Stella M. Chávez
Immigration/Demographics ReporterStella M. Chávez is KERA’s immigration/demographics reporter. Her journalism roots run deep.
She spent a decade and a half in newspapers – including seven years at The 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-part DMN series she co-wrote that reconstructs the 5,000-mile journey of a young Mexican sexual-abuse victim from a small Oaxacan village 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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The Biden Administration has extended Temporary Protected Status for more than 300,000 residents from four countries, but thousands more have no protections.
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Jesse Tafalla Jr., a Dallas resident and longtime advocate for the arts, LGBTQ rights and Latino issues, died this week at the age of 60.
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Refugee Services of Texas, the state’s largest resettlement agency, has closed after 45 years. KERA’s Stella Chavez spoke with Justin Martin about what this means.
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Refugee Services of Texas, the state’s largest resettlement agency, is shutting down after 45 years. RST made the announcement on Friday.
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A Dallas church is preparing to receive five times more migrants after a pandemic-era health policy known as Title 42 expired late Thursday.
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Refugee Services of Texas, one of the main refugee resettlement agencies in the state, is closing offices, cutting staff and pausing its work with new refugee arrivals.
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Oak Lawn United Methodist Church will receive migrants five days a week instead of weekly after the pandemic-era border policy known as Title 42 ends.
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April 30 marked what’s known as the Fall of Saigon. That’s the day the capital of South Vietnam fell to the communist regime of North Vietnam in 1975.
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Several bills filed in this legislative session are targeting immigrants and foreign nationals. And that has members of these communities worried.
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A growing number of people who identify as Latino or Hispanic identify as multiracial. That’s according to 2020 Census data.
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Luis Zayas, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, is author of the book “Through Iceboxes and Kennels: How Immigration Detention Harms Children and Families.”
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Texas is expected to receive twice as many refugees this fiscal year than last fiscal year — A Fort Worth group has opened a new office in Dallas to help meet those needs.