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Advocates for immigrants say they still have not found the parents of 545 minors who were separated from their families starting three years ago during President Trump's immigration crackdown at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Texas State Board of Social Workers last week voted unanimously to remove disability, sexual orientation and gender identity from the nondiscrimination clause of its code of conduct.

This week, there's backlash.

Texas advocacy groups and lawmakers are demanding that health officials reverse their decision, which was based solely on a recommendation of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, and criticizing the board for proceeding without seeking input from social workers.

"They didn't question it, and that is particularly disheartening," Will Francis, director of the Texas chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, told USA TODAY.

He added, "The board did not stand up for vulnerable Texans."

HOUSTON – As HISD's schools begin their in-person school year Monday, ‘Safe Walk Home' Northside continues its mission of making the community safe for students who walk to and from school.

The program started in 2017, nearly a year after an 11-year-old student named Josue Flores was tragically stabbed to death on May 17, 2016. Leaders and community members will welcome students as they arrive at school Monday.

When Sylvia Garcia arrived in Houston in 1972, she was intent on finding a way to help people. She'd just graduated from Texas Woman's University in Denton and had driven down in her blue Volkswagen Beetle stuffed with every single thing she owned.

Raised in the small valley town of Palito Blanco, the daughter of a farmer and a house cleaner and sister to nine siblings, Sylvia Garcia was not the first in her Mexican American family to go to college—her two older sisters went before her—but she was the first to land in Houston. "Like so many other people still today," she says, "I came here to look for a job."

Washington, DC, Oct. 07, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On Thursday, October 8, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. ET, the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC) and the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) are teaming up to host a non-partisan Virtual Candidate and Legislative Forum.

At this critical moment in American history and in our own missions, we are inviting the candidates to address the issues that impact our black and brown communities. We want to hear their vision for confronting the current Coronavirus health crisis and its devastating and disproportionate effects on the minority business community and our ability to participate in the American economy.

Fernando Ramos arrives late to the community center, wheels in, and picks up a guitar, joining his voice with the others: Entre tus manos, está mi vida, Señor. From his wheelchair, Noé Ramirez directs the group. Francisco "Pancho" Argüelles strums a guitar as he stands. Others sit in their wheelchairs and play instruments. A couple of the women sing—Hay que morir, para vivir—their voices clear and powerful, if slightly off-key.

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— House antitrust probe nears the finish line: Competition experts will testify this afternoon on what Congress should do next about tech giants' power — one of the final steps in the House antitrust probe that has captivated Washington and Silicon Valley's attention for more than a year.