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After two months in ICE detention, father is reunited with his family · Austin Signal

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An undocumented man detained after
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being arrested during a traffic stop
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in San Monica is now reunited with
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his family.
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He spent more than two months in
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detention.
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We're gonna have the latest details.
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And parents and staff from the
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Austin Independent School District
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spoke to state legislators this
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week, urging them to increase state
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funding for schools.
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We're going to hear from some of the
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folks who spoke out.
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We have more about both of these
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stories coming up on today's show.
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The Austin Signal is a production
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of KUT News, hosted by
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Jerry Quijano.
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Plus, Lou Diamond Phillips has been
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acting for decades now,
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but his breakout role as Richie
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Valance in La Bamba was so iconic,
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it's one he's still largely
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associated with to this day.
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Phillips was recognized with the
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City of Austin Proclamation during
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a visit to town in May.
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We're gonna hear more from him.
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That's up next, and it's right here
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on Austin Signal.
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Howdy out there, you are listening
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to Austin Signal right here
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on Community Powered Public Radio.
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This is KUT News, it
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is Tuesday, June 2nd.
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I'm your host Jerry Kekono, thank
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you for making us part of your day.
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Travis County Commissioner Margaret
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Gomez is retiring early.
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Gomez said this week that she will
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continue to serve as Precinct Four
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Commissioner until the county
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appoints someone to fill in for the
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remainder of her term.
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Gomez is stepping down after more
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than 50 years working for Travis
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County. She was elected as the
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first female Mexican-American County
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Commissioner back in 1995.
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Before that, she served as the
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county's first elected female
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constable.
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In a statement, Gomez said she's
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looking forward to spending more
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time with loved ones and said
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she planned to retire at the end of
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her current term.
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George Modales won a runoff election
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last week to be the Democratic
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nominee for that commissioner seat,
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and no Republican has filed to
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run. In that election.
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At a Texas Public Education
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Committee hearing held in town this
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week, Austin ISD parents and
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teachers urged legislators to
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increase state funding for schools.
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For more about that hearing and what
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went on, we are speaking with Greta
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Diaz-Gonzalez-Vazquez.
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She is KUT's education reporter.
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Greta, great to speak with you.
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Hi Jerry!
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So we weren't there for
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tell us what exactly happened at
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this hearing.
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So this hearing focused on
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monitoring the implementation of
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House Bill 2, which
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passed last year, and it's
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focused on school finance.
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So the hearing itself was on
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school finance, teacher recruitment,
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and teacher retention, and also
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special education.
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Okay, and as I understand it, House
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Bill 2 did add
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funds for school funding,
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so why are folks still asking for
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more money?
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Yes, so it was a bill that
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added $8 billion, more than $8
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billion, to education
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in the state.
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Half of that, $4 billion, went to
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teacher and staff pay raises,
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creating the teacher retention
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allotment.
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$1.3 billion went to district
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operational costs, like utilities,
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and it also, among other things, it
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also increased the basic,
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the per student basic allotment
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by $55.
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Which district advocates say it's
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not enough to keep up with inflation
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costs. So let's hear Navarro
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ISD's
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CFO, Paul Newhop.
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In Navarro, our utilities have
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increased close to 60% since 2019.
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TRS payments have gone up 62%
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since 2021.
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Transportation, last year when we
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reported to the TEA,
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our average cost per mile operating
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our bus fleet was $3.92
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a mile.
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And that's before the now
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spike that we have in diesel prices
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that are going to impact us this
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year.
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So he's saying it's getting harder
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to keep the lights on, to keep
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getting kids to school.
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It's getting more expensive.
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How many people were at this hearing
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yesterday?
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Yeah, so it was
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a long hearing.
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At first, it was packed.
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The room was packed, I would say,
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100 people. I'm not great at
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counting people, but as
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hours kept passing, there was less
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and less people in the room for
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sure.
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And how long did it go?
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So it went for about
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five, six hours.
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No, even more. I'm so sorry.
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By 7 PM it kept going.
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So it started at 10, 7 PM
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we were still.
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So at least nine hours.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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And, well, multiple parents
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spoke to the
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committee during the public hearing.
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The thing is they have
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panels where people talk
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with the committee, the committee
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asks questions.
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Those panels are district
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officials,
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education experts,
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even people from the TA.
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Legislatures asked the people
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from TA why the funding formulas
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weren't working the way they I had
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expected.
