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Dozens more boarded several charter buses outside the shelter Thursday. Aguirre said he knows Haitian migrants who were released were issued orders to report to immigration officials or court, but the process still seemed easier than it had been for his family and neighbors. I see those people with their kids outside the shelter. He worried that once the Haitians were released into the U.

Aguirre said his neighbors were scared at first by the migrant influx in recent months, but that Gov. State troopers this week parked their SUVs in a line along the Rio Grande, a virtual wall blocking new migrants from joining the camp.

Late Thursday, a convoy of troopers drove through town, lights flashing and sirens blaring. National Guard troops were also stationed along the river, including where Abbott erected a chain-link and barbed-wire fence earlier this year — the Texas wall. Chuck Champion lives in a mobile home next to the fence, which he supports, along with the increased deployment of law enforcement.

But the show of force stunned migrant advocates who traveled to Del Rio from Southern California to aid the Haitians on Thursday. Nobody else in the country has to deal with this.

That is not public safety. One plus, she said: Because the Border Patrol has been so overwhelmed processing the Haitian migrants, they closed checkpoints on the local highways where drivers would normally be stopped and questioned about their status. A graduate of Harvard College, she spent a year as Middle East bureau chief before returning as Houston bureau chief. Opponents of critical race theory seek to flip school boards. Facebook whistleblower says the platform is making online hate worse.

All Sections. She folded clothes on a recent afternoon and thought about her future. Another motel dweller, Erik Ausband arrived around two months ago. He does odd jobs and has advertised for carpentry work on websites for gig workers.

He lived there until the spring, then began living out of his Hyundai Santa Fe. He does a lot of jobs around the complex — fixes shower heads and AC units. Inside Room 24, he has a workbench, drills and a ladder. A case of Budweiser rests near a refrigerator. His pug, Roady, roams the property yelping at other dogs. On a recent evening, as cars whirred past on Fremont Street, the neon sign of the motel — save for the darkened letters M and O — lighted up the parking lot.

Ausband was gone, but Roady yipped from inside the room. For the last three nights, Crandall had to call Las Vegas Metropolitan Police for incidents involving customers not tied to the nonprofit. First, a man had a mental health crisis and broke the television, then a woman slapped her boyfriend, and on the third night a woman had tried to solicit sex from her room.

Along Fremont, a group of young men marched toward downtown in collared shirts and jeans carrying cans of beer. The Strip glowed in the distance. It was still early and Crandall settled into a lawn chair. He took another pull from the vape and waited for what was ahead. Here is the first. Kurtis Lee is a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. He writes news features, narratives and profiles on an array of topics — race, criminal justice, immigration, income inequality, the 2nd Amendment.

Lee has filed reports from the unrest in Ferguson, Mo. Prior to joining The Times in August , Lee worked at the Denver Post where he covered state and national politics.

Francine Orr has been a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times since Previously, she was as a staff photographer at the Kansas City Star. While there, she learned how to be a quiet observer and gained a love for stories. Orr has focused on public health and poverty issues in Africa, India and the United States. In Los Angeles, she has concentrated on the growing homeless crisis since She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature photography in Opponents of critical race theory seek to flip school boards.

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