Bekah McNeel
Correspondent at The 74
reporter | nail biter | wife | mom | Author of “Bringing Up Kids When Church Lets You Down” and “This is Going to Hurt” (Eerdmans 2024)
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2 weeks ago |
texasmonthly.com | Bekah McNeel
Ice Villa, a 25-year old rapper from San Antonio, was disappointed that she had been out of town last week when around two hundred people gathered at city hall to protest recent raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. So she decided to host a protest of her own. “I figured, whoever wants to pop out, cool,” she said. She called the event “Take Back the Alamo” and posted it on social media.
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3 weeks ago |
texasmonthly.com | Bekah McNeel
Julie Hinaman had questions. Lots of them.
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1 month ago |
texasmonthly.com | Bekah McNeel
After 36 years in office, Austin County’s Travis Koehn is hanging up his suit and tie, but not his harmonica. It was the last case on the docket of the last criminal court of the month in Austin County, about ninety minutes west of Houston. The gallery was empty, and the defendant was an undocumented immigrant from Honduras. He spoke only Spanish, and the only translator available was his defense attorney. The defendant, who quickly became emotional, was ready to take the plea deal.
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2 months ago |
sojo.net | Bekah McNeel
From the first day of his administration, President Donald Trump has sought to end birthright citizenship, meaning that being born on U.S. soil would no longer be sufficient for establishing permanent legal status in the country. So far, three different judges have blocked the executive order Trump issued on Jan. 20, which the administration has appealed to the Supreme Court.
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2 months ago |
sojo.net | Bekah McNeel
Steve Hoyt didn’t go to the Amecet children’s home in Soroti, Uganda, looking for a child to adopt. The missionary, engineer, and father of two went to the home for orphaned and abandoned children run by the Christian organization Youth With A Mission, to check on a child as a favor for an employee. While he was there, he noticed a baby — he guessed she was about 18 months old — languishing despite the care of the nurses. She wasn’t as young as she looked, they told him.
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