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Commentary: Children first - The pediatrician's response to immigration enforcement in our communities

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By Neel V. Patel Verified
| The Sacramento Bee Verified
An ICE agent plans his escape through an angry crowd after an immigrant raid on Atlantic Blvd. in Bell, California on June 20, 2025. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times/TNS) Earlier this year at San Francisco International Airport, a nine-year-old girl watched in terror as federal agents in plainclothes forcibly handcuffed her mother, pried her fingers from an airport bench, and wheeled her away. The child stood alone in the terminal, crying – as so many other children watched.
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What’s the Point of Sending People Into Space? An Astronaut, Scientist and Journalist Debate.

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By David Grinspoon, Neel V. Patel Verified, Kate Rubins
| The New York Times Verified
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. round table April 6, 2026, 5:01 a.m. ET The launching of the Artemis II mission from the Kennedy Space Center on Friday.Credit...Damon Winter/The New York Times NASA’s Artemis II astronauts are set to fly by the moon on Monday, in humans’ first trip so far into space since the 1970s.
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Mom and the Eclipse

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By Neel V. Patel Verified
| Readers Digest Verified
Six years as a space reporter taught me that chaos reigns supreme. I have watched enough go wrong to know that no mission or any view of a celestial event is ever truly promised to us terrestrial observers. So when my mother and I decided to drive out to Erie, Pennsylvania, to see the 8 April solar eclipse this year within the path of totality, I knew this would be a trip of two clashing attitudes.
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