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U.S. Congressman says Mexico’s insecurity has now got to be viewed as one of biggest foreign policy issues confronting United States

Nov 5, 2014, 1:14 PM 0

By Steve Taylor Rio Grande Guardian BROWNSVILLE, TX — U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela recently told the Rio Grande Guardian that insecurity in Tamaulipas and across Mexico has now got to be viewed as one of the biggest foreign policy…

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Initiative eases transition back to Mexico for those deported through Nogales

Oct 28, 2014, 1:30 PM 0

By Brittany Ducksworth Cronkite News NOGALES, Sonora, Mexico – Deported after 25 years in the United States on domestic violence charges, Jose Castellea stepped off a bus here at the border gate eight days ago with only the clothes…

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EPA Funds Border Projects

Oct 20, 2014, 9:17 AM 0

Frontera NorteSur The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced this month new funding for environmental projects in U.S. and Mexican border communities. Totaling more than $8.6 million, grants are being awarded in conjunction with the San Antonio-based North…

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Herbal remedies big sellers in wellness strategies for Hispanics

Oct 6, 2014, 11:18 AM 0

By Marilyn Aleman Borderzine EL PASO— When it comes to trying to keep bodies healthy in the fit-vs-fat wars, this predominately Hispanic border city leans toward natural solutions. Seventy percent of residents here and across the border in Cuidad…

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Climate Ironies Expose Vulnerable Borderlands

Sep 25, 2014, 10:54 AM 0

Frontera NorteSur New York City made history when hundreds of thousands of people gathered in September to demand real action on curbing climate change, as the United Nations Climate Summit prepared to convene. September, which followed the hottest August…

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U.S. Congressmen Demand Freedom for US citizen and Mexican police commander Nestora Salgado

Sep 16, 2014, 8:09 AM 0

Frontera NorteSur The imprisonment of a Mexican woman police commander is increasingly a hot issue between the United States and Mexico. Nine members of the U.S. Congress sent a letter August 29 to Secretary of State John Kerry urging…

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Texas border-deployed National Guard troops not being fed

Aug 29, 2014, 8:49 AM 0

By Luis Montoya Rio Grande Guardian BROWNSVILLE, TX — State Rep. René Oliveira says he is “appalled and embarrassed” that National Guard troops are being forced to ask local charities for a hot meal while serving on the border….

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Deferred Action has benefited more than 400,000 young Mexicans

Aug 20, 2014, 11:38 AM 0

By Erasmo Martínez Martínez Rio Grande Guardian McALLEN, TX — Last Friday, August 15th, marked two years since the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA) entered into force. Since then, the Embassy of Mexico and the network of…

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Midwives mix tradition, science to curb maternal deaths in Chiapas

Aug 12, 2014, 12:39 PM 0

By Lauren Loftus Cronkite News Service BOCHIL, Chiapas, Mexico – “Una nina,” the old woman said with a smile. A girl. Known simply as Doña Mercedes, the midwife had made this diagnosis after pressing wrinkled hands down hard on…

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Grassroots Rios Online Radio to promote El Paso music talent

Aug 1, 2014, 8:43 AM 0

By Nancy Lorain Watters Borderzine EL PASO — Beer bottles clink in the hands of burly men as ACDC pounds on the speakers. Under the sound of televisions playing football games, a faint chatter can be heard on the…

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Poll: Most Rio Grande Valley residents feel less safe

Jul 24, 2014, 2:25 PM 0

By Steve Taylor Rio Grande Guardian EDINBURG, TX — Only one in four Rio Grande Valley residents feel safer living on the U.S.-Mexico border today than they did five years ago, according to a new opinion poll. The Pulse…

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Rio Grande Valley’s La Unión del Pueblo Entero sends White House its proposals for immigration reform

Jul 15, 2014, 9:02 AM 0

By Steve Taylor Rio Grande Guardian SAN JUAN, TX — La Unión del Pueblo Entero (LUPE), which represents 7,000 colonia and low-income families in the Rio Grande Valley, has written to President Obama with recommendations on how to fix…

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More Hispanics go to college after high school, but less actually graduate

Jul 7, 2014, 1:16 PM 0

By Jessica Salcedo Borderzine EL PASO — Eight years ago, when 24-year-old Rosalie Aguirre moved from Durango, México to El Paso to receive an education, she had no idea of the multiple steps she would have to take to…

