Month: May 2023

The news to know for Monday, May 8, 2023!

We're talking about another mass shooting over the weekend, this one at a mall in Texas.

And there's an update about Afghan refugees living in the U.S.

Also, the world has officially declared an end to the Covid-19 emergency. We'll explain what that means.

Plus, just as more weather is expected this week, there are new efforts to improve weather forecasts. 

We'll tell you who won the Kentucky Derby and what has seemingly overshadowed the celebrations.

And do you have plans for a concert coming up? We'll share the latest stats when it comes to live shows.

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A 10-year-old girl from Honduras arrived at the southern border unaccompanied by adults. She told Sheena Rodriguez that she hoped to stay in America, and wanted to “color and get to know my father.” 

The Honduras girl is like so many other unaccompanied alien children, says Rodriguez, founder and president of Alliance for a Safe Texas.

These kids arrive at the border with “pieces of paper with handwritten numbers on it," she says, "and these children are going to people that they have never even spoken to."

About 85,000 migrant children have entered the U.S. and been placed with a sponsor, but the federal U.S. government now doesn't know the children's location or status. Through her work at Alliance for a Safe Texas, Rodriguez seeks to raise awareness about how the border crisis has led to the exploitation of children, and to offer solutions to lawmakers who are trying to fix policies that led to the current situation. 

Rodriguez’s desire to find out what was really going on at the southern border began about three years ago. She says she needed to see the situation for herself, so she planned a trip. Rodriguez left her home in North Texas and arrived around midnight in Laredo, about 160 miles south of San Antonio on the Mexican border. 

“We encountered about 60 different men, all young men, to the one Border Patrol agent,” Rodriguez says, adding: “And he looked at me, didn't know me from anywhere, and said, ‘I need help. We're being invaded.’"

At that moment, Rodriguez says she committed to doing something to address the border crisis. 

Since that first trip, Rodriguez says, she has taken nearly three dozen trips to the border and spoken with many illegal aliens, including unaccompanied migrant children. 

Rodriguez joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to share stories of these unaccompanied children and explain what we know about how minors are arriving alone at the border. 

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