says this disabled renter
Tom Strzyz holds his head as he talks about what he went through during the winter storm that hit Texas in mid-February. Strzyz along with several residents, lost power, fetched water from the swimming pool and hot water only began to flow this week in spurts at the Wildflower Apts complex in Dallas on Thursday, March 11, 2021.(Lola Gomez)
Tom Strzyz sulked in the muggy air outside his mucky apartment.
The epic snowstorm, failed electricity and busted pipes have sent his spirits south. Almost four weeks since the Texas arctic blast began on Valentine’s Day, his apartment is still a mess, especially the bathroom where a wall turned to sponge from a water leak and exposed the timber.