Fronteras Desk News
The union representing officers who process immigration applications declared its opposition Monday to the Senate immigration reform bill.
May. 21, 2013
The Sundance Film Institute says four Native American filmmakers will be on the Mescalero Apache reservation in Southern New Mexico this week. The visit is the first stage of development for Native writers and directors hoping to release independent films in the coming years.
May. 20, 2013
For one glorious moment, real world geopolitics was forgotten. Paso Lajitas, Mexico and Lajitas, Texas were again united — not cut off from one another as they’ve been in a post-Sept. 11 world.
May. 20, 2013
The San Diego-Tijuana region will soon have its first binational youth orchestra. Heightened border security and concerns about violence in Mexico can complicate such initiatives, but organizers say it’s worth the effort.
May. 20, 2013
Latinos are a fast-growing portion of the California Community College student body, so the system's lack of space squeezes them most.
May. 20, 2013
The week's top stories from Fronteras: The Changing America Desk.
May. 18, 2013
The Navajo Nation says the only financially viable future for its coal supply may be in clean coal technologies and overseas exports.
May. 17, 2013
A federal district judge declined to immediately halt a ban that prevents certain young immigrants from getting driver's licenses in Arizona. But his opinion also suggested there are legal problems with the current policy.
May. 17, 2013
John Rosenow is a fifth-generation dairy farmer, but times have changed since his Norwegian ancestors began farming in Cochrane, Wis. And Rosenow has changed with the times. Much of his workforce is now from Mexico, and Rosenow travels regularly to their village in southern Mexico to meet their families.
May. 17, 2013
Meeting members of one family who live on both sides of the border, when their own relatives can't visit.
May. 17, 2013
You might wonder why farmers won't just be able to keep the immigrant workers they have now. That's because immigration reform could shake up the industry.
May. 16, 2013
Former Guatemalan strongman Efraín Ríos Montt was convicted of genocide on May 10 by a national court. Some say the decision will sow more division in the country. I think it will do the opposite.
May. 16, 2013
Thirty-two felons were released from custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement earlier this year, according to a Senate subcommittee.
May. 16, 2013
A group of San Diego students joins the cooking show craze, learning nutrition, cooking and video production skills while capitalizing on the culinary richness of one of the nation's most diverse neighborhoods.
May. 16, 2013
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
