Fronteras Desk News
What term do you use to define an immigrant living in the United States illegally?
Apr. 5, 2013
Center for Investigative Reporting finds the U.S. Border Patrol has caught a fraction of the border crossers spotted by a sophisticated sensor mounted on unmanned spy aircraft and flown over remote stretches of desert. This revelation casts doubts on claims that the area is more secure than ever
Apr. 5, 2013
Mexican journalist Sandra Rodríguez Nieto will receive this year's Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism, in a ceremony this summer.
Apr. 4, 2013
The U.S. Department of Energy says its wants to send 3 million gallons of radioactive tank waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation to a storage site in New Mexico. That’s 3 million gallons out of a total of 56 million gallons of some of the most toxic stuff on earth.
Apr. 4, 2013
WIPP has been prohibited from receiving Hanford Nuclear Reservation tank waste for nearly a decade. Now, New Mexicans are debating whether to reverse course and accept some of the waste.
Apr. 4, 2013
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego runs a program that gives low-level migrant smugglers a chance to get straight with the law, before they get a record.
Apr. 4, 2013
A Paris auction house plans to sell 70 sacred Native American artifacts. The northern Arizona Hopi Tribe is outraged and wants them back.
Apr. 3, 2013
Arizona State Sen. Steve Smith says in the coming weeks a plan to build Arizona’s controversial border fence will be unveiled.
Apr. 3, 2013
Perhaps at any other bar, the inability to find an empty chair might be reason to turn around and take your crew elsewhere. But at the Kentucky Club on Saturday night, this was reason to celebrate.
Apr. 3, 2013
During the month of March, 45 homicides were reported in Ciudad Juarez. The deaths mark a spike, and growing concern during a relatively calm period for the border city.
Apr. 3, 2013
The town of Bisbee, Ariz., voted Tuesday night to become the first city in the state to allow civil unions for gay couples.
Apr. 3, 2013
The Navajo Nation has one of the highest crime rates of any Indian reservation in the country. One of the critical issues it faces right now is lack of funding for much-needed new jails.
Apr. 3, 2013
During today's oral argument over a provision of Arizona's SB 1070 law, one of the judges criticized the way the law was written as "nonsense."
Apr. 2, 2013
The Associated Press has dropped the term "illegal immigrant," and so have we.
Apr. 2, 2013
The agency had warned of long border waits and fewer agents on the ground, but those haven't come to pass.
Apr. 2, 2013
In a blog post the Associated Press announced the organization would no longer use the term "illegal immigrant."
Apr. 2, 2013
H-1B visas are are given out on a yearly on a first-come, first-served basis. This year employers might snatch up all the visas in as few as five days.
Apr. 2, 2013
Hundreds of union supporters marked Cesar Chavez Day by marching in downtown San Diego on Monday. Labor's evolving stance on immigration was on display.
Apr. 2, 2013
The Ninth Circuit is hearing oral arguments over a section of Arizona’s SB 1070 law that makes knowingly transporting and harboring undocumented immigrants a state crime.
Apr. 2, 2013
When it comes to the controversial unmanned aircraft known as drones, business is booming. That could mean scores of new jobs for San Diego, but privacy defenders say courting the drone industry could cost us our civil liberties.
Apr. 2, 2013
