Best Of The Border (10/28 - 11/1)
In Mexico, Crime Stats Are In The Eye Of The Beholder
With murders down but other violent crimes up in Mexico, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto's efforts to stem the violence seem less than successful.
Permian Basin Declared Nation's Largest Oil Production Center
The ups and downs of the oil industry have written the history of the Permian Basin in west Texas and eastern New Mexico. Today the Basin is in hyper-expansion mode. The federal government said this week that the region is now the nation’s largest oil production center. An oil & gas boom means almost anyone can make 100 thousand dollars a year.
Three oil field workers, Dave Cronwall, Frank McCoy and Darnell Joyson, sum it up succinctly.
“Everybody’s here for the money. The reason I came out here was for the money. Make money, the boom, I mean everyone out here is making money!”
911 Dispatchers Take Desperate Calls From Migrants In An Unforgiving Desert
The Arizona desert is a killer.
Every year it claims the lives of migrants who cross the border illegally and try to make their way north. In the past year, the number of migrants rescued by the U.S. Border Patrol grew, according to recently released data.
911 dispatchers say most calls from migrants typically begin the same way: I’m lost in the desert and I haven’t had water in days.
Las Vegas School District Scrambles To Make Space For More Students
This year Nevada’s Clark County School District once again faced record enrollment numbers. It is one of the biggest and fastest growing school districts in the nation.
Ronzone Elementary is typical of many other schools in Las Vegas that rely on a high number of portable classrooms. More than 50 percent of kids speak English as a second language and more than 70 percent depend on free and reduced lunches.
Many of the elementary schools with the highest numbers of portable classrooms have a similar profile.