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The legislature, John Bryan,
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who represents Dallas said that
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Dallas ISD, when HB2 was
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being voted on, that they
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were expecting to get funding
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of up to 134 million
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extras for next
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school year. But in the end, they
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saw only a 4 million increase.
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So he said there was $130
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million that they weren't expecting
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that they didn't receive.
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Okay, from what I understand about
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House Build 2, it also has
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some funding for special education.
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Can you briefly explain what
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changed there?
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Yes, so a few things
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changed for special education.
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Districts will receive more money
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based on student needs, like
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specific individual student needs.
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And one of the biggest changes was
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also that everybody talked about
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was that funding for initial
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special education evaluations.
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That means that each district will
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get $1,000
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for each evaluation,
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initial evaluation, they have
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for a student to determine if a
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student is eligible.
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For special education.
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But educators told me yesterday that
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those evaluations could cost up to
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$5,000.
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So if the district gets only 1,000,
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there's 4,000 that they have to
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cover.
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Representative Gina Nohosa
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questioned the TA during the
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meeting saying that their system
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didn't quite work and that we're
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seeing districts suffer with funding
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and that the expectations
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in terms of special education
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were unrealistic.
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You mentioned that this was a long
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and large hearing and those can go
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on for a long time.
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And so not everybody has a chance to
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speak. You got a chance to speak
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though after the meeting or outside
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of the Capitol with a teacher.
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Who did you speak with and what did
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they have to say?
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Yeah, so I spoke to a teacher.
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His name is Eric Ramos.
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And he was telling me that while
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the funding has increased,
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especially for teachers with the
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incentives and allotments,
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that it's it's not enough.
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Let's hear him.
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It's hard to say they're working in
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good faith for me when they have
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a huge budget surplus
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and are making no effort to
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increase funding to a realistic
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level for public education.
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Know, and Ramos left the meeting
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without speaking during public
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comment, even though he had signed
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up to, but he was like, I'm tired.
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I want to go home.
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And other teachers left and came
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back, same as parents.
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And there was a teacher who
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legislators asked what is
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happening? Why are teachers leaving
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the state or teaching,
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maybe not the state, but that
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they're leaving teaching.
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And she said, because there's only
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so much money you can throw at
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teachers. Like she said we're being
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demonized. We are tired of
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culture wars.
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And she says that they don't feel
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valued.
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Okay, that is Greta Diaz-Gonzalez
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Vazquez. She is KUT's
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education reporter.
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Greta, thank you for coming back on
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the show.
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Thank you, Jerry.
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During a special broadcast of
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Austin's signal in May, we heard
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about the impacts of immigration
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enforcement here in central Texas.
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And we told you the story of
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Gerardo Reyes, a man taken into
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ice custody during a traffic stop in
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San Marcos.
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That was in March.
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Reyes was released from detention on
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Monday and reunited with his family
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after more than two months in
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custody.
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KUT's Hays County reporter Lee
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Walden has been following that story
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and she is this now highly.
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Hey, Jerry.
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So, for listeners who might not be
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familiar with Reyes' story, can
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you give us a recap of it?
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Yeah, in brief,
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Gerardo Reyes and Eson Esteban were
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pulled over in March in
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a mistaken traffic stop.
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So they were in San Marcos, though
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they live in San Antonio, and
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someone called in for a crime that
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hadn't actually been committed, and
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the two were arrested and detained.
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Esteban was released the same
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day, but Gerardo, who is
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not a citizen of the United States,
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was sent to a detainment facility
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in Taylor and has been there for
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the last two months.
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Later in May,
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his immigration hearing happened
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and he was denied cancelation of
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removal.
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But this filing now
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gives him the opportunity to be
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reunited with his family while
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litigation continues.
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Okay, yesterday
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Reyes was released from that
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detention center in Taylor.
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You got to spend some time with his
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family reporting in May.
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What was their reaction to this
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news?
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Yeah, I mean, they're elated.
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It has been a really, really long
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journey to get to this point.
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And I mean the
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terminology that was told to me on
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the phone was this is like the first
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good news that they've had in a long
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time when I was speaking with his
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daughter yesterday.
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So they're so excited that this is
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the filing or the filing was
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successful.
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And I spoke with the
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executive director of Mono Omega
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who's an advocacy group in San
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Marcos and has been working
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alongside the family for
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Gerardo's release.
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Um, and Eric Martinez told
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me that this is, this is a community
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win.
