Zahira Torres

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Carrie Levine @levinecarrie

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Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees to a maximum security prison in El Salvador were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws. https://t.co/C0gr8PdlUi via @TexasTribune

The Trump administration knew the vast majority of the 238 Venezuelan immigrants sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador had not been convicted of crimes in the U.S. beforehttps://www.propublica.org/article/trump-el-salvador-deportees-criminal-convictions-cecot-venezuela

RT @lomikriel: "Everyone's afraid that there’s going to come a point in time where you don’t know where one agency stops & the next begins,…

Important piece by @lomikriel and @micarosenberg about the evolution of a federal entity, tasked with protecting immigrant children, that is becoming an enforcement arm, according to current and former staffers https://t.co/IlgL4Ajpms via @TexasTribune

RT @micarosenberg: Current and former officials told @lomikriel and I that the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which cares for unaccompani…

This is why I love El Paso. A city that lives love, not hate. Relatives of those slain by a mass murderer hugged him. “If you would have come before to get to know our culture, you would have experienced what warm and good-hearted people us Hispanics are.” https://t.co/csQO1zz960

Such an important read (or reread) now that the Texas House has approved a private school voucher program. Greg Abbott’s School Voucher Crusade Is Three Decades in the Making https://t.co/v55nTiNph6

RT @mgsquires: Although billions of state and federal dollars flow into the majority-Latino communities along the U.S.-Mexico border, many…

RT @Perla_Trevizo: Despite billions of state and federal dollars flowing into communities along the border, many remain among the poorest i…

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Zahira Torres @zahiratorres

Texas is at or near the center of so much of what shapes the country's policies and politics. There is no better place to be an investigative reporter and no better team to be part of. https://t.co/JZsugh80Ht

Texas has incredible local journalists and newsrooms, and we are thrilled to support their reporting on how power is wielded in the state. @KUT @wfaa @HoustonChron @elpasomatters @FortWorthReport 5 Newsroom Partners Join @propublica and @texastribune https://t.co/xWJsgisEKY

RT @jaspscherer: It's official: @KenPaxtonTX announces he's challenging @JohnCornyn in next year's midterms. On w/@IngrahamAngle, Paxton s…

A Texas school board cut chapters on diversity from textbooks approved by the state. One focuses on how to understand and educate diverse learners, saying it “is up to schools and teachers to help every student feel comfortable, accepted and valued." https://t.co/lnG7CI94D2

Texas is at or near the center of so much of what shapes the country's policies and politics. There is no better place to be an investigative reporter and no better team to be part of. https://t.co/JZsugh80Ht

RT @serrano_alej: I've read lots ab. book banning efforts/culture war battles in education, and written a lil bit about it, but the last se…

RT @JinATX: 🧵Since the pandemic, several Texas school boards have seen ideologically driven conservatives win supermajorities. One key, if…