Climate Change
PRI's The World
November 01, 2018
One congressional race that’s become surprisingly close is Texas’ 7th Congressional District in western Houston and its suburbs. It’s been controlled by Republicans since the 1960s when George HW Bush held the seat. But this year, the race, in one of the wealthiest districts in Texas, is a dead heat.
Environment
Global warming will increase poverty in the southern US, a new study says
Living on Earth
July 23, 2017
According to a study published in the journal Science, global warming will devastate the economy in parts of the US in years ahead, if temperatures are allowed to rise unabated.
Books
Forget Dora The Explorer: Where are all the kids books on immigrant communities?
PRI's The World
December 11, 2014
Advocates are pushing for more diversity in children's literature and that includes books about immigrant families.
Business, Economics and Jobs
How do you fight organized crime in Mexico? With small business loans and after-school programs
PRI's The World
January 02, 2014
For the last six years, a little-known infusion of American tax dollars has played a part in the fight against organized crime in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez. Part of the money for the Merida Initiative is used to keep young people out of drug cartels and help boost the economy.
Justice
Why would any parent send their kids on the deadly trip to cross the Mexico-US border? Here's why.
PRI's The World
August 18, 2014
Updated
A young couple from El Salvador explains why they crossed illegally into the US and how rising danger in their homeland forced their children on the dangerous trip north to join them.
Economics
On a Texas college campus, conservative Latinos explain their opposition to DACA
PRI's The World
March 10, 2018
Most Latinos in the US, about 90 percent, support Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. But in Texas and especially in cities that are the closest to the US-Mexico Border, about 24 percent say they would want to end the Obama-era program that provides work permits and deportation protections for undocumented immigrants who were brought the US illegally as children.
Technology
Sudanese American parents look at Ahmed Mohamed and think of their own kids
PRI's The World
September 18, 2015
After a Sudanese American teenager was arrested and detained in Texas for bringing a homemade digital clock to school, Sudanese American parents wonder what Ahmed Mohamed's story means for their kids growing up in the US.
Conflict
I worked at the CDC and if it really wanted to, it could study gun violence
PRI's The World
February 20, 2018
The tragic shooting death of 17 people at a Florida high school is renewing calls for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to research the causes of gun violence. The CDC used to study what triggers mass shootings and how to end gun violence until Congress threatened to cut off funding if research continued. Is it time to revisit?
Conflict
Families that are deported after crossing the border say they return home feeling hopeless and desperate
PRI's The World
September 04, 2014
This year, an increasing number of Central American attempted to enter the US illegally. Now, as many are deported back home, there are concerns that due process was not served while they were held in detention facilities in the United States.
Conflict & Justice
Protests spread north over unaccompanied migrant children coming to 'our town'
PRI's The World
July 21, 2014
At first, there were isolated protests in border states like California and Arizona over relocating migrant children to detention centers while they awaited immigration proceedings. This weekend, anger and protests spread across the US, reaching New Hampshire, Maine, Minnesota and even Alaska.
Lifestyle & Belief
Islamic faith finds a fertile home in the Latin American community
PRI's The World
December 23, 2013
Islam is among the fastest growing religions in the United States, but not ll of the converts are who you'd expect. Among the converts are a growing number of immigrants from Latin America.