Fronteras Desk News
The Costs Behind A Migrant Crisis was a five-part series that aired in June 2016.
Feb. 7, 2016
The Arizona Interscholastic Association is looking at sensitivity training after an incident this week in Flagstaff, where a referee told a high school girls basketball team of mostly Navajos to take their hair down.
Feb. 5, 2016
Officials from the United States and Mexico inaugurated a new border crossing in far west Texas on Thursday as part of an ongoing effort to improve aging infrastructure between both countries.
Feb. 4, 2016
A former chief of police for the twin towns of Colorado City and Hildale on the Arizona-Utah border told a federal jury on Wednesday that he had previously lied under oath due to pressure from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Feb. 4, 2016
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says the number of women and children illegally crossing the Southwest border into the United States dropped sharply last month.
Feb. 4, 2016
As the militant standoff over federal control comes to a head in Oregon, we turn our attention to another federal land dispute. This one in Arizona, where lawmakers have proposed a national monument on land surrounding Grand Canyon National Park. Ranchers are worried about losing their grazing rights.
Feb. 3, 2016
The Santa Teresa port of entry in southern New Mexico is now open an extra four hours for southbound commercial vehicles. Dell Computer Company, which manufactures its products in Mexico, is footing the bill.
Jan. 29, 2016
In the past week, the government has called several witnesses who have shed light on their experience in the FLDS church and as residents of the community, known as Short Creek.
Jan. 28, 2016
An Arizona rancher was reportedly killed in a standoff with Oregon State Police on Tuesday. Eight others who took over a federal building for almost a month are in custody.
Jan. 27, 2016
Factory workers in the Mexican border city of Juárez are testing the strength of their newly created union in contract negotiations with the American telecommunications firm CommScope.
Jan. 27, 2016
The security force for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints used burner phones, four wheelers, radio scramblers and a secret network of safe houses to protect its church leader while he was a fugitive.
Jan. 26, 2016
Most of the time when we talk about homelessness, big cities come to mind. But about 7 percent of homeless people live in rural areas like Flagstaff, where access to help is much harder to come by.
Jan. 25, 2016
While the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was on the lam running from child sex abuse charges, the police officers who served his home community of Colorado City, Ariz. and Hildale, Utah wrote letters declaring their love and loyalty for him.
Jan. 21, 2016
The U.S. Department of Justice is accusing two cities on the Arizona-Utah border of being controlled by the FLDS church and discriminating against church outsiders. But the lawyers defending the cities said the federal government is discriminating against an unpopular religion.
Jan. 20, 2016
As a federal trial begins in Phoenix that accuses two towns on the Arizona-Utah border of being controlled by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, sisters who say they were victims of the church’s forced marriages have a number of questions.
Jan. 20, 2016
The first of three new shelters for unaccompanied migrant children is scheduled to open next week within Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
Jan. 19, 2016
A federal civil rights trial beginning this week in Phoenix is expected to examine the power dynamics of a polygamous community on the Arizona-Utah border.
Jan. 19, 2016
In this web-exclusive report, Fronteras Desk reporter Lorne Matalon speaks with Mexican social science researcher, artist and photographer Julián Cardona in Juárez on the evolution of words that now are code in Mexico for various tangents of what is commonly referred to as the "War on Drugs."
Jan. 19, 2016
This week, a trial begins in the U.S. Department of Justice's lawsuit accusing two towns on the Utah-Arizona border of religious discrimination. A Tucson lawyer won an earlier lawsuit making some of the same claims.
Jan. 18, 2016
The federal Office of Inspector General released a report Jan. 12 confirming that National Park Service employees in the Grand Canyon preyed on their female coworkers demanding sex, and punishing women who refused. The report was prompted by a 2014 complaint by 13 employees alleging a long-term pattern of abuse on river trips. Now some of those victims are speaking out.
Jan. 14, 2016
