Border Patrol Using Eminent Domain Laws To Seize Land

Border Patrol Using Eminent Domain Laws To Seize Land

Mary Mata August 28, 2013

By  Michel Marizco, Fronteras TUCSON, Ariz. — The U.S. Border Patrol has decided it wants to use a slice of Tony Sedgwick’s land. Not much, a quarter of an acre. He […]

Tracing the U.S. / Mexico Border Wall

Mary Mata August 6, 2013

This article was suggested by Taquista Ito Romo. By Hillary Mushkin, kcet.org Last November, a group of artists, art historians, students, a U.S. veteran, and others gathered to sketch, walk along […]

US-Mexico border: The ‘Cicatriz’ of Tecate

Mary Mata July 30, 2013

By Johanna Mendelson Forman, Voxxi Tecate is a small border town of 65,000 people that serves as a gateway to the Mexican state of Baja California. It is famous for […]

Arizona Mayors Share County On Mexican Border, But Not View On Immigration Reform

Mary Mata July 9, 2013

By Danielle Schlanger, Huffington Post Latino Voices Cochise County, Ariz., a rural swath of desert larger than Connecticut and Rhode Island combined, shares an 82-mile border with Sonora, Mexico. Daniel Ortega, Jr., the Democratic […]

Two Border Villages Reunite For One Day

Mary Mata May 31, 2013

By Lorne Matalon, Fronteras 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 […]

Out of Mexico’s Violence: Cultural Renaissance On the Border

Mary Mata March 7, 2013

By Louis Nevaer, New America Media MEXICO CITY – Mexican youths living in border cities from Tijuana to Ciudad Juarez are reclaiming civil society via cultural movements emerging on the heels […]