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Sara's Demons Crossed the Border with Her: Where Could She Find Help for Her Mental-Health Problems?

By Valeria Fernández
Feb 1, 2017

Undocumented children from Central America find mental-health resources are in short supply after they reach the U.S.
Best of Phoenix 2015: Crossing the Sonoran Desert in Search of a New Hope

By Valeria Fernández
Sep 23, 2015

The wood in the small shack felt like ice as he held his brother close to stay warm. William Hernández's hands were numb, his fingers stiff, his bones trembling underneath his brown T-shirt. He had never imagined the desert could be this cold. The smugglers wouldn't let them light a...
Few Child Refugees Get to Stay Here Legally. Meet One of the Lucky Ones

By Valeria Fernández
Jul 17, 2014

Darlin Adonay Peña has a headache. On a Wednesday afternoon in May, he takes a break from his job flipping burgers at a McDonald’s on Central Avenue in Phoenix to sit down and talk, sipping a frozen caramel coffee drink and rubbing his almond eyes. A brown rosary peeks from...
The U.S. Tries to Deport Not Protect Children Fleeing Violence in Central America

By Valeria Fernández
Jul 16, 2014

Darlin Adonay Peña has a headache. On a Wednesday afternoon in May, he takes a break from his job flipping burgers at a McDonald's on Central Avenue in Phoenix to sit down and talk, sipping a frozen caramel coffee drink and rubbing his almond eyes. A brown rosary peeks from...
No Probable Cause? No Problem!: A U.S. Citizen Says He Was Detained Without Probable Cause by the MCSO, and Then Jailed for Traffic Violations

By Valeria Fernández
Nov 19, 2009

Editor's note: This is one of a group of individual accounts of racial profiling by Sheriff Joe Arpaio's forces. What's important to remember about 18-year-old Jerry Cosio's arrest by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office is that he was confronted without apparent probable cause. Cosio's not perfect — he was driving...

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