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THIS WEEK: For border residents, activists and journalists, information about Trump’s impending border wall is a rare commodity. Documents obtained by the Observer dispel some of the darkness surrounding the government’s plans. New maps show that the president aims to build his wall through 162 tracts of private land in Roma, Rio Grande City and La Grulla, possibly razing a number of homes in the process.
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- Last year, Texas revealed for the first time how many teen parents are in the care of the Department of Family and Protective Services.
- According to the most recent figures, 550 girls out of 5,226, or almost 11 percent, were either pregnant or parenting. Girls aged 13 to 17 in foster care are nearly five times as likely as their peers to become pregnant, according to an April report by the nonprofit Texans Care for Children.
- Judges, foster parents, caseworkers and academics described a system that discourages adults from sharing information with foster youth that would help them avoid unplanned pregnancies.
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Lt. Governor William P. Hobby, Jr. on the campaign trail with Ann Richards, ca. 1982. From the William Hobby Family Papers, UT Austin’s Briscoe Center.
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