Fronteras Desk News
The week's top stories from Fronteras: The Changing America Desk.
Mar. 9, 2013
Some Republicans say the Department of Homeland Security is exaggerating the harm sequestration will cause border security.
Mar. 8, 2013
The Havasupai Tribe and environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service for allowing a uranium mining company to operate six miles outside of Grand Canyon National Park.
Mar. 8, 2013
A man detained in New Mexico won a $15 million settlement in court this month. The settlement is reportedly one of the largest ever awarded in a prisoner civil rights case.
Mar. 8, 2013
Crime rates in Indian Country are more than twice the national average. But for decades antiquated criminal codes have limited what tribal courts could do. That’s changing now: the Hopi Tribe has recently revised its criminal code and as a result is regaining a degree of tribal sovereignty in its court system.
Mar. 8, 2013
The head of northern Arizona's FBI Office talked about what it's like to be an agent on Indian Country and offered insight into reservation crime.
Mar. 7, 2013
President Obama signed the Violence Against Women Act Thursday. The reauthorization enhanced protections for Native American, undocumented and LGBT communities.
Mar. 7, 2013
Asian Americans have their own concerns as they await immigration reform legislation, among them endless visa backlogs affecting would-be Asian immigrants and laws that have led to the deportation of many Southeast Asians who arrived legally.
Mar. 7, 2013
Today's excellent column by Yahoo! MLB writer Jeff Passan pretty much sums up the intersection of professional baseball and the nationalist climate swirling in the air of its seasonal host.
Mar. 7, 2013
What happens if you refuse to answer the questions agents ask at a Border Patrol checkpoint?
Mar. 7, 2013
Among the 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country, some 40 percent entered the U.S. legally with a temporary visa. But once they arrived, they decided to stay.
Mar. 7, 2013
Before the controversy surfaced around ICE's release of detainees due to budget cuts, the agency had quietly begun to use a new instrument to decide which immigrants to hold in its custody.
Mar. 7, 2013
For the second semester in a row, San Diego State University's Chicano Studies department has fallen short of enrollment targets, despite a record number of Latinos on campus.
Mar. 6, 2013
The richest man in the world and his stronghold on his country's internet connectivity.
Mar. 6, 2013
The offices of a newspaper and a television station in Ciudad Juarez were hit in a drive-by shooting early Wednesday morning. No one was injured.
Mar. 6, 2013
Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords appeared Wednesday at the Tucson Safeway where she was shot by gunman two years ago.
Mar. 6, 2013
President Barack Obama has issued a major disaster declaration for the Navajo Nation. This announcement triggers the release of funds to repair the tribe’s broken water lines.
Mar. 5, 2013
The Hualapai tribal corporation that managed the Grand Canyon Skywalk filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week. This comes after a federal judge upheld a $28 million judgement in favor of the Skywalk developer.
Mar. 5, 2013
A Texas lawmaker is introducing a bill to prevent hobbyists form flying drones in the Lone Star sky.
Mar. 5, 2013
The immigration debate has morphed into two points of contention — the pathway to citizenship and border security. A program offers are rare glimpse of both.
Mar. 5, 2013
