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Women in deep East Texas drive over an hour to give birth after the last obstetrics unit in the area closed in 2019. But if closing the unit was hard, reopening it is proving nearly impossible.

In conservative Sabine County, it’s hard for teens to access contraception or sex education beyond lessons on abstinence - leading to one of the highest teen birth rates in the state.

“The reality is she’s gone, and the only thing left now is the cross with her name,” she said. “My little girl is gone.”

Some 160 miles (250 km) from the US-Mexico #border in San Antonio, 46 migrants were discovered to be dead on the back of a tractor-trailer last Monday in one of the country's most deadly incidents of #humansmuggling in US history.

US Border: Unaccompanied kids being held by Border Patrol for 77 hours on average CNN 3/3/2021 By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN © Jinitzail Hernández/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images A Customs and Border Protection vehicle patrols in the Rio Grande Valley Sector of Texas on Aug. 20, 2019. Migrant children crossing the US-Mexico border alone are staying in Border Patrol custody for longer than three days on average, overwhelming capacity at border facilities and indicating a crisis takin...