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** THE WEEKLY REVEAL
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Saturday, June 4, 2022

Hello! In this issue:
* Carla Provost’s tenure as Border Patrol chief was a disaster for children. Yet in 2021 ([link removed]) , she was hired to run an emergency migrant children’s shelter in Texas.
* Wildfires are getting worse due to climate change. This week on Reveal ([link removed]) , how do we learn to live with them?
* What’s happened since we first uncovered a cesspool of fraud in California’s drug rehab system ([link removed]) .


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** Migrant Children Died on Border Patrol Chief’s Watch. Then She Ran an Emergency Shelter Under Biden.
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By Aura Bogado
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Carla Provost, chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, speaks during a Senate subcommittee hearing in May 2019. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

As chief of the Border Patrol, Carla Provost oversaw family separation under President Donald Trump. Her tenure was a particularly fatal stretch for children, with four dying in the agency’s care in a six-month span.

As chief, she also came under fire for her membership ([link removed]) in a xenophobic Facebook group populated with past and current Border Patrol officers. Members of the group frequently shared jokes and memes that made light of migrant deaths ([link removed]) .

Yet in 2021, during the Biden administration, she was hired as site director of the Pecos Children’s Center in West Texas, ensuring the care of migrant children as border crossings increased early that year, according to records we obtained ([link removed]) .
* The 2,000-bed Pecos emergency shelter is run by the San Antonio-based nonprofit Endeavors, which has a contract worth up to $789 million with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to run the site.
* Provost is no longer site director but is currently an Endeavors contractor, according to the company.
* A Department of Health and Human Services official said the agency didn’t know Provost ran the Pecos shelter, and federal rules prohibit it from controlling contractors’ hiring and firing decisions.

Setareh Ghandehari, an advocacy director for Detention Watch Network, described news of Provost’s involvement at the Pecos shelter as “appalling.”

“Carla Provost, who was complicit in tearing hundreds of children apart from the loving care of their families, cannot be trusted with caring for children,” she said.

Provost could not be reached for comment.
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** THIS WEEK’S EPISODE
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** Fighting Fire with Fire
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Damage from wildfires has become part of life in the West. As climate change intensifies, fires are going to get worse. So how do we learn to live with them?

This week on Reveal ([link removed]) , we investigate and explore:
* A program in California’s wine country that allows growers to put farmworkers on the front lines of wildfires.
* One man’s quest to use fire to preserve both the forest and the Karuk Tribe’s way of life.
* The U.S. Forest Service’s slow embrace of prescribed burns, one of the most effective tools to mitigate massive, deadly wildfires.

This episode was produced in partnership with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, World Affairs and KQED. It is a rebroadcast of an episode that originally aired in September 2021.
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📸 A member of the Lassen Hotshots works to contain the massive August Complex Fire, which burned over 1 million acres of Northern California in 2020. Credit: Forest Service photo by Mike McMillan


** IMPACT
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** Our Drug Rehab Investigation Led to 96 Convictions and Millions in Restitution
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Dr. Howard Oliver, a prolific rehab doctor, was convicted of fraud in 2021. Credit: CNN

Billing for “ghost patients.” Diagnosing teenagers with bogus addictions. Stealing millions in public funds meant for addiction treatment.

Years ago, our investigation ([link removed]) with CNN exposed rampant fraud in California’s drug rehab system for the poor. Now we tally the impact so far: 96 convictions, including several of the people we featured in our stories, and $4 million ordered in restitution.
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** In Case You Missed It
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Shooting in the Dark: Why Gun Reform Keeps Failing ([link removed])
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Amazon’s Warehouse Quotas Have Been Injuring Workers for Years. Now, Officials Are Taking Action. ([link removed])


** In the News
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What’s happening in the news – with a Reveal context

🏫 The U.S. Department of Education on Wednesday announced ([link removed]) it will forgive $5.8 billion of federal student loans owed by 560,000 borrowers who attended Corinthian Colleges, ​​known locally by such names as Everest College, Heald College and WyoTech. It is the largest single loan discharge the department has made in its history ([link removed]) .

Corinthian Colleges was one of the world’s largest for-profit college chains – and one of the biggest moneymakers. At its height in 2010, it had more than 110,000 students, 105 campuses across the country and revenue of $1.7 billion, most of it in federal funds. But as our 2016 investigation notes, even in a boom-and-bust business, its closure and bankruptcy in 2015 was a remarkable collapse. Take a look back to see how the company suddenly imploded ([link removed]) .
The Weekly Reveal is written by Kassie Navarro, edited by Sarah Mirk and Andrew Donohue and copy edited by Nikki Frick. If you enjoyed this issue, forward it to a friend ([link removed]) . Have some thoughts? Drop us a line (mailto:[email protected]) with feedback or ideas!

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