Stella M. Chávez
Investigative ReporterStella Chávez is KERA’s education reporter/blogger. Her journalism roots run deep: She spent a decade and a half in newspapers – including seven years at The Dallas Morning News, where she covered education and won the Livingston Award for National Reporting, which is given annually to the best journalists across the country under age 35. The award-winning entry was “Yolanda’s Crossing,” a seven-part DMN series she co-wrote that reconstructs the 5,000-mile journey of a young Mexican sexual-abuse victim from a small Oaxacan village to Dallas. For the last two years, she worked for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where she was part of the agency’s outreach efforts on the Affordable Care Act and ran the regional office’s social media efforts. [Copyright 2025 KERA]
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The state has vowed to assist the president in his efforts to revamp immigration. But the state’s biggest cities and school districts are more reluctant to help. -
Dozens of people were arrested in North Texas alone as part of Donald Trump’s crackdown on people who may be in the country without legal status. -
Presidents from both parties have raided businesses alleged to have hired people who are in the country without legal status. Here’s what we know about how they may work under a second Trump administration. -
Texas spent nearly $4 million to buy land for immigrant enforcement. Where is it and what exactly will it be used for? -
Texas has spent billions of dollars on its own immigration enforcement and border security, making them the ideal partner to the new Trump administration. -
Trump tried to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program before. Since then, it’s been caught up in legal challenges and is likely headed for the Supreme Court. -
Hailing from places like Venezuela and South Asia, voters told us political unrest at home taught them the value of a democratic process. -
The Department of Public Safety and the Department of State Health Services are no longer following court orders to update someone's sex on driver's licenses and birth certificates. Transgender Texans and advocates say this could put their community at greater risk of being denied certain services and threaten their safety. -
Longtime noncitizens married to a U.S. citizen could be eligible to apply for parole that would grant protections. UNT college student Oscar Silva says he plans to apply. -
“A shameful attempt to incite fear and score political points.” Criticism and condemnation came quickly from immigrant rights organizations – and Texas lawmakers on both sides of the aisle – after President Biden issued an executive order Tuesday that would limit asylum claims. -
North Texans who waited hours to vote in Mexico's election are angry they couldn't cast their ballotThousands of North Texans weren't able to vote in Mexico's historic election of its first female president due to high turnout and because many didn't pre-register. -
A bipartisan group says President Biden should use executive authority to grant longtime undocumented immigrants temporary protection from deportation and work permits.