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We feel really elated
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because this
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work is incredibly difficult and
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to see a family reunited
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after such unjust
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circumstances really
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really like warms our hearts and
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you know gives us something to hold
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on to to help us push
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through and continue to
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help more families and
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you know, demand systemic change.
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So you said the first bit of good
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news that they had gotten in a
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while, but there's still some things
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to be played out here specifically
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regarding Reyes' case.
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What does that mean?
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Where are we at in his case?
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Yeah. And I'm going to try not to
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get in the weeds because it's a
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confusing situation, at least to me,
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it's been a confusing situation.
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There's a lot going on in a lot of
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these situations. Yeah.
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So the, the
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filing for the denial of his
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cancelation of removal.
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So that means that the U
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S still has charges
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against him to be deported.
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Um, but habeas corpus
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deals with whether or not someone
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has been detained, um,
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legally and since
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the Trump administration last year,
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decided that undocumented
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immigrants aren't entitled to bond
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hearings, habeas corpus filings
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have skyrocketed.
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So we're seeing a lot of new
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habeas filings that are saying that
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the detainment is not legal
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because people aren't having
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these bond hearings.
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And a bond hearing is placed because
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no
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matter if you're a U.S.
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Citizen or not, you are entitled to
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be at home or be
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outside of a jail.
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If you are not a risk to the
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community or if you're not a flight
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risk.
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So the habeas corpus filing means
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that he gets to be reunited with his
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family while the
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appeal of the
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deportation filing goes through.
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And now that he is out of detention,
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the likelihood of that appeal going
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through the Immigration Board of
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Appeals quickly goes
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down. So.
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They are overrun with cases
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right now, and it's taking a long,
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long time for this appeals process
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to happen.
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Sometimes weeks, months, but I
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spoke to Ali-Lex what this morning
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that said it could be years.
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Okay, and since it could
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be a long time when you spoke to the
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family, what are they focused on
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right now in the short term?
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I mean, just being together.
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I think this is something that was
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not necessarily super
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expected.
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They've, I mean understandably lost
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a lot of faith with systems
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operating effectively,
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you know, successfully.
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And so they're excited to
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be back together. Of course they
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are.
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And they're motivating themselves
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for the fight and recovering to
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an extent too, because this was
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their breadwinner, you now?
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And the living expenses,
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the cost of the...
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Taking care of all this litigation
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has been really, really burdensome
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to the family.
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So they're excited to have them
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reintegrated into the community and
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starting to make up some of the
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debt, like the fiscal debt
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that this circumstances has brought
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onto them.
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Okay, that is Lee Walden.
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She is KUT's Hayes County reporter.
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Thank you for bringing us this
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story, Lee. Thank you.
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And thank you for spending part of
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your Tuesday here with Austin
13:11
Signal. We're gonna have links to
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both of the stories that we talked
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about today in the show notes
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and you can find more from us at
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kut.org slash
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signal. We will be back after a
13:21
break. Thanks for being with us.
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This is Austin Signal.
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Thank you for being with us today.
13:34
The Texas softball team beat
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Tennessee twice on Monday,
13:38
advancing to the championship of
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the women's college world series for
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the third year in a row.
13:43
Texas are the defending champions
13:46
from last year. They will now face
13:47
Texas Tech in the best of
13:49
three championship series.
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That starts tomorrow night at seven,
13:53
and you can catch that on ESPN.
13:55
Texas baseball team has advanced to
13:57
the men's college World Series as
13:59
well. But they're still waiting
14:01
to see who they're going to
14:02
be playing.
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And once they find out, we'll let
14:05
you know right here on Austin
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Signal.
14:09
Lou Diamond Phillips has been acting
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for decades, but his breakout role
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was so iconic.
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It's one that he is still largely
14:15
associated with.
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La Bamba came out in 1987,
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where he played Richie Valance, and
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then went on to shine in Stand and
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Deliver and Young Guns.
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More recently, he starred in
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Longmire.
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His latest film is Keep Quiet,
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where he plays a tribal police
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officer. It's screened at Austin's
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Cine Las Americas, where the city of
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Austin and Councilmember Jose
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Velasquez proclaimed May 16th,
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2026, Lou Diamond
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Phillips Day.
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Texas Standard's Laura Rice caught
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up with Phillips on Zoom.
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You grew up in Texas.
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Is that right? Can you tell me your
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story?
