Frontera NorteSur A groundwater crisis is literally deepening in the Juarez Valley across from Texas. Mexican officials report that wells drilled to a depth of about 400 feet are drying up or producing poor quality water, forcing users to…
By Joey Gomez Rio Grande Guardian WESLACO, Rio Grande Valley – It’s not up to Texas to discriminate against immigrants and their children. That’s the message from attorneys for Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid, Inc. and the Texas Civil…
Borderzine Maricela Reyna and her family pay property tax on their home, located in an El Paso County colonia. Yet they lack access to municipal water and gas services. Instead, they hire a tanker truck to deliver water each…
By Steve Taylor Rio Grande Guardian MERCEDES, RGV – Forty six high school students from 11 school districts across the Rio Grande Valley are spending four days this week at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brown University and…
By José Antonio López Rio Grande Guardian One of the favorite descriptions used by advertising and news media to define San Antonio is “The Álamo City”. Also, the popular Spanish Mexican colonial church silhouette is a universal logo used…
By Hilda Mendoza Borderzine What started in El Paso 20 years ago as a brand new sport for girls, has grown today into a well-organized sports field with two private soccer academies. Soccer has become a popular sport in…
By Luis Gonzalez Borderzine EL PASO — Searching all over the northern parts of Mexico in 1976 for the origin of some pottery he found at a secondhand store in Deming, NM, Spencer MacCallum came to a town just…
By Tanya Carbajal Borderzine EL PASO — Emilio Solis Pallares,92, sits at his home in Fabens, Texas, listening with surprised amusement to his own voice for the first time 12 years after his story was cataloged along with the…
Frontera NorteSur Thousands of students with dreams of higher education have had their educational careers seriously disrupted in the northeastern border region of Mexico. In the state of Tamaulipas, for instance, extortion and threats of violence attributed to the…
By Angela Saavedra Borderzine In recent years, tattoos have transitioned from taboo to mainstream and are now being embraced by the art world, much like graffiti. “Tattoos are a part of pop culture now,” said Chris “Drts” Aragon of…
Frontera NorteSur BAJA, CA — Farmworker leaders, farm employers and Mexican government officials have initiated talks aimed at resolving a massive labor conflict connected to the U.S. food industry that’s rocking the border state of Baja California. Long-simmering labor…
By Steve Taylor Rio Grande Guardian AUSTIN, Texas – It has been a long time coming but, finally, supporters of southbound checkpoints on the southwest border believe they are gaining real momentum. On Wednesday, the Texas House tentatively passed…
By Aaron Montes Borderzine EL PASO — Blanca Luz Nava Vélez gripped the tissue with both hands as if it were about to float away from the tears forming in her eyes as she forced herself to speak through…
By José Antonio López Rio Grande Guardian Earlier this year, a ceremony was held in downtown San Antonio featuring a small cannon “thought” to have been fired at the 1836 Battle of the Álamo. It is the latest artifact…
Frontera NorteSur Martha Cecilia Gomez was visibly shaken as she pleaded for the whereabouts of her daughter. According to the Mexican mother, her 16-year-old daughter Paola Yaneth Alvarez left the family home in the central Mexican state of Aguascalientes…
By Laura Iesue Frontera NorteSur Editor’s Note: Often overshawdowed by other issues, HIV/AIDS continues claiming victims along the U.S-Mexico border and worldwide. In today’s story, New Mexico State University’s Laura Iesue, graduate student of sociology, outlines some of the…
By Elvin Alves Borderzine ELPASO – Two days after Rabbi Stephen Leon moved to El Paso from New Jersey in 1986, he received an urgent phone call from a Roman Catholic man wanting to speak with him about a…
By Steve Taylor Rio Grande Guardian McALLEN, RGV – Rio Grande Valley business and economic development leaders have started to push back against U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul’s plans to add more border walls and mount Afghanistan-type operation command centers…
Frontera NorteSur Tens of thousands of Mexican immigrants from the conflict-ridden, impoverished state of Guerrero have been deported from the United States since 2010. Netzahualcoyotl Bustamante Satin, Guerrero’s secretary for migrant and international affairs, said his state ranked third…
By Steve Taylor Rio Grande Guardian BROWNSVILLE, RGV – Congressman Filemon Vela has told Vice President Joe Biden in a letter that violent criminal activity in Tamaulipas has “ripped apart” the South Texas border region’s way of life and…
By Fredesvinda Rojas Borderzine CIUDAD JUÁREZ—Every fifteen days Edgar Rincón and his wife Verónica Martínez along with their two children Diego y Elena, walk towards the footbridge in front of Plaza Juárez Mall, to wait for the ruta, the…
By Aaron Montes Borderzine El Paso – Alexi Cruz may not have realized he had friends in this border community until he was on the verge of being deported. Cruz, 24, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who has lived…
By Fredesvinda Rojas Borderzine EL PASO— The Mexican experience in America, presented with verve as a celebration of the culture and and as a bulwark against negative stereotypes in popular art and media was dubbed Mextasy by Dr. William…
Frontera NorteSur Editor’s Note: The latest installment of Frontera NorteSur’s special coverage on the crisis in Mexico. On a frigid November night, candles illuminated the photos of 43 missing young men laid out on the patio of the Mexican…
By Laura Torres Borderzine EL PASO – The bride and groom stood on either side of the borderline on the Santa Fe International Bridge, the bride’s toes up against the U.S. side of the line, the groom’s shoes on…
