Martha Mendoza
LATEST ARTICLES BY Martha Mendoza
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Labor
Hospital suspends nurses after they refuse COVID-19 duties over lack of PPE
April 16, 2020They are among hundreds of doctors, nurses, and other health care workers across the country who say they’ve been asked to work without adequate protection.
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World
Worse than Flint: Canadians face widespread lead contamination
November 4, 2019Hundreds of thousands of Canadians have been unwittingly exposed to high levels of lead in their drinking water.
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U.S.
Trump administration seeks to privatize migrant child detention camps
October 3, 2019Sheltering migrant children has become a growing business for the Florida-based government contractor, as the number of minors in government custody has swollen to record levels over the past two years.
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U.S.
Girl recalls abuse in Texas border station
July 2, 2019She was one of hundreds of migrant children who have been held this year in holding cells at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection station.
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News
‘Moral disaster’ unfolding in child migrant detention centers
December 20, 2018Decades after the U.S. stopped institutionalizing kids because large and crowded orphanages were causing lasting trauma, it is happening again.
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News
Locking up immigrant children is now a billion-dollar industry
July 13, 2018Currently, more than 11,800 children, from a few months old to 17, are housed in nearly 90 facilities in 15 states.
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