Author: Gabriela Torres
Rewrite a fully new long article using the information from Only have a minute? Listen instead President Donald Trump has hinted at the possibility of talking with Cuban officials about easing punitive measures and establishing avenues for travel and trade. As a growing economic entity just a short hop across the Gulf of Mexico, the Rio Grande Valley could be in a position to take advantage of any thaw in the decades-long freeze in interactions between our two countries. Valley officials should monitor any developments and look for opportunities that could benefit this region, at both the supply and receiving…
Rewrite a fully new long article using the information from Migrants gather at Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley on Monday, July 26, 2021, in McAllen. (Valerie Gonzalez | The Monitor) A double surge has overwhelmed the Rio Grande Valley as the flow of recent immigrants has exceeded the capacity of shelters to take them and new cases of COVID-19 once again make public interactions a hazardous proposition. The Catholic Charities Respite Center in McAllen, the largest intake facility for migrants in the region, reached capacity last week and had to stop receiving migrants who were being released by Homeland Security…
Rewrite a fully new long article using the information from Regarding “A $150M contract for migrant kids’ lawyers goes to a Trump-linked Texas firm, raising concerns,” (Aug. 5): Until recently, over 100 nonprofit organizations provided legal services to thousands of unaccompanied migrant children nationwide under a contract with the Office of Refugee Resettlement. These organizations included Houston’s Cabrini Center and KIND. The Trump administration has not paid these organizations since December and has now given the contract to Burke Law Group in Houston. That small firm has two lawyers who include immigration law in their list of practice areas. However,…
Rewrite a fully new long article using the information from BY RABBI J. CLAUDIO KOGAN One of the ongoing phenomena that our Rio Grande Valley has experienced in the past several years is the migration of immigrants from Central America into the United States — often through our region. We have witnessed thousands of men, women and children crossing our borders searching for a better future. And their quest to improve their lives has drawn national, even international consternation. The immigration debate that this movement has spurred reminded me of why I decided to move to the Rio Grande Valley…
Rewrite a fully new long article using the information from Guest post by Elsemieke van Osch, PhD-Researcher in Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven, Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre (IMMRC). She studies families’ trajectories through the asylum regime in Belgium and the Netherlands. Her research analyses how families experience struggles over in/exclusion in the various phases of their asylum procedure, paying particular attention to the ways in which normative understandings of the family become entangled in these struggles. Review of Borders of Belonging: Struggle and Solidarity in Mixed-Status Immigrant Families, by Heide Castañeda (Stanford University Press, 2019). Borders…
Rewrite a fully new long article using the information from Lyford Elementary fifth-grade teacher Enrique Ayala was named one of the Rio Grande Valley’s teachers of the year by the Region One Education Service Center. (Courtesy: Region One Education Service Center) Region One Education Service Center (ESC) announced the teachers of the year last weekend, with Lyford Elementary fifth-grade teacher Enrique Ayala and McAllen ISD Homer J. Morris Middle School sixth-grade math teacher Alissa Shirah receiving the honors. The two teachers were part of the 66 nominees representing 36 school systems at the annual Teacher of the Year ceremony on…
Rewrite a fully new long article using the information from The first year for the Rio Grande Valley’s MPO has been an auspicious one indeed. The Metropolitan Planning Organization, which is the merger of three separate Valley entities, embodies a regional approach to infrastructure and transportation planning for South Texas, and it already has garnered the top award from the national Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations. The AMPO awarded the new Valley group the Outstanding Transportation Management Award for its efforts to facilitate mobility in the region. The national group oversees more than 300 MPOs nationwide and their mobility projects…
Rewrite a fully new long article using the information from Valley View’s baserunner Jocelyn Jimenez (3) is tagged out by Palmview’s Bianca Fernandez (6) during the 3rd inning of a softball game at Palmview High school softball field on Tuesday, April,27 ,2021. (Delcia Lopez/The Monitor | [email protected]) MISSION — La Joya Palmview’s Bianca Fernandez stepped up to bat during the bottom of the third needing to capitalize on her second plate appearance of the night. The Lobos’ senior leader walked into the batter’s box after a line drive straight at Valley View first baseman Ariana Rosales helped the Tigers turn…
Rewrite a fully new long article using the information from Only have a minute? Listen instead The oil and gas industries are among the most wealthy and powerful in Texas. They own almost everything, including politicians, including our imaginations, especially RGV elected officials. Some of these officials are so dazzled by that oil and gas wealth that they are considering tax breaks for projects like the Texas LNG and the Rio Grande LNG projects proposed at the Port of Brownsville. As if any petroleum or fossil fuel project needs tax breaks. Spoiler alert: They really don’t. LNG is liquefied natural…
Rewrite a fully new long article using the information from The selection of the Rio Grande Valley as a site for development and launches of SpaceX rockets has always been celebrated as a boon for the area. Some people have raised concerns about the loss of prime fishing spots and possible environmental effects, valid input that reminds us all to monitor the operations and insist on the highest precautions to ensure the greatest safety and least environmental disruption possible. So far, those concerns have largely been addressed, and the news seems to get even better from the Valley’s involvement with…