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Worries rising about depression and other issues among migrant teens in Dallas emergency shelter Dianne Solis, The Dallas Morning News © Courtesy Office of Rep. Henry Cuellar/TNS Henry Cuellar, D- Texas, shows detainees in a Customs and Border Protection overflow facility in Donna, Texas, on March 20, 2021. DALLAS — Conditions for about 2,000 migrant teen boys at the temporary emergency shelter in downtown Dallas are worrying advocates and former contract employees. The boys at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center suffer from a lack of fresh air and sunlight, depres...

Worries rising about depression and other issues among migrant teens in Dallas emergency shelter “The goal is to get those kids out of there as soon as possible,” says lawyer-advocate. Charter buses carrying migrant teenagers arrive under Federal Protective Service escort at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas on Wednesday, March 17, 2021.(Lola Gomez) Conditions for about 2,000 migrant teen boys at the temporary emergency shelter in downtown Dallas are worrying advocates and former contract employees. The boys at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center suffer from a la...

Can Jews Agree on Welcoming Refugees and Immigrants? We cannot sit out this crisis. Our families were refugees. Our history is a refugee story. “For you were once slaves in the land of Egypt.” During Passover 2021, any Jew who knew the difference between charoset and a hole in a bagel probably heard this phrase a dozen times. So many times, in fact, with so many associations — from salt tears to lying reclined and eating hurried bread — that it is easy to forget the phrase is part of a larger mitzvah, one so central to Judaism that the Talmud reminds us that its mentioned in the Torah...

Daniel O’Rourke died on March 15, 2021, at the Chautauqua County Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Dunkirk. Dan was born on Dec. 31, 1931, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. He was the son of the late John and Rose (Kielty) O’Rourke. Dan was ordained a Catholic priest in the Franciscan Order in 1959. After he left the Franciscans, he married his wife Marie in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Sept. 18, 1971. He then worked as executive director of the Human Rights Department for the City of Worcester, Massachusetts. His principal functions there were to investigate mediate and arbitrate complaints of discrimin...

WashPost’s Bump Makes Wild Push for COVID Stimulus; His Own Paper Undercuts Him Posted on Washington Post national correspondent Philip Bump made a wild argument to try to pressure Congress to pass a massive $1.9 trillion stimulus bill that his own newspaper said may be “mismatched.” Bump’s March 4 story, updated March 5, kicked off with a gross headline: “While the Senate read the coronavirus relief bill, nearly 900 Americans may have died from the virus.” Bump decried how the Senate vote on the bill was delayed because “Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) decided to force the chamber ...