Fronteras Desk News

Most Charges Against Tucson Bus-Chaining Activists Dropped
On Tuesday a Tucson judge dropped most of the charges against 12 people for protesting a federal immigration court program by chaining themselves to buses.
Mar. 17, 2015
Immigration Links Mexicos Yucatan Peninsula With San Francisco
Mexico's Yucatan peninsula juts out into the Caribbean Sea like a defiant fist. Three thousand miles away, the San Francisco Bay area looks like a miniature version of it.The two may be separated by distance but they depend on each other. Yucatan needs the work and San Francisco needs the workers.
Mar. 17, 2015
Native Americans Can Prosecute Non-Natives In Tribal Court
As of this month, Native American tribes across the country are allowed to prosecute crimes against women in their own courts, even if the perpetrator is non-native. Over the past year, three tribes have been piloting ways to do this that honor both tribal and federal law.
Mar. 16, 2015
People who had been living in a homeless camp in downtown Tucson had to move out or face arrest on Friday. The camp is part of an ongoing debate between the city, federal courts and activists over the regulation of where and how homeless people should be able to live in the city.
Mar. 13, 2015
Border Patrol Tries A New Outreach Effort In An Unexpected Place
The Tucson sector of the U.S. Border Patrol is sending agents to speak to Mexican immigrants at the Phoenix Mexican consulate about the hazards of crossing the border in an effort to prevent migrant deaths.
Mar. 13, 2015
Rep. McSally Talks Defense Spending At Major Southern Arizona Employer
Martha McSally made her first visit as an Arizona Congresswoman to Raytheon in Tucson Wednesday. The company is Southern Arizona’s biggest private employer. The event is one of several McSally has planned this week in her district.
Mar. 11, 2015
Juárez Activists March To Denounce Disappeared Women
Mothers of disappeared and murdered women in the Mexican border city of Juárez took to the streets Sunday for International Women's Day.
Mar. 9, 2015
Feds Pay Downwinders $2 Billion But Leave Out Mohave County
The federal government announced this week it has awarded more than $2 billion to people exposed to radiation during the atomic tests near Las Vegas in the 1950s. But it still has not recognized the county that was exposed to the highest levels of radioactive fallout.
Mar. 5, 2015
Labor Loss In The Southwest Leads To Increase In Farm Technology
Much of the nation’s fresh fruits and vegetables are grown in the Southwest. A successful harvest now relies on the convergence of three different arenas: farming, technology and venture capitalism.
Mar. 5, 2015
Navajo Nation Files Petition Against U.S. Over Sacred Mountain
The Navajo Nation has filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights against the United States government for allowing a Flagstaff ski resort to make snow out of reclaimed waste water on what they consider a sacred mountain.
Mar. 3, 2015
Texas Recruiting Highway Patrol Officers To Southern Border
The Texas Department of Public Safety is looking to fill vacancies along the U.S.-Mexico border with fresh recruits. The agency is accepting applications for an accelerated training program set to begin this summer.
Mar. 3, 2015
Emergency crews are searching for one car that swept down Oak Creek and they’re keeping a close watch on Oak Creek Canyon. Last May’s Slide Fire has left the danger for mudslides and flooding.
Mar. 2, 2015
Protests are planned in several cities over the plight of a Guatemalan transgender woman seeking asylum. The federal government is holding her in an all-male immigration detention unit in Arizona.
Mar. 2, 2015
Attorneys representing immigrant families detained in Texas report the federal government has started setting bonds that would allow their clients to be released. But they argue the bond amount is set too high.
Feb. 27, 2015
The 12-year-old girl from Ecuador hung herself last March at a migrant shelter in the Mexican border city of Juárez. Authorities are now saying she was sexually abused days before her death.
Feb. 26, 2015
PHOENIX - Department of Homeland Security employees are preparing for a possible shut down of their agency. It’s due to a partisan fight over the president’s executive actions on immigration.
Feb. 25, 2015
Court Injunction Could Lead To Fewer Immigrant Family Detentions
A federal district judge in Washington D.C. issued an injunction Friday that prevents the Department of Homeland Security from detaining immigrant families on the basis that it deters future illegal border crossings.
Feb. 25, 2015
Theft In The Oilfields Of Texas, New Mexico Traced To Borderland Mexico
The decline in the price of crude oil is exacerbating an existing problem; theft of crude oil, tanks, pumps and tools from the nation's highest producing oilfield, the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico. And it turns out that in at least one cases, stolen material was smuggled to northern Mexico.
Feb. 25, 2015
A helicopter airlifted 20 Northern Arizona University students and staff who were stranded in snow near the North Rim of the Grand Canyon Tuesday afternoon.
Feb. 24, 2015
Cross-Border Drug Smuggling Tunnel Found In Naco, Arizona
Federal and local law enforcement officers discovered a cross-border, underground drug smuggling tunnel in Naco, Arizona, on Tuesday. Agents were alerted to the tunnel after a truck was found carrying more than two tons of marijuana outside of Bisbee.
Feb. 24, 2015

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