Fronteras Desk News
Enough signatures have been gathered to hold a recall election. Opponents are challenging the signatures, claiming there are irregularities and say the election should not be held.
Aug. 9, 2011
Obesity and diabetes rates are worsening throughout the Southwest, especially in ethnic communities and low income neighborhoods. Experts say making fresh food more widely available is key to reversing the trend. In San Diego, one market is a trailblazer.
Aug. 8, 2011
Twelve hours after Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio celebrated Tent City's 18th anniversary, shots were fired outside the compound - leaving one inmate with shrapnel in her leg.
Aug. 5, 2011
The project's original goal was to see if eight humans could survive two years in an enclosed ecosystem that creates its own air, food and water? The result was no. Now scientists are using the controlled environment to study climate change.
Aug. 5, 2011
The indictment states two Border Patrol agents grabbed four Mexican men caught smuggling drugs, made them eat their own marijuana and forced them to remove most of their clothing in the cold desert.
Aug. 5, 2011
“The administration has no statutory authority to circumvent the will of the people or Congress to make this order.” – Rachel Parsons, NRA spokeswoman.
Aug. 5, 2011
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio celebrated the 18th anniversary of his signature incarceration project: Tent City. The party at the jail included cake, an Elvis impersonator and Arpaio's own serenade to the inmates: Frank Sinatra's "My Way".
Aug. 4, 2011
Undocumented immigrant activists from Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah recently gathered in Las Vegas to learn tools to keep their campaign for the Dream Act alive. Though there is not much hope for passage in the near future, they continue to organize. In the process, they are coming out openly about their undocumented status.
Aug. 4, 2011
“They do want answers to their questions. Right now, they’ve been continually misled" – Paul Charlton, hired to represent Brian Terry's family.
Aug. 4, 2011
Police in the Mexican state of Baja California may be getting security training from a law enforcement agency literally located across the globe in Israel.
Aug. 3, 2011
The FDA has just approved an antivenom that is effective against potentially deadly scorpion bites, which are common throughout the Southwest. It is believed to be the first time the regulatory agency approves a scorpion antivenom.
Aug. 3, 2011
A memorial in Austin, Texas is being built to remember the descendants of Spanish explorers who first settled the region. The 550-square-foot monument will be the largest of its kind on the grounds of any state capitol in the country.
Aug. 3, 2011
Chevron, USA is the latest in a series of companies asked to clean up the pollution on the Indian reservation, which has spread to neighboring properties and water wells.
Aug. 2, 2011
“To me that is by far the most interesting allegation made in this motion...because the motion makes representation that a high-ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel was in fact promised immunity by the federal government,” said Lawrence Rosenthal, a law professor.
Aug. 2, 2011
There is a worldwide shortage of of antivenom, in part, because there is little economic incentive for drug companies to produce it. Despite the expense and challenge, a Mexican company is a leader in the production of anti-venom and wants to sell it to the world, including the United States. In the last of a two-part series exploring this public health issue, travel to Mexico to learn how horses are key to producing the antivenom.
Aug. 2, 2011
There are nearly 40,000 people in immigration detention around the country on any given day. About 15 percent of them suffer from mental illness -- the same percentage seen in the wider prison population. But unlike in federal or state prisons, there's little oversight or regulation of medical treatment in immigrant detention facilities. And that's led to some people being lost in the system.
Aug. 1, 2011
During the recent federal debt ceiling debate in Washington D.C., Tea Party members of Congress have been instrumental in the negotiations towards a deal. George Rodríguez, president of the San Antonio Tea Party, is inviting fellow Latinos to embrace the small government approach.
Jul. 31, 2011
Antivenom is dangerously low or exhausted in many parts of the U.S. In the first part of a series looking at this public health issue, it turns out the solution may be a drug from Mexico credited with saving lives throughout the Southwest "Venom Belt."
Jul. 31, 2011
Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez is accused of ordering the shooting that killed a U.S. consulate worker and a sheriff's deputy from El Paso in Juarez last year.
Jul. 31, 2011
The State Bar of California is contemplating whether to admit a new lawyer to its ranks: An undocumented immigrant who passed the tough bar exam in 2009.
Jul. 29, 2011
