Stella M. Chávez
StellaChávezisKERA’seducation reporter/blogger. Her journalism roots run deep: She spent a decade and a half in newspapers – including seven years atThe Dallas Morning News, where she covered education and won the Livingston Award for National Reporting, which is given annually to the best journalists across the country under age 35. The award-winning entry was “Yolanda’s Crossing,” a seven-partDMN series she co-wrote that reconstructs the 5,000-mile journey of a young Mexican sexual-abuse victim from a smallOaxacanvillage to Dallas. For the last two years, she worked for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,where she was part of the agency’s outreach efforts on the Affordable Care Act and ran the regional office’s social media efforts.
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Gov. Greg Abbott asked donors to help pay for busing migrants. The response isn't covering the billsAfter Texas Gov. Greg Abbott launched a controversial program to bus migrants to other states, he appealed to private donors to help cover the costs. But contributions to the so-called "Border Transportation Funding" are well short of the $12 million that's been spent. -
Almost 1 out of every 5 Texans was uninsured in 2021. That's according to the Census Bureau’s 2021 American Community Survey 1-year estimates. -
Ellis County is the latest in a list of Texas counties making similar declarations, citing increased border crossings, smuggling operations and drug trafficking. Critics say the language fuels anti-immigrant sentiments. -
President Biden is traveling to Uvalde, Texas, to mourn with the community. It's his second visit to a community that's been devastated by a mass shooting in less than two weeks.
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Immigrant and human rights advocates are troubled by the Biden administration’s decision to expand its "Migration Protection Protocols" to include asylum seekers of any country in the Western Hemisphere other than Mexico. -
Political observers say the state's growing Latino population is why more education efforts are needed to help Latinos understand how redistricting affects their vote. -
More than four dozen workers have died from excessive heat in Texas, according to an investigation by Columbia Journalism Investigations, NPR and The Texas Newsroom. -
Heat has killed hundreds of workers in the U.S., many in construction or agriculture, an investigation by NPR and Columbia Journalism Investigations found. Federal standards might have prevented them. -
Immigrant advocates say DACA was only a Band-Aid. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen's recent order to halt new DACA applications puts the pressure on Congress to act. -
LULAC’s request comes after Gov. Greg Abbott said migrant children are being brought to the U.S. by human traffickers or being used as drug mules.
