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Biden Ends Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ Rule, and a Border Camp Empties Bloomberg 3/1/2021 Michael Smith and Naureen Malik (Bloomberg Businessweek) -- For 10 months, Francisco Caal lived with hundreds of other asylum seekers in a tent city across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas, forced by former President Donald Trump to wait there for the U.S. government to decide his fate. He’d fled Guatemala with his wife, Jeannethe Trujillo, he says, after he endured death threats and a bullet in the gut, the couple fearing for their lives. But when they reached the U.S. bo...

They risked Covid, cartels — now U.S. asylum-seekers in Mexico place hope on Biden Gabe Gutierrez and Suzanne Gamboa © Provided by NBC News MATAMOROS, Mexico — Angelica Matos, who fled Venezuela, where her husband was tortured and jailed, has endured fears of violence and the spread of Covid-19, all in the hope that the United States would again open its doors to asylum-seekers after the Trump administration's restrictive policies. Others who had similar hopes gave up. But after a year and a half of waiting in Mexico, Matos is clinging to a kernel of possibility that the...

Gaston County Schools continues to lead the state in Career and Technical Education, but the school district recently reached another milestone. Based on CTE data from the 2019-20 school year, Gaston County Schools not only achieved the highest number of credentials earned by students in North Carolina, but also achieved the highest percentage of students who earned more than one credential in a particular trade. It’s the first time a school district earned both top rankings in the same school year, according to the state Board of Education. In a nutshell, a credential represents a workforc...