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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott
previously called for the federal government to shut down the site, after leveling accusations that the teens sheltered there faced sexual abuse and mistreatment.
Meanwhile,
NPR reports the number of migrant children and teens housed in “jail-like” Border Patrol holding facilities has dropped, as the government continues to open more temporary shelters and transfer children out of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody and into the custody of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). But challenges remain, including finding enough staff to run HHS emergency shelters.
Biden And The Border Wall
An entrance to the Sul Ross State University campus at Alpine.
Laura Torres didn’t plan to study in her hometown of Del Rio. She had gone to the University of South Carolina for a teaching program, but then got pregnant and moved back to the border city of Del Rio in 2018.
She’s determined to continue her education and enrolled at the Rio Grande College, an upper-level branch of Sul Ross State University in West Texas serving the Middle Rio Grande region with satellite campuses.
But it’s been a challenge, she said, and not just as a single mother.
Gallego: Setting higher standards at Sul Ross State University
Pete Gallego, For the Express-News
April 6, 2021
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Tough decisions have been required to improve the financial standing at Sul Ross State University, writes President Pete Gallego, a former state lawmaker. Those decisions have drawn scrutiny and raise hackles.E. Joseph Deering /Houston Chronicle
When I began last summer as president of Sul Ross State University which is both my alma mater and my hometown college in Alpine I knew there would be challenges: teaching during COVID, finding ways to increase enrollment and providing more financial aid, to start.
I immediately introduced new ideas to overcome them. My experience is as a lawyer and legislator, and I served for years on the conference committee that balanced multiple Texas state budgets. So, naturally, I started looking at finances.
Cora enrolled in our outpatient hospice program with end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Cora lived adjacent to her daughter, Tammy. Cora’s living room window faced the Ohio River, only a