With Not Nearly Enough Workplace Safety Protections, Latino Worker Deaths Are Surging

Latinos have the highest fatality rate. In 2022, 1,248 Latino workers were killed on the job in the U.S., a 57% jump from a decade earlier.
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The Columbia Daily Spectator is doing amazing work covering the Columbia student protests right now.

I got to meet the staff and editor in chief Isabella Ramírez this year and came away so inspired for the future of the industry.

Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers. nola.com/news/politics/…

Ecuadorian immigrant women are working at Brooklyn sweatshops processing tobacco for the joints sold at smoke shops and bodegas around New York. thecity.nyc/2024/02/29/ins…

An exodus of nearly 8 million Venezuelan migrants who have fled poverty and political turmoil is boosting the economies of other countries across South America, two studies published by leading international financial institutions have found. theguardian.com/global-develop…

I wrote about three friends who grew up in Ramallah, and a shooting in Vermont. For NYT Magazine

nytimes.com/2024/02/28/mag…

.Eli Saslow on the border, at an Arizona ranch that is seeing as many as 250 people crossing every day, is every bit as good as you would expect: nytimes.com/2024/02/18/us/…

In response to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico’s press conference this morning:

Nearly 3,000 migrant children were reported missing. Many were never looked for.
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NEW: Records obtained by The Texas Newsroom show that as of Jan. 24, Texas has spent over $148 million to bus migrants to predominantly Democratic cities.

The price tag grows every day.

My latest for NPR: npr.org/2024/02/20/123… #txlege (🧵)