by Jay Root and Shannon Najmabadi, The Texas Tribune Oct. 27, 2017 When Melinda Sandlin walked out of Discount Furniture in Austin in late 2014, she was sure the store had put her on a payment plan to buy a new bedroom suite worth $2,750. A year later, after realizing…

• IDRA Newsletter • October 2017 • IDRA joined former state Sen. Gonzalo Barrientos Jr. and many others recently at the installation of a historical marker to commemorate the 1948 Delgado vs. Bastrop case that ended legal segregation of Mexican Americans in Texas. To commemorate this historic event, on September…

By: Roy L. Johnson, M.S. • IDRA Newsletter • October 2017 Over the past five years, the overall high school attrition rate in Texas has ranged from 24 percent to 25 percent. After inching up by 1 percentage point from 24 percent in 2014-15 to 25 percent in 2015-16, the…

By: Paula Johnson, M.A. • IDRA Newsletter • October 2017 October is National Dropout Prevention Month. Two out of 10 students face the life-changing decision of dropping out of school. Students do not arrive at this predicament overnight. Many factors are influential over time in pushing students out the door….

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2017 A 34 year old female El Salvadoran undocumented immigrant gave birth to a baby at the Fort Duncan Regional Medical Center on Wednesday, October 25, 2017 in Eagle Pass, Texas after crossing the International Bridge from Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico….

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2017 The Second Annual Maverick County Hospital District’s Health and Wellness Expo will be held on Wednesday, November 1, 2017, from 2 P.M. to 7 P.M. at the City of Eagle Pass International Center for Trade, 3295 Bob Rogers Drive in…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2017 A single 18 wheeler tractor-trailer rollover accident on U.S. Highway 277 North about two miles north of Quemado, Maverick County, Texas on Thursday, October 26, 2017 at approximately 9:30 A.M. injured two people, including the driver and a passenger. The…

by Patrick Svitek, The Texas Tribune Oct. 26, 2017 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the federal government over a law that seeks to keep Native American children from being separated from their families. Paxton filed a lawsuit Wednesday in federal district court arguing that the Indian Child Welfare…

by Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune Oct. 26, 2017 U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Thursday that it has completed a major step toward construction of the Trump administration’s planned wall on the southern border with Mexico. In a statement, the federal agency said that it has completed construction of…

by Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune Oct. 26, 2017 Congressman Joaquin Castro joined a chorus of immigrant rights and civil liberty groups Thursday in calling for the federal government to release an undocumented 10-year old girl who was has been placed in an immigration facility following surgery in Texas. The…