Laura C. Morel
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Saint Petersburg, FL, United States
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This Nurse Wanted to Help Women Avoid Abortions. Then She Saw Infection Control Problems at a Crisis Pregnancy Center.
State agencies aren’t monitoring anti-abortion clinics that offer free ultrasounds and other medical care. A Kentucky nurse’s complaints against one facility illustrate the lack of accountability. → Read More
Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers Claim to Be Medical Clinics and Get Away With It
One Florida case shows how little oversight pregnancy centers face, even when they put patients' health at risk. → Read More
Abortion Providers Are Asking for Protection as They Prepare for Post-Roe Realities
The Department of Homeland Security has been on alert for an increase in violence. → Read More
Abortion’s Last Stand in the South: A Post-Roe Future Is Already Happening in Florida
Reports of harassment, disturbance and violence outside the state’s clinics are skyrocketing, while the federal law meant to protect clinics doesn’t cover the kind of tactics common today. → Read More
Abortion’s Last Chance in the South
Florida is a rare haven for abortion rights. But new attack tactics foreshadow a dark post-Roe future. → Read More
‘I’m going to tase this kid’: Government shelters are turning refugee children over to police
The Office of Refugee Resettlement is supposed to care for migrant children. But some shelters have turned to police after children allegedly fought, damaged property or had mental health needs. → Read More
Rampant racial disparities plagued how billions of dollars in PPP loans were distributed in the U.S.
An analysis of Paycheck Protection Program loans reveals that in many metro areas, businesses in White neighborhoods received loans at a far higher rate than in Latinx, Black and Asian ones. → Read More
The U Visa Is Meant to Protect Immigrants, But Police Are Undermining It
Attempts by crime victims to apply for the visa are routinely undermined by law enforcement agencies. → Read More
The U visa is supposed to help solve crimes and protect immigrants. But police are undermining it
Among more than 100 law enforcement agencies serving large immigrant communities, nearly 1 in 4 create barriers never envisioned under the program. → Read More
N.C. shut down a group home last year. The US just gave it a contract to house migrant children
As the Office of Refugee Resettlement rapidly expands its shelter network, it’s adding providers with little experience and troubling track records. → Read More
The Government Isn’t Reuniting Migrant Children With Legal Guardians
More than 2,800 children were separated from parents last summer, and hundreds more have been reported since then. → Read More
The Government Isn’t Reuniting Migrant Children With Legal Guardians
The court ruling that forced the Trump administration to reunite families separated at the border applies only to parents, excluding legal guardians. → Read More
ICE’s Human Smuggling Initiative Targeted Parents and Children
ICE used unaccompanied minors as bait to find and arrest undocumented immigrants. → Read More
‘They used the kids to get to parents like me’: How ICE’s human smuggling initiative targeted parents and children
A review of the operation by Reveal casts doubt on the official narrative. → Read More
Salvadoran man has evidence he’s not a gang member. US still separated him from his kids
The government hasn’t provided any proof of its claim that the man is affiliated with MS-13. He hasn’t seen his two kids in three months. → Read More
No One Knows What's Happening in This Tent City for Migrant Kids
The secrecy surrounding the camp has alarmed lawyers and advocates who question the conditions inside. → Read More
No one on the inside can talk about what’s happening at the tent city for migrant kids
Lack of access to the pop-up federal detention camp has frustrated town residents and alarmed advocates who question the conditions there. → Read More
Immigrant Children Still Being Drugged at Shelter Despite Judge’s Order
A federal judge told the government to stop nonconsensually medicating immigrant children held at a Texas shelter. → Read More
Immigrant children still being drugged at shelter despite judge’s order, lawyers say
Attorneys for immigrant children held at a troubled Texas shelter say kids continue to be forcibly drugged there despite a judge’s order. → Read More
ICE Deports Mauritanian Man Who Escaped Ethnic Cleansing
Seyni Malick Diagne is among dozens of Mauritanians who have been deported this year. → Read More