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Friends! Make sure to listen to @DriverWrites on @TheTakeaway tomorrow to hear what is happening with the real border crisis in Piedras Negras. Here is my story for a primer, and hers will follow and surely be great:
houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
One of the biggest issues is that both Piedras Negras and Juarez, where unofficial Remain in Mexico and family separation pilots have both rolled out, respectively, are very remote and hard to get to with few media orgs and advocacy groups on both sides.
It doesn't seem like a coincidence.
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ICYMI:

“We don’t know exactly how many children were separated and there’s no question (the government’s) complete lack of tracking makes it complicated and is outrageous, irresponsible, and frankly, criminally negligent.”

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The government maintained it had no choice but to separate parents and children because the adults were charged with a crime and kids aren’t allowed in prison.
The logic never made much sense because most parents got time served so could immediately have been reunited.
But in Caal’s case, and untold other indigenous parents, she never was charged with a crime, perhaps because of her language ability.
So there appeared no reason to separate them at all.
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Local journalists are paid less & get fewer benefits than expat correspondents once did --often little above the prevailing wage, which might be as low as $900 a month. Such low pay comes despite the higher risks borne by AP’s local journalists
cjr.org/business_of_ne… via @cjr
“I told people I was a reporter by Twitter. If something was happening in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, or in Kampala, or Somalia, I wasn’t there and had no way to get there. I frequently found myself digging through Twitter for photos or underground sources or reporting leads."
Accurate look at the changing way of foreign reporting in the past decade. Terrifying thought that more and more many are 'reporters by Twitter,' and that foreign news covered less and less, meaning we know less and less of the world around us.
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.@MSF_USA also blocked from entering migrant shelter in Piedras Negras, but somehow @CIS_org’s @BensmanTodd was allowed in? Confused on this. And here’s my story on what’s happening there:

houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
How did you get in @BensmanTodd ? @RAICESTEXAS was blocked as well.
.@DriverWrites have you been allowed in?
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