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TX US Rep Cuellar: “Mexican leaders cannot believe the United States has not responded to its offer to help secure the southwest border”

Jun 20, 2014, 2:23 PM 0

By Steve Taylor Rio Grande Guardian McALLEN, TX — Mexican leaders cannot believe the United States has not responded to its offer to help secure the southwest border and they wonder just how much commitment its neighbor to the…

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Caring for thousands of children crossing illegally into the U.S. to cost $868 million in 2014

Jun 12, 2014, 10:08 AM 0

By Hecko Flores Borderzine EL PASO – Employees at a children’s shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, found 12-year-old Noemi Alvarez Quillay’s lifeless body hanging from a shower-curtain rod last March. The Ecuadorian girl had been trying to cross the…

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Brownsville Bishop Flores warns Sec. of State Kerry of an ‘unfolding disaster’ on South Texas-Mexico border

May 22, 2014, 11:30 AM 0

By Raul de la Cruz Rio Grande Guardian BROWNSVILLE, TX – Expanding on comments he made to Rio Grande Valley reporters at the San Juan Basilica on World Communications Day, Bishop Daniel E. Flores has sent a powerful letter…

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Latina teenage pastry chef brings artistic skills to cake decoration

May 15, 2014, 2:25 PM 0

By Serjio A. Gonzales Borderzine EL PASO — Teenager Naomi Gil’s colorful and carefully mastered pieces of confectionary art and other gooey baked goods leave customers in amazement when they see these artistic pastries inside the display cases at…

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Mexico is thinking of setting up its own Border Patrol

May 7, 2014, 2:16 PM 0

By Steve Taylor Rio Grande Guardian MISSION, TX — They are in the early stages but discussions are taking place about Mexico setting up its own Border Patrol. Details were revealed by U. S. Rep. Henry Cuellar in an…

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Sponsorships build bridges in the lives of San Diego youth

May 5, 2014, 10:34 AM 0

By Pablo J. Sáinz La Prensa San Diego Norma Varela is not like most 16-year-olds. When she learned she was going to receive a $2,000 sponsorship through A Bridge for Kids, a San Diego non-profit that connects needy teenagers…

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ImpreMedia CEO — Latino journalism is now less about language and culture and more about competing as major media

May 2, 2014, 1:20 PM 0

By Rebecca Grant Borderzine EL PASO — The Chief Executive Officer of ImpreMedia, the nation’s leading Hispanic Media Company, told students at the University of Texas at El Paso that media today must inform, educate and empower communities. Born…

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Commentary: Arresting Babies on the Border

Apr 23, 2014, 10:51 AM 0

By Scott Nicol Rio Grande Guardian McALLEN, TX — “They’re arresting babies.” The thought struck hard, and it kept echoing. I had come to the border wall with a correspondent from National Public Radio to see its impact on…

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Sticks and stones can break your bones but cyberbullying can kill you

Apr 17, 2014, 12:44 PM 0

By Helen Yip Borderzine EL PASO — Rudy Sanchez’ sad eyes peered through tears below the beanie that nearly covered them as he stood in the empty living room of his Lower Valley home where his 14-year-old daughter, Viviana…

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San Diego college hosts literary festival featuring bilingual works of writers and poets of the region

Apr 9, 2014, 9:30 AM 0

By Pablo J. Sáinz La Prensa San Diego Growing up between San Diego and Tijuana, Francisco Bustos soon discovered that the border became an inspiration for him to become a writer. “I started writing poetry in Spanglish, Ingleñol, English,…

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Momentum growing for Mexican American Studies course in Texas high schools

Apr 7, 2014, 12:53 PM 0

By Steve Taylor Rio Grande Guardian EDINBURG, TX — A Texas State Board of Education member says his efforts to allow school districts to provide Mexican American Studies have been boosted by the White House’s focus on Hispanic war…

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Death, Child Deportation Continue on the Migrant Trail

Mar 31, 2014, 9:46 AM 0

Frontera NorteSur A Mexican human rights defender said this week that the deportation of child migrants from his country has more than doubled. In remarks made at a conference in Oaxaca, Diego Lorente Perez de Eulante, director of the…

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