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Yeah, no, I grew up in Texas,
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you know, got to Texas
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from many places,
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you know, abroad and
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before that, my dad was in the Navy
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and then ended up in Corpus Christi
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right down there, you know, by a
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Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi.
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That's where he retired.
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And so, yeah, I
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got to Texas for my formative years,
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junior high school, and
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then went to the University of Texas
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at Arlington.
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So, uh, you know all of
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my dreams all my aspirations all
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of that you know began
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right there in Texas uh uh
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you know i majored in theater you
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know when i was in high school i did
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a lot of university interscholastic
15:30
league uh you no drama competitions
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uh you know it was
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it was something i intended to do
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from a very young age does
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it feel like home still or
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My dad is still down in
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Corpus and I got
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a ton of friends still there, so it
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does, in many respects.
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Although I've lived, I was in
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LA for 30-something years and been
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in New York now for seven.
15:54
I have some high school friends
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coming to have dinner with me in
15:58
Austin at the
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Dallas International Film Festival
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recently. A ton of
16:03
high school friends, college
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friends, acting school
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friends. So my
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connections to Texas run deep and
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are eternal.
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Oh, well, you mentioned
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the Dallas International Film
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Festival.
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You won this Dallas Star
16:19
Award while you were there
16:21
this year.
16:23
How great was that?
16:24
What was that like?
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You know, again,
16:28
it's a little like
16:30
going to Austin and
16:33
being given the key to the city.
16:34
I mean, the Chamber
16:36
of Commerce has come
16:38
up with a nice little welcome
16:40
package for me, which is really
16:42
beautiful.
16:43
But it is. It's a full circle event
16:45
where, as
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I said, back in the day,
16:49
in my teenage years, I dreamed of
16:51
being where I am now.
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And to be able to come back.
16:55
Wearing that and owning that
16:57
and not being done, you
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know.
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It's an ongoing career.
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It's very gratifying.
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Well, I think you've become an
17:07
icon a bit.
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And I was going to ask you about
17:10
that because I know you've
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been asked about this before, but
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you're really an icon, especially in
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the Latino community, because
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of your your work with
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La Bamba and Stand
17:21
and Deliver. And I wonder what
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that's like for you, because some
17:24
people might know that your
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background is a little a little
17:27
different than than what you played
17:29
on screen.
17:29
Yeah, no, yeah, I'm
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half Filipino with some, you know,
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the Hawaiian, Chinese, a lot of sort
17:35
of Pacific theater stuff going on
17:37
there.
17:38
And then believe it or not, you
17:39
know, like Scott Irish English,
17:41
you there's a healthy dose of
17:43
Scandinavian in there as well and
17:45
a drop of indigenous blood.
17:47
But, you know, back in the
17:49
day, you I fit
17:51
the bill, you know, I was
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ambiguously brown.
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But since that time,
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I've been very, very proud to
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represent a number of communities,
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and even more proud that they
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not only have accepted me, but
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have elevated me in the platform.
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I mean, I get approached from
18:09
Latinos all the time about what
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lavamba means to them, what standing
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delivered means.
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A lot of people in the Indigenous
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communities have been adopted into
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the Cheyenne Nation, into the Lakota
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Nation.
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Fortunately, I take that as a sign
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that I did them proud,
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which is what I set to do.
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Being, you know, a performer of
18:27
color, it's like, okay,
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you have to represent with some
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respect, not just
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use it as a piece of
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wardrobe.
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So my attitude
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from the beginning has always been,
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go to the source and,
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you, know, represent it to the best
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of my abilities.
18:44
I mean, that's very true of Keep
18:45
Quiet.
18:46
It's an Indigenous story.
18:47
It takes place on the reservation.
18:49
We make sure to mention that I am
18:51
not Indigenous in the film,
18:53
that I married into it.
18:54
I caught that, yeah.
18:56
And your co-worker's a bit surprised
18:58
because, like you said, you
19:00
could fit in the bill.
19:02
100%. And, but that,
19:04
that, you know, delineation allowed
19:06
us a very interesting dynamic
19:09
with the character in that he is
19:11
a perennial outsider, you
19:13
know, and that's in some ways
19:15
I get that myself, you
19:17
know, because I don't fit easily
19:18
into anybody's box.
19:20
Even Hollywood's, you know, they,
19:22
they didn't know what to do with me
19:23
for a long time, you know, oh, is he
19:25
the Brown Brat Packer?
