Fronteras Desk News

West Nile virus cases in the Southwest are up from previous years, according to new 2012 statistics released by the Centers for Disease Control.
May. 16, 2013
Lydia Mendoza has been called the first lady of Tejano and Conjunto Music. On Wednesday the U.S. Postal Service unveiled a Forever Stamp in her honor as part of a music legends series.
May. 16, 2013
Without rare earth elements, a lot of technology relied upon on every day doesn't work: cell phones, computer hard drives, radar systems, lasers and hybrid vehicle batteries.
May. 16, 2013
A curious compromise was reached Tuesday in the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on immigration reform. The 24/7 surveillance was deemed acceptable for most of the U.S.-Mexico border, except for California.
May. 15, 2013
New Mexico's application for federal grant money is in, but there's still a question of whether or not the health insurance exchange will be run by the state, the federal government, or both.
May. 15, 2013
They hope their findings will influence better border infrastructure design.
May. 15, 2013
In the last decade Mexico’s tech industry has flourished, growing three times faster than the global average. Most of that growth is fueled by demand from the United States. But without certain reforms Mexico’s progress can only go so far.
May. 15, 2013
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Tuesday to keep drone planes limited to patrolling only within three miles of the border in California.
May. 14, 2013
A widely touted Border Patrol initiative to send migrants back to Mexico far from the points they are caught entering the U.S. illegally has one of the worst track records at discouraging people from trying again, according to a new study.
May. 14, 2013
Benjamin Franklin is generally revered as one of the most brilliant of our Founding Fathers -- the inventor of the lighting rod and bifocals, an accomplished musician, and a political theorist who helped shape the U.S. Constitution. But his thoughts on one immigrant group seem at odds with America's identity as a "nation of immigrants."
May. 14, 2013
GOP’s former head of Hispanic Outreach in Flordia has just registered to become a Democrat.
May. 14, 2013
Federal officials are preparing for the worst this fire season. Severe drought conditions and beetle ravaged trees throughout the west combined with reduced firefighting budgets do not bode well for the coming weeks.
May. 13, 2013
The Gang of Eight is calling for 90 percent effectiveness across the border. But a new study suggests eliminating a key factor from the effectiveness equation.
May. 13, 2013
The Tijuana perfume salesman, who said he didn't know drugs were in the car, won an appeal after the government destroyed evidence in the case.
May. 13, 2013
Northern Arizona University biologists have pinpointed the source of one of the deadliest plagues of all time. The discovery not only solves some ancient mysteries about the first pandemic, but could also provide answers in the event of a bioterrorism threat.
May. 13, 2013
The week's top stories from Fronteras: The Changing America Desk.
May. 11, 2013
Fronteras Desk is in Central America for two weeks. We're further south in this hemisphere than we've ever been. And as we always do, we'll come back with a few tales — reminders of just how connected our seemingly distant worlds really are.
May. 10, 2013
A federal judge has ordered the government to release a video used as evidence in the case of a San Diego-area Border Patrol agent accused of kneeing and choking a detained border crosser.
May. 10, 2013
With drought affecting much of the Southwest, the Navajo Nation is working to bring water to its citizens with the tribal government recently approving more than $8 million for water infrastructure projects.
May. 10, 2013
Eleven million has become the most cited statistic in the immigration reform debate. We take a closer look at the number.
May. 10, 2013

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