By Al Macias, John Rosman Fronteras News Desk PHOENIX — The Maricopa County Recorder’s Office is launching a Spanish-language voter awareness program, in hopes of avoiding possible confusion about the date of the Nov. 6 general election. This comes after County Recorder Helen Purcell announced two pieces of printed information with the incorrect date had [...]
Commentary: Mexico’s new administration needs to make border security a priority
By Nelson Balido Rio Grande Guardian SAN ANTONIO – A study released earlier this year by the Pew Hispanic Center caught my attention, and its findings might require observers of U.S.-Mexico relations to recalibrate their thinking. According to Pew data, immigration – legal and illegal – from Mexico to the United States has flat-lined. The [...]
Two more Arizona sites win national historic landmark designation
By Cale Ottens Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior has declared two Arizona sites national historic landmarks – one from the state’s prehistory and the other from a darker time in modern history. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday gave the designation to a World War II-era Japanese-American internment camp near [...]
High-cost zero-tolerance strategy shows little effect on illegal immigration
By Christina Marie Duran Borderzine EL PASO — The U.S. government started Operation Streamline a “zero-tolerance” border enforcement strategy, at the Del Rio sector in Texas in 2005 in an attempt to stem the flow of millions of undocumented Mexicans who leave their families and homes every year to cross the border into the U.S. [...]
20 Years Later, Environmentalists Still Unhappy With NAFTA
By Adrian Florido Fronteras News Desk TIJUANA, Mexico — In eastern Tijuana, near warehouses and factories manufacturing televisions and medical supplies to be shipped abroad, there are four concrete basketball courts. They’re sometimes used for tournaments, but are otherwise usually quiet. The edge of a sprawling industrial complex seems a strange place for the government-owned [...]
Hispanic U.S. history traced from Columbus to 21st Century
Dr. Lino García, Jr. Rio Grande Guardian EDINBURG, TX – On October 12, 1492, Cristóbal Colón and his Spanish crew aboard three ships, La Pinta, La Niña and La Santa María, sailed from the mother country of Spain and landed on what later became known as America. Thus began the colonization of the New World, [...]
