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Tag Archives: Scripps Howard Foundation Wire

Without documents, immigrant students struggle to succeed

August 17, 2012

Also: Deferred action gives hope

Chelsea Boozer

Migration Policy Institute analysis of 2006-08 and 2008-10 census data. (Graphic by Matt Wettengel)

 Scripps Howard Foundation Wire

The bus to the University of California at Los Angeles campus took two hours to travel a distance that would take 20 minutes by car.

Sofia Campos took this bus ride twice a day during her first two years of college. As an undocumented immigrant born in Lima, Peru, and brought to the US when she was 6 years old, Campos can’t legally obtain a driver’s license.

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Texas mariachi group performs at Smithsonian festival

July 06, 2012

The University of Texas-Pan American Mariachi Aztlán has been performing for 25 years. Many of its former members are teaching at middle and high schools in the Rio Grande Valley. The festival, which takes place on the national mall, runs through this weekend. (SHFWire photo by Charles Scudder)

Charles Scudder

Jose Rangel, a guitarist and vocalist performs with University of Texas-Pan American’s Mariachi Aztlán at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. (SHFWire photo by Charles Scudder)

Scripps Howard Foundation Wire

WASHINGTON – Mariachi is in Francisco Loera’s blood.

His uncle and father were musicians in Mexico. His grandfather was a mariachi. His grandmother still plays mariachi. He has been playing mariachi guitar since he was a student at McAllen High School.

“It’s just who I am,” said Leora, 41. “Once it gets into you it doesn’t go out. You cannot leave it. It’s that kind of thing. It represents who I am.”

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Bill would increase Border Patrol access to sensitive federal lands, national parks

June 22, 2012

The Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park marks the border between the US and Mexico. Border Patrol agents will have more access to national park land in a bill that passed the House this week. (Photo courtesy of NPS/Eric Leonard)

Measure crucial to controlling border crime, DHS says

Charles Scudder

Scripps Howard Foundation Wire

WASHINGTON – The sweeping vistas of Big Bend National Park may be breathtaking, but the park’s proximity to the U.S.-Mexico border makes the deep canyons of the Rio Grande kindling for political feuds.

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Thursday, May 23, 2013

  • Immigration reform

    President Obama speaks on the need for comprehensive immigration reform and outlines a proposal .

  • Attack of the drones

    Reported from Holloman Air Force Base, NM

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