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Know, community spread? i guess you could call it community spread along there along the border at del rio because there are thousands of people there. are any of these folks being vaccinated, and might they be vaccinated before they go to haiti? >> so we are not vaccinating them at this time. what we have done as part of the surge of resources is dedicate the department of health and human services personnel to the location to address the medical needs of these individuals. and as i referenced earlier, we're also bringing in resources from the american red cross. this is really an extraordina...

He wouldn't worry. those are the stories we're hearing about. are we witnessing, in your view, a humanitarian crisis right now at that point of the southern border? >> jim, thank you very much for having me on the show. we certainly are experiencing a challenging situation. but we are surging resources, and we have a multiprong approach to this. we have, for example, worked with the american red ross to bring in supplies and much-needed resources to the population. we have worked with the world central kitchen to bring in meals for them. we've surged approximately 600 agents so that we can gai...

If Cesar Chavez were alive today, he'd be fighting for Latino voters but also African Americans and Asian Americans and members of the LGBTQ community -- anyone marginalized by efforts

" " Delores Huerta in front of a painting of Cesar Chavez at United Farm Workers (UFW) headquarters in Keene, California. Annie Wells/Getty Images More than 50 years ago, a determined young woman stepped up and created the iconic slogan " ¡Sí, se puede!" ("Yes, we can!") that would lift up the voices of the voiceless and change the state of labor in the United States forever. That woman, civil rights activist Dolores Huerta, would go on to co-found the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) with Cesar Chavez. The NFWA later became the United Farm Workers of America (UFW) and, as vi...

  LONDON, ONT. -- Twelve-year-old Kyla Ross led the charge on Tuesday by becoming one of the first in her age group to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. “I went in, I went through a lot of processes and then I finally got the vaccine.” The Middlesex-London region, along with the province, expanded vaccine eligibility to youth ages 12-17 years old on Sunday. Kyla received her first dose at the Earl Nichols Recreation Centre in south London on Tuesday morning. It is one of two sites administering the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to that age group, with the other site located at the Nor...