Category: Southwest
School project brought to life the idea of an El Paso-Juarez trolley line
By Amanda Duran Borderzine EL PASO – In an effort to explain the longstanding and sometimes complicated ties between border city El Paso, Texas and its Mexican sister city Juarez to fellow classmates at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Peter Svarzbein decided to create a fictional advertising campaign for the revival [...]
Young Immigrant Activists Who Can’t Vote Influence Those Who Can
By Devin Browne Fronteras News Desk PHOENIX — Last month, Time Magazine featured a 27-year-old undocumented immigrant activist from Phoenix in its list of the world’s 100 most influential people. The activist, Dulce Matuz, an advocate for undocumented migrant youth looking for a pathway to citizenship, was featured alongside Marco Rubio, the Middleton sisters, and [...]
Hispanic Mother-Daughter Program still going strong under new Arizona law
By Stephanie Snyder Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – Opponents of Proposition 107 had a favorite warning in the debate leading up to the vote. Pass the ban on racial preferences, they said, and it would mean the end of programs like Arizona State University’s Hispanic Mother-Daughter Program, which aims to increase the odds for Hispanic [...]
Medical Tourists Can Speed Through U.S.-Mexico Border Crossing
By Jude Joffe-Block Fronteras Desk MEXICALI, MX – The Mexican border town of Mexicali is making a push for more tourists from the American Southwest to visit that city’s dentists, surgeons and doctors. Starting April 30, medical tourists from the U.S. with the right documents will be able to skip much of the wait on [...]
Hundreds gathered outside Supreme Court for colorful, civil, SB 1070 protests
By VICTORIA PELHAM Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – Pedro Lopez drove more than 41 hours from Phoenix to the U.S. Supreme Court, where he took part in a 48-hour prayer vigil this week asking God to strike down Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law. The 19-year-old was one of hundreds of singing, chanting – but mostly [...]
The struggle for ethnic parity in U.S. media started with the American Revolution
By Kristian Hernandez Borderzine EL PASO — A modern day champion for a free press, fighting to maintain and safeguard the lessons learned and taught by persons of color in the history of American journalism made his way south to this border city. Latino author and journalist Joseph Torres stood before students at the University [...]
Tejano Monument will assist our self-identity
By Raul de la Cruz Rio Grande Guardian AUSTIN — The Guardian asked its good friend, Dan Arellano, president of the Tejano Genealogy Society of Austin, to give his thoughts on the historic Tejano Monument that was unveiled at the state Capitol.
Drug Traffickers Dupe Job Seekers Into Smuggling
By Jill Replogle Fronteras Desk They answer advertisements in Tijuana’s major newspapers offering jobs in the U.S., for instance, as house cleaners in San Diego. Or, they respond to ads simply seeking individuals with the proper paperwork to cross the border legally. Then, some of them get caught at the border with cocaine and marijuana [...]
Chicano activist Carlos Montes now fights for his own freedom
By Amanda Brinegar Borderzine EL PASO – El Paso born Carlos M. Montes has been a solidarity activist since the late 1960s, denouncing wars and fighting for immigration rights and better public education, but lately he can be seen surrounded by posters with a much different message –“Save Carlos Montes.” Wearing his black newsboy cap [...]
House Democrats file challenge of SB 1070 with Supreme Court
By Dustin Volz Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – House Democrats invoked the name of slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin on Tuesday as they filed a challenge to Arizona’s SB 1070, the immigration law to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court next month. The friend-of-the-court brief from 68 Democrats – including both from Arizona – [...]
