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A great story by @itscaitlinhd about how the government appears to be using the guise of covid to expel not only more than 900 children on their own at the southern border, but also rush through deportations of children already here, often to no one.
nytimes.com/2020/05/20/us/…
.@itscaitlinhd and @shearm also had a very important story about how the Trump administration has used an obscure law designed to protect the nation from diseases overseas as a way to tighten the borders.
nytimes.com/2020/05/03/us/…
.@mollymotoole has been relentless on this issue, along with @theCindyCarcamo, publishing this story last week latimes.com/politics/story…
.@mollymotoole also had a deep look at one Guatemalan teen who qualified for special protections but the government deported her anyway on Monday:
latimes.com/politics/story…
.@aflores is incredible at always having his pulse on every single important story in south Texas and he was one of the first to write about this: buzzfeednews.com/article/adolfo…
So is @camiloreports who has really been killing it on this issue in particular, including this spectacular story: cbsnews.com/news/coronavir…
.@NomaanMerchant won best AP reporter in Texas last year for good reason, including the amazing, heartbreaking stories he has put out on the Migrant Protection Protocols program in the past year, and this was another important piece he wrote on this issue: apnews.com/b64523bed9c1ed…
.@propublica wrote this story this week focused on two Salvadoran girls who could be deported as soon as Friday. The girls, 8 and 11, are victims of sexual assault and face being deported back to no one. Thjeir father had gone missing in Mexico under MPP. propublica.org/article/the-tr…
This is such an important issue -we don't even know what has happened to hardly any of +900 kids expelled under Trump administration's emergency declaration, & we know kids returned under MPP are in terrible situations. Glad amazing reporters are on this & we NEED more answers.
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What do #Texas drivers licenses & @thebeatles John Lennon have to do with the #DACA case before @Scotus? In 2012 Obama approved the DACA regulation giving 'deferred action' to certain young immigrants who came here illegally as children, so they could work & wouldn't be deported
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It's often not possible to have a close relationship with the photographer reporters work with, but when it is, it yields better work. In April @MarieDennise & I profiled this cross-border El Paso family & little Memo's baseball team in Ciudad Juarez.
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In April, @MarieDennise & I met a beautiful El Paso family that illustrated the city's cross-border identity. (tinyurl.com/y4zcervf) This week we were back reporting on the #elpasoshooting & were horrified to hear they were among the first victims.
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