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Alexa Ura
Alexa Ura reported for The Texas Tribune from 2013 to 2023. She covered the complex dynamics of race, ethnicity, wealth, poverty and power and how they are shaping the future of Texas and Texans, in the long and short term. Alexa started at the Tribune as a reporting intern before graduating from the University of Texas at Austin and joining the staff full time. Originally from Laredo on the Texas-Mexico border, she is a native Spanish speaker and is based in Austin.
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Demographics
Syrians Small Fraction of Refugees Reaching Texas
Federal resettlement numbers show a refugee population in Texas that is mostly from Myanmar — which the U.S. State Department still classifies as Burma — and Iraq, with most living in the state’s major metropolitan areas.
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Judge: No Hearing This Week in Refugee Case
A federal judge in Dallas said Monday it will be several weeks before he takes up a case in which Texas is suing the federal government and a refugee nonprofit over Syrian refugees, according to a lawyer connected to the suit.
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Demographics
21 Syrian Refugees to Arrive in Texas Next Week
Twenty-one Syrian refugees — including a dozen children — are set to be resettled next week in Dallas and Houston, according to the federal government. Texas had filed a lawsuit seeking to block the arrival of refugees from that country.
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Texas Sues to Block Syrian Refugees
Texas has taken its fight against the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the state to federal court, filing suit against the federal government and a refugee resettlement nonprofit.
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Demographics
Abbott Holding the Line on Syrian Refugees
After unsuccessfully demanding that private resettlement groups stop helping Syrian refugees move to Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott’s administration is now insisting that the federal government turn over background information on them.
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Health care
Despite Legal Threats, Refugee Nonprofit Says It Will Still Resettle Syrians
A nonprofit organization that resettles refugees in the United States says it will move forward with the placement of Syrian refugees in Texas despite warnings from officials in the Lone Star State not to do so.
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Demographics
As Texas Population Grows, More Languages are Spoken at Home
As the state’s demographics shift, the number of languages spoken in Texas households is growing. So are the challenges associated with providing educational services to an increasingly diverse state population.
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Health care
Planned Parenthood Sues Texas Over Removal from Medicaid Program
Planned Parenthood’s Texas affiliates on Monday filed a federal lawsuit to keep state health officials from booting them from the Medicaid program.
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Demographics
Halt All Refugee Resettlement, Two Texas Congressmen Say
As Republicans push to temporarily freeze admissions of Syrian refugees into the U.S., U.S. Reps. Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, and Brian Babin, R-Woodville, on Wednesday called for a temporary suspension of all refugee resettlement efforts.
