By Leann Ray | Editor-in-chief
Happy Sunday! Here's a roundup of this week's stories in case you missed them.
NEWS
West Virginia localities gave the highest percentage — about 23.8% — of their opioid settlement funds to law enforcement in fiscal year 2025. Police cruisers were the largest single spending category for law enforcement. (Stock photo by Halbergman/Getty Images)
COMMENTARY
As of June, there were 32,792 unemployed adults in West Virginia. (Stock photo by Catherine McQueen via Getty Images)
Stories from the States
Attorney Alexa Sendukas represents many unaccompanied children in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody and tries to reunite them with relatives in the U.S. She has started to see a startling tactic: Federal agencies are using the children to trap and detain the adults who come to detention centers to pick the kids up. It’s left many families scrambling and trying to figure out when they’ll see each other again.
In Episode 46, you’ll hear from Alexa Sendukas, a managing attorney with the Galveston-Houston Immigrant Representation Project. She has represented many detained adults and children in their immigration cases.
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