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Top Stories: Immigration Advocates Protest ICE And Tarrant County Partnership

Christopher Connelly / KERA News

The top local stories this evening from KERA News:

Last year, Tarrant County signed an agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to help the federal agency detain undocumented immigrants.  On Thursday, that partnership was at the center of a forum hosted by the Fort Worth Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and as KERA’s Christopher Connelly reports, it was also a cause for protest.


 
Other stories this evening:
 

  • In 1968, NASA launched Apollo 8,  the first manned spacecraft to orbit the Moon and return to Earth. In this week’s Art&Seek Artist Spotlight, the Verdigris Ensemble – a new North Texas choral group – takes reporter Hady Mawajdeh on an interstellar journey inspired by that trip nearly 50 years ago.

 You can listen to North Texas stories weekdays at 8:22 a.m. and 6:20 p.m. on KERA 90.1 FM.

Gus Contreras is a digital producer and reporter at KERA News. Gus produces the local All Things Considered segment and reports on a variety of topics from, sports to immigration. He was an intern and production assistant for All Things Considered in Washington D.C.