By Lorne Matalon Fronteras News Desk IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RIO GRANDE — In the rural border areas of Texas, seven so-called ‘informal crossings’ were shut down following Sept. 11. These were border villages and rural economies that thrived on their interdependence. The actual border was invisible. But the shutdown destroyed that connection. Recently, [...]
Border wall issue divides Texas’ Starr County leaders
By Steve Taylor Rio Grande Guardian RIO GRANDE CITY – Opinion is divided among elected officials and business leaders in Starr County over plans to build border walls in Roma and Rio Grande City. Starr County Judge Eloy Vera says his opinion on border walls has changed. He used to be strongly opposed to them. [...]
Farmers, farmworkers look to immigration reform to fix ‘flawed’ H-2A visas
By Michelle Peirano Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – Francisco Duarte stood in the Arizona sun with little shade or water for hours, waiting to go pick lemons. But he never complained. That’s because the guest worker from San Luis, Mexico, was afraid that if he did he would be replaced by an undocumented worker willing [...]
A tale of unwritten Mexican-American history told on the Mississippi Delta Tamale Trail
By Jacqueline Armijo Borderzine EL PASO — Fresh steaming tamales are sold out of small shacks, directly from vans, and by “tamale ladies” from their homes all along the “Tamale Trail” on the good old Mississippi Delta. “There is a tradition among some African-Americans in Mississippi, Louisiana, little dots on a map going all the [...]
Cinco de Mayo. Not Cinco de Drinko —Ongoing war between cultural identity vesus American marketing.
By Frank X. Moraga AmigosNAZ A cultural battle is being waged on the streets of America and those fighting it must at times feel like the Mexican patriots on May 5, 1862 — shivering during a cold morning in their white peasant shirts and pantalones, straw sombreros and huarache Mexican sandals, carrying rusty and antiquated [...]
San Diego, Tijuana Hope For First Binational Olympics
By Adrian Florido Fronteras Newsdesk SAN DIEGO — San Diego and Tijuana are submitting a joint bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. News of a joint bid emerged late last week, when the head of the U.S. Olympic Committee confirmed to the Associated Press that San Diego and Tijuana want to co-host the summer [...]
