MATAMOROS, Mexico (AP) — Some shelters south of the U.S. border are caring for many more migrants now that the Biden administration stopped stopped considering most asylum requests, while others have yet to see much of a change. The impact appears uneven more than a week after the temporary suspension took effect. Shelters south of […]
Tag: crowding
Anxiety for displaced Palestinians crowding into Gaza-Egypt buffer zone
On the back of a small truck parked along Gaza’s southern border with Egypt, two families were crammed into an open-top shipping container. Originally from Beit Lahia in the north of Gaza, Mariam Abu Eida and her family fled to the south at the explicit urgence of the Israel Defense Forces to escape the fighting […]
Whatever happened to Richland’s plan to build a 3rd high school to ease crowding?
West Richland might not get its own high school for at least another decade. New demographics provided to the Richland School District show that enrollment isn’t growing as rapidly as it was before the COVID pandemic. So a new third comprehensive high school — with a current price tag of at least $255 million — […]