19:26
You know, so, because
19:29
I sort of defy categorization.
19:31
It's been an interesting path.
19:33
Well, I do want to get back to Keep
19:35
Quiet because it's
19:37
a complex movie and
19:39
you play this really
19:41
challenging and conflicted
19:43
character.
19:44
What would you want people to know
19:46
about him?
19:47
I think that he's somebody that
19:49
a lot of people can relate to,
19:52
you know, he certainly is the
19:54
old bull to a certain extent.
19:56
He's seen a lot, he's lived a lot
19:57
and he carries that with him.
19:59
And in some respects, you now, it's
20:02
a burden.
20:03
But it's the community that may
20:04
never fully embrace him, you
20:06
not only knew who
20:08
he was, I've known guys like that.
20:11
Somebody asked me, what kind of
20:13
research did you do? And I said,
20:14
well, I've been doing this, you
20:15
know, for 40 years.
20:17
You know, I played, you know God
20:19
knows how many cops, you
20:21
can know. So the research was,
20:23
you now, the living
20:25
that I've, you known, acquired up
20:27
to this point.
20:28
And that's, that was, that was
20:29
incredibly attractive
20:32
in the role because you know
20:34
in page five, I saw
20:36
myself in the world.
20:37
I knew who this guy was and
20:39
how I was going to play him.
20:40
Like you said, film festivals like
20:42
Dallas International Film Festival,
20:44
Cine Las Americas in
20:45
Austin, I think
20:47
I saw coming out in
20:49
July in limited theatrical release.
20:52
But what do you make of this
20:54
moment for independent
20:56
film? I mean, does this feel
20:58
like something that you've seen in
21:00
decades past in your career, or are
21:02
the challenges new and different
21:03
right now?
21:04
Uh, you know, it ebbs and flows,
21:06
uh, back
21:09
when I did La Bomba and standing
21:10
delivered back to back, you now, Oh
21:12
my goodness, we're going to have,
21:13
you know, a Latino wave, a
21:14
Latina wave, you know, in cinema,
21:16
it didn't happen.
21:18
Uh, You know, but, but
21:20
in recent
21:22
years, uh we, we've
21:24
seen more.
21:26
Filmmakers, more writers,
21:28
more producers, more people
21:30
telling their specific stories
21:32
and them finding a
21:34
universal audience to them.
21:36
You know, things like, you know,
21:38
Minari, you now,
21:41
Moonlight, I mean, just a
21:43
lot of smaller films that
21:45
break through.
21:47
And because they're done with love
21:49
and they're, and they've done with,
21:52
Truth Capital T in the middle of
21:54
them.
21:55
And what we're seeing now is we
21:57
are seeing smaller
21:59
films breakthrough, but it really
22:01
does take people who
22:03
care.
22:04
We're coming out in limited release
22:06
in theaters, but it's
22:08
almost like we're hand carrying it
22:09
to a lot of places.
22:10
I mean, it is artisanal,
22:12
it's handcrafted and
22:14
it is grassroots.
22:16
That is Lou Diamond Phillips.
22:18
He stars in and executive produced
22:19
the new film Keep Quiet, coming to
22:21
theaters in July.
22:22
He was speaking with Texas
22:24
Standards' Laura Rice.
22:26
Coming up on Tomorrow Show, we
22:27
continue our series of lasts for
22:29
Austin ISD students, teachers and
22:31
staff as the district closes
22:32
multiple schools.
22:34
We will hear from Ridgetop
22:35
Elementary cafeteria staff and
22:37
students during their last lunch at
22:38
the school before the campus closes.
22:42
Wait, PS, I
22:44
love the Alfredo bite.
22:46
I can't believe you had some of my
22:47
favorite foods for the last three
22:49
days.
22:52
That story from KUT education
22:54
reporter Greta
22:54
Diaz-Gonzalez-Vazquez,
22:57
plus healthcare reporter Olivia
22:58
Aldridge joins us to discuss a new
23:00
report that finds a rising number
23:02
of children in Texas are uninsured
23:04
at data from Georgetown University's
23:06
Center for Children and Families.
23:08
We will dive into the numbers
23:10
and we'll have a whole lot more
23:12
coming up for you tomorrow on
23:14
Austin Signal.
23:15
That is it for today's show.
23:16
Again, you can find more from us at
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23:22
Talk to you tomorrow.
23:23
Have a great day.