For years, Flores has served as an immigration policy advisor to Democrats at the national level, including President Biden. She talks about what went wrong, and what Democrats should be doing now.
Thanks to everyone who joined our live roundup this morning to discuss stories on The Border Chronicle from this week. Pablo De La Rosa joined us from the Rio Grande Valley, and Todd Miller connected from a remote writer’s-retreat cabin—so he experienced a few connection issues. You can watch a recording of their live discussion above.
This week on The Border Chronicle, Melissa del Bosque spoke with Dora Rodriguez, who fled the death squads in El Salvador during the civil war, about her new memoir, A Daughter of Unforgiving Terrain. She also published a Q&A with Felicia Rangel-Samporano, co-founder of The Sidewalk School, a nonprofit montessori-style educational program for children in the process of migrating on the south side of the Texas-Mexico border. In the Rio Grande Valley, Pablo De La Rosa published a breaking update as SpaceX’s Starship 36 exploded catastrophically on Wednesday night, recounting repeated warnings over the past ten years of just such an event by local environmental justice groups. And Todd Miller reported from Lochiel, Arizona for this year’s Binational Border Happening, a cross-border celebration.
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For years, Flores has served as an immigration policy advisor to Democrats at the national level, including President Biden. She talks about what went wrong, and what Democrats should be doing now.
Melissa del Bosque
