How to Help Families Separated at the Border

Ways to volunteer, ways to donate, ways to take action

"...policy of breaking up families who have crossed the U.S./Mexico border illegally has resulted in an estimated 2,000 children..."

June 20, 2018 Emergency Post by Kimberley Jones

Framing the Border

Photography of the Region Between Mexico and the U.S.

"...photograph by Byron Brauchli..."

May 1, 1998 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Cross-Border Craziness: Frontera Residents Blast ‘Frankenfence’

"...precinct caucus results trickle in from all along the Texas-Mexico border, a couple of things beyond candidate preferences are..."

March 10, 2008 News Post by Cheryl Smith

Friday’s Latinx Mega-Stream Proclaims Rock the Border, Stop the Wall, and Vote!

Online rally stars G-Fantasma, B-Pumas, G-Chavez y mucho mas

"...cultural synthesis of growing up in Laredo near the Texas/Mexico border, proved formative...."

Oct. 23, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

DVDanger: Mexico Barbaro

Anthology horror from Mexico

"...Horror cinema and Mexico go together like fangs and bloods. Hint: There's a..."

Nov. 10, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Rep. Talarico Shocked at Inhumane Border Facility Conditions During Tour

Austin-area lawmaker part of delegation that visited El Paso, Clint

"...Amid recent reports of abuse and neglect at U.S.-Mexico border facilities housing detained migrants, a delegation of state..."

July 2, 2019 News Post by Mary Tuma

Abbott to Send 1,000 National Guard Troops to Texas Border

Slams Congress as "reprobates" for failing border security

"...the deployment of 1,000 National Guard Troops to the border...."

June 21, 2019 News Post by Mary Tuma

New Documentary Shows the Beauty of the Border, and the Perils of a Barrier

The River and the Wall captures a wilderness without divisions

"...The idea of building a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico, from sea to..."

May 3, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Speaking Out From the Border

A new play by Gregory Ramos, Border Voices: An Intimate Theatrical Montage about Sex, Fear, and Love on the U.S.-Mexico Border revisits the complex symbolism of the border in the personal stories