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Carmen is a national producer based in Los Angeles with a focus on U.S. immigration. Before joining Yahoo News, she worked as a multimedia journalist in Arizona covering social issues in the Latinx community. Carmen is a proud border town girl born in Nogales, Ariz., and raised in Tucson.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has taken up the issue now because Title 42, the Trump-era policy that allows Customs and Border Protection officials to expel migrants back to Mexico, will soon be ending.
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Migrant injuries and deaths increase at an alarming rate along Trump's border wall
Doctors in San Diego are seeing migrants arrive daily in the emergency room with life-threatening injuries after attempting to climb over the 30-foot border wall to come into the United States.
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Advocates call out double standard for Black and brown migrants vs. Ukrainian refugees
Immigrant rights advocates are saying that a double standard is being applied at the U.S southern border.
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'We had such a beautiful life': Ukrainian family finds new beginning in America after fleeing war
Like many other refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine, Valeria Skorovohach and her three young children traveled thousands of miles through numerous countries to reach the United States.
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U.S. veteran volunteers to fight in Ukraine: 'A continuation of what we signed on for'
A U.S. Army veteran is heading back into the war zone more than a decade after his retirement. Matthew Parker was prompted to take action after hearing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s plea for people with combat experience to stand with his country.
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Bay Area nonprofit lends helping hand to Ukrainian refugees
For Igor Markov, a Ukrainian American living in Mountain View, Calif., watching Russia invade his country has been heartbreaking — so he and his team are stepping up to the plate to help as the refugee crisis following Russia’s invasion grows.
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How a Planned Parenthood in El Paso is dealing with the Texas abortion ban
The Latinas operating a Planned Parenthood clinic in El Paso, Texas, are pushing back against the state’s new abortion ban. The law is considered by many to be the most restrictive in the country.
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7 months after disappearance, family of missing geologist still clinging to hope
It’s been seven months since Daniel Robinson, a 25-year-old geologist, was last seen at his work site in Buckeye, Ariz., about 50 miles southwest of Phoenix. Since then, Daniel’s father, David Robinson, has worked tirelessly to search for his son.
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Calif. medical workers fight to bridge the Latino COVID-19 vaccination gap
Health care workers in California’s predominantly Latino neighborhoods are fighting to bridge the COVID-19 vaccination gap in their community. Meanwhile, concerns grow over the continued low vaccination rates among Latinos in the state.
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DACA recipient travels more than 900 miles to reunite with father after 8-year separation
The DACA-designated daughter of a Mexican immigrant father who was deported back to Mazatlán, Mexico, in 2013, has been reunited with her father for the first time in eight years.
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Kentucky workers who survived tornado say candle factory should have been closed that night
Kyanna Parsons-Perez and Andrea Miranda question why they were in the Mayfield Consumer Products candle factory as the threat of tornadoes was present throughout the region.
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Remain in Mexico program for migrants ‘places them in danger,’ say immigration advocates
Immigration advocates and attorneys are voicing frustration with the Biden administration over its court-ordered reimplementation of the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy, saying the enforcement and expansion of a program the administration opposed in court show that the White House isn’t fighting it as aggressively as it might.
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Immigration protections in Build Back Better bill bring hope to DACA recipients
If passed into law, President Biden’s Build Back Better bill would create the largest mass-legalization program for undocumented immigrants in U.S. history. Roughly 7 million of the 11 million unauthorized immigrants currently in the U.S. — including "Dreamers," coronavirus-era essential workers and farmworkers — would be eligible for the new immigration protections.
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Wellness studio becomes a safe haven for Latinx women at a time of high Latinx depression rates
In 2018, Kat Novoa founded Babes of Wellness in South Los Angeles, a safe space that provides women the chance to explore what it means to build physical strength while simultaneously healing generational emotional trauma.
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Effects of extreme heat on farmworkers in the Coachella Valley expose the 'climate gap'
For residents in the eastern Coachella Valley, a rural area in Riverside County, Calif., the rapid increase in extreme heat is causing farmworkers to become ill and even costing some their lives.
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Single mother expelled to Mexico recalls the lessons learned from her journey
In June, with only the clothes on her back, a gallon of water and a little food, 49-year-old Maria Torres, a Mexican immigrant, left her children behind with her sister and crossed the U.S.’s southern border to begin her trek north through the Sonoran Desert in hopes of reaching her family in Phoenix.
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'My brother was a fighter': One man’s mission to find peace after his family died crossing the southern border
Ely Ortiz — who emigrated from the state of Oaxaca in the 1980s to San Diego — is on a mission: searching for the remains of people who died while attempting to cross the border through the Arizona and California deserts, and attempting to rescue those who are stranded but still alive.
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Mayor of Arizona border town blasts Republican governors who blame COVID spike on asylum seekers
Gerardo Sanchez, the mayor of San Luis, Ariz., has heard enough from Republican governors who have sought to blame the latest spike of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. on migrants crossing the border seeking asylum.