Stella M. Chávez
Immigration/Demographics ReporterStella M. Chávez is KERA’s immigration/demographics reporter. Her journalism roots run deep.
She spent a decade and a half in newspapers – including seven years at The Dallas Morning News, where she covered education and won the Livingston Award for National Reporting, which is given annually to the best journalists across the country under age 35. The award-winning entry was “Yolanda’s Crossing,” a seven-part DMN series she co-wrote that reconstructs the 5,000-mile journey of a young Mexican sexual-abuse victim from a small Oaxacan village to Dallas.
For the last two years, she worked for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,where she was part of the agency’s outreach efforts on the Affordable Care Act and ran the regional office’s social media efforts.
-
Police accuse Timothy George Simpkins of opening fire in a classroom Wednesday at Timberview High School in Arlington. Two people were shot and two others suffered unspecified injuries. He was jailed on three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. -
More than four dozen workers have died from excessive heat in Texas, according to an investigation by Columbia Journalism Investigations, NPR and The Texas Newsroom.
-
Across Texas, workers who spend their days toiling in the heat are dying. Many of those deaths could have been prevented.
-
Without a legal standard setting out what must be done to prevent heat deaths, workplace regulators have a hard time making violations stick.
-
Local refugee resettlement agencies are helping Afghans who recently arrived in North Texas and offer ways the public can help too.
-
Heat has killed hundreds of workers in the U.S., many in construction or agriculture, an investigation by NPR and Columbia Journalism Investigations found. Federal standards might have prevented them.
-
Immigrant advocates say DACA was only a Band-Aid. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen's recent order to halt new DACA applications puts the pressure on Congress to act.
-
From 2018 to 2019, more than 48,000 new immigrants moved to the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according to a new analysis of Census data by the group New American Economy.
-
All eight victims were taken to local hospitals and were in stable condition early Sunday morning.
-
From a Honduran teen's journey to the U.S. to Gov. Greg Abbott's plans for a wall, here’s a rundown of border and immigration news from Texas and beyond.
-
Migrant teen Oscar made the difficult trek to the U.S. from Honduras to escape the gangs and pursue his dreams of being a pediatrician. An unaccompanied minor, his arrival in the U.S. was complicated by an order from Gov. Abbott to yank state licenses for permanent shelter for these children.
-
Dhaval Babu is one of many temporary visa workers who was unable to re-enter the U.S. during the pandemic because of a temporary travel ban. After nearly 15 months in India, he and his family are back in Texas, but their return has been bittersweet.
