La Prensa San Diego

By Laura Carlsen His name was José Antonio Elena Rodriguez. At 16, he was just finishing junior high and living with his grandmother on the Mexican side of the border city of Nogales. On October 13, 2012, José Antonio was hit by a hail of bullets coming from the U.S. side of the metal fence [...]

By Nancy Landa MundoCitizen (Editor’s note: DREAMer Nancy Landa’s first-hand experience of removal proceedings by US Citizens and Immigration Services (USCIS)) I set foot on American soil as I got off the bus which had arrived at the San Ysidro-Tijuana border. U.S. Immigration officers were standing ready to hand over to each of us a [...]

Commentary: By Pedro Rios In less than six weeks four tragic deaths – 3 civilians and 1 Border Patrol agent – have marred the U.S.-Mexico border. In the most recent case, 16-year old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez was shot dead after allegedly being involved in a rock-throwing incident on, October 10 in Nogales, Sonora. These [...]

Frontera NorteSur Across the Rio Grande and over numerous desert land crossings, the golden scraps of U.S. throwaway society head south. Used clothes, appliances, cars and other commodities are shipped to the huge, second-hand Mexican market where low wages guarantee steady sales. And during the last five years or so, a new market has opened [...]

By Geneva Gámez-Vallejo     You’ve heard of MoMA, New York’s Museum of Modern Art but you probably haven’t heard of MoMita, Casa Familiar’s newest housing project translated into an exhibition at the facility’s The Front located in San Ysidro.     The show features two progressive architectural designs: “Living Rooms at the Border” or “El Salon” [...]

Photos and story by David Bacon New American Media TIERRA DEL SOL, CA — The tiny towns in the borderland of East San Diego County —Campo, Boulevard and Tierra del Sol— mark the road north for hundreds of migrants as they cross the border and travel on. Hardly any migrants stay — just those who [...]

By David Bacon     While the criminalization of undocumented people in Arizona continues to draw headlines, the actual punishment of workers because of their immigration status has become an increasingly bitter fact of life across the country. The number of workplace raids carried out by the Obama administration is staggering. Tens, maybe even hundreds of [...]

By Kent Paterson Frontera NorteSur     As the marimba band rolled out its sounds and the marigolds honored the departed at a recent Day of the Dead annual celebration in El Paso, visitors to the lively festivity at Centro Mayapan were greeted by a petition and a flyer. In part, the flyer read:     More [...]

By Regina Ip     The United States and Mexico share a 2000-mile border where a population of 9 million is growing more than twice as fast as the populations of U.S. and Mexico.     Despite this growing population, the border region is confronted with many environmental health issues because of the lack of clean drinking [...]

Frontera NorteSur     A Mexican national who died after a confrontation with US border agents has become the latest symbol of the crisis surrounding US-Mexico relations and migrant affairs.     Anastasio Hernandez Rojas, a 42-year-old father of five US-born children, died in a California hospital May 31, following a violent encounter with US Customs and [...]

Anastasio Rojas golpeado salvajemente por Agentes Por Mariana Martinez       Las luces amarillas apenas iluminaban levemente el bulto que era el cuerpo y era difícil saber si estaba sangrando o cubierto en sudor.     Segun recuerda “Juan” un migrante de 62 años quien pidió no revelar su identidad a los medios, Anastasio Hernández Rojas, [...]

By Mariana Martinez     “I saw how the hill was sliding down, the authorities came in yesterday to take us out of our homes, they told us the hill was collapsing. At 5 am Monday my house collapsed completely” said 54 year old Juan Sandoval just one of the dozen homeowners who lost their homes [...]

By Mariana Martinez Estens     Mexican President Felipe Calderon has publicly condemned the passing of SB 1070 in Arizona, a law that will allow any authority to ask for immigration status of those who “appear to be undocumented.”     Calderon has publicly said this change in the law is tainted by an electoral process and [...]

Perspective: By Kent Paterson Editor Frontera NorteSur     Mexico and the border are once again big news. Stories fill the press about Michele Obama and Hilary Clinton traveling south of the border to show their support for an embattled government. Report after report comes in about the latest atrocities in the so-called narco-war. Journalists rush [...]

 Alert has a negative impact in tourism By Mariana Martinez “A friend woke us up in a panic, begging for us to go back to US soil, and since then we have been swamped by emails and calls about the US travel alert,” tells 51 year old Seattle Washington truck driver, Dawn Rainmann. “But what [...]

Por Mariana Martinez “Una amiga nos despertó con su llamada histérica ayer, pidiendo que volviéramos a suelo estadounidense, nos han inundado con llamadas, correos, alertas, advirtiéndonos de la medida de Estados Unidos”, cuenta Dawn Rainmann chofer de tráiler originaria de Seattle, de 51 años de edad. “Pero nosotros lo que hemos visto es una ciudad [...]

International Women’s Day By Kent Paterson By most accounts, she was an outgoing girl who loved to sing and dance. Tejana legend Selena was her idol. The John Adams Middle School student loved sports, books and butterflies. And she was someone whose smile could lift a depressed person’s heart. That’s how relatives remembered 15-year-old Jamie [...]