Fronteras Desk News
Activists who focus on improving working conditions at border manufacturing plants, known as maquiladoras, seem to joining the list of the latest random victims in Mexico’s incessant drug war.
Sep. 27, 2012
The Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court's order barring Maricopa County Sheriff's Officers from detaining people on the sole basis they are in the country illegally. MCSO lawyers had been hoping for a reversal while at the same time insisting they didn't intend to do the banned practice.
Sep. 27, 2012
Traditionally the Navajo Tribe instills a sense of belonging from day one. But there's a lost generation that's trying to reconnect.
Sep. 27, 2012
A nonprofit's survey found that additional voting requirements in 23 states could conspire to keep Latinos and other minorities from the polls.
Sep. 26, 2012
We now have two buildings along the border named for murdered agents -- Brian Terry and Kris Eggle.
Sep. 26, 2012
Spanish news network Univision is hosting the debate among candidates for one of the largest congressional districts in the nation.
Sep. 25, 2012
High-ranking policy makers and business leaders from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border are meeting outside of Phoenix to discuss next steps for the binational relationship. Trade between the two countries is at record levels, but those at the conference say the relationship hasn't reached it's full potential.
Sep. 25, 2012
What once became a ghost town after dark is now pulsing of life. But some in the United States are still afraid of Ciudad Juarez.
Sep. 25, 2012
I'll never the know the reason for sure, but in more than a decade of reporting on the U.S.-Mexico border, I've been able to sidestep getting into trouble.
Sep. 24, 2012
Since its inception in 1994, NADBANK has invested $1.2 billion in 155 projects on both sides of the border.
Sep. 24, 2012
The deteriorating security situation not only makes Nuevo Laredo a dangerous place to live, it also makes it close to impossible for reporters to do their job safely.
Sep. 21, 2012
The new system aims to reach out to California's six million eligible citizens who are not registered to vote.
Sep. 21, 2012
New documents recently gathered by the Fronteras Desk give some new insight into what’s now become a nearly two year-long hunt for the killers of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
Sep. 21, 2012
One grassroots effort is riding on anti-Arpaio sentiment to engage voters who might otherwise not go to the polls.
Sep. 21, 2012
Joe Arpaio is looking to win his sixth term as sheriff of Arizona's Maricopa County in November. How does he campaign for an office he's held for nearly two decades?
Sep. 21, 2012
Once upon a time, if you were a Latino school kid known by your Latino name, you were lucky.
Sep. 21, 2012
An oil refinery explosion in a Mexican city on the Texas border left more than two dozen workers dead and many more injured.
Sep. 20, 2012
Arizona border sheriff Larry Dever died Tuesday in an automobile accident. For more than a decade, he pressed the U.S. government to bring some order to the 84 miles of border that Cochise County shares with Mexico.
Sep. 20, 2012
The DOJ watchdog's report placed much of the blame for the botched gun walking operation on Phoenix-based personnel with ATF and the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Sep. 20, 2012
They had been threatening to do it for a while. I'd look at them, knowing smiles plastered on their faces, and shake my head.
Sep. 20, 2012
