Fronteras Desk News
Arizona Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs is in contact with White House officials to address concerns about overwhelming migration numbers at the southern border.
Dec. 28, 2022
Federal penalties have increased under a newly signed law intended to protect the cultural patrimony of Native American tribes, immediately making some crimes a felony and doubling the prison time for anyone convicted of multiple offenses.
Dec. 27, 2022
Throughout the year, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott have been busing migrants seeking asylum to Washington, D.C. Three more buses from Texas arrived in D.C. on Christmas Eve.
Dec. 25, 2022
Hundreds of bird species live in or migrate to Sonora, Mexico. But while it attracts birders from abroad, few Sonorans have taken up the hobby. But some hope an annual bird counting event will help change that.
Dec. 25, 2022
Mexico is implementing a new program meant to better coordinate health care across the country, and it’s being piloted in Sonora.
Dec. 22, 2022
Mexico’s transition to renewable energy is focused on Sonora - where major lithium and solar plants are planned. And leaders now say they have secured funding for those projects.
Dec. 22, 2022
Gov. Doug Ducey has agreed to remove all the shipping containers he has installed along the border. A press aide says the move comes as a deal was made with the Biden Administration.
Dec. 22, 2022
At an aging mission in northern Sonora, each passing year brings more damage to an invaluable historic site. There have been many attempts to protect what remains, but some involved say the current effort is the most promising to date.
Dec. 21, 2022
Wednesday marked the day Title 42, the pandemic-era restriction on asylum at the border, was supposed to end by court order. That date is in limbo again after the Supreme Court put a temporary hold on the termination at the request of a filing by 19 GOP-led states, including Arizona.
Dec. 21, 2022
President Joe Biden pledged to work closer with America’s tribes, and has taken a number of steps to fulfill that pledge.
The president recently took another.
Dec. 21, 2022
Family members of Peru’s recently ousted president have arrived in Mexico to receive political asylum. Their arrival comes as tensions grow between the two countries.
Dec. 21, 2022
In the wake of the incident, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador condemned the attack on Ciro Gómez Leyva, and promised a full investigation of the attempted murder.
Dec. 20, 2022
On Monday afternoon, opposing criminal groups had a car-to-car shootout in the major port city near the popular beach town of San Carlos.
Dec. 20, 2022
The Supreme Court has temporarily halted plans to end Title 42. The pandemic-era protocol was set to end by court order Dec. 21, but the high court siding with a coalition of more than a dozen GOP-led states asking for an emergency stay. A court is expected to rule on the future of the protocol later this week.
Dec. 19, 2022
Rocky Point's mayor says that the Mexican Marines, state emergency response personnel and even private fishing boat operators are involved in the search effort.
Dec. 19, 2022
Sun- and lithium-rich Sonora has come to figure prominently in Mexico's clean energy plans.
Dec. 19, 2022
The federal government is suing Arizona over a state-funded project to build a border wall of shipping containers on Forest Service land in Cochise County. But a grassroots coalition of activists shut down construction weeks ago.
Dec. 19, 2022
Sonora's governor described the now closed section as a weak link in the state's transportation infrastructure. With the exception of thrill seekers, no one is going to miss the infamous Curvas de Quijano.
Dec. 16, 2022
That comes after a broader constitutional reform of electoral policy was unable to get enough votes to pass.
Dec. 16, 2022
A new lawsuit seeks to force the United States to reach a decision on a 2014 petition that requested sanctions against Mexico for not adequately protecting the critically endangered vaquita porpoise in the Upper Gulf of California.
Dec. 16, 2022
