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U.S. flies newly arrived migrants across Texas only to immediately expel them in El Paso The shuffling of migrants underscores the challenges facing the Biden administration as it tries to adopt a more humanitarian approach to immigration while insisting the border is not open. The international bridge walkway between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on March 12, 2020. Migrants must cross it when expelled from the U.S.(Alfredo Corchado) The Dallas Morning News has learned. The expulsions include children with their families. The migrants, most who are legally seeking asylum, are flown to other cities after crossing the border in the Rio Grande Valley. Federal officials say the migrants need to be moved to ease overcrowding at processing facilities. ....
EL PASO – Hundreds of migrant families are being flown from South Texas to this region by the Department of Homeland Security to help ease pandemic-related. ....
No water: 15 days after losing service due to a winter storm, some in Dallas still lack working plumbing ‘Minnesotans don’t go through this’: Slow recovery from Texas storm hits Dallas renters hard Holding her 6-month-old Juan Jr., Maria Magarin looks at the water damage she’s sustained to her apartment in far northeast Dallas on Thursday, March 4, 2021. Magarin sustained extensive water damage and lost hot water due to the epic snowstorm that hit a few weeks ago. Magarin fears the mold growing on her wet walls will make her young sons sick and that the saggy ceiling in a walk-in closet will collapse.(Lynda M. González / Staff Photographer) ....
The bodies kept coming to the morgue, but none were leaving. Frozen to death from hypothermia. Poisoned by carbon monoxide. Trapped in home fires. Dead from crashes on icy roads. The Dallas County medical examiner’s Office was close to capacity and funeral homes couldn’t pick up bodies as the winter storm made roads icy and caused millions of power outages across Texas. More bodies came last week as families, unable to check on loved ones during the storm, discovered relatives died in their homes and the bodies of the homeless were found. Dr. Jeffrey Barnard, Dallas County medical examiner, asked hospitals to hold onto bodies a few extra days. Morgue doctors stored others in the cooling trucks that are used only in emergencies. ....
‘Where am I going to go?’: More than a week after the storm, North Texans don’t have water As of Thursday, 250 water repairs were made in Dallas and 90 were pending, and the city hoped to address them all by next Thursday. It was unclear how many people still didn’t have water. From left: Modesta Gonzalez, 60; Deveany Mendoza, 10; Alina Mendoza, 6; and Guadelupe Mendoza, 4, are reflected in water that flooded their apartment last week at Villas del Solamar in Dallas.(Brandon Wade / Special Contributor) On her 10th day without running water, Yulissa Gonzalez couldn’t bear to enter her apartment. The stench was just too strong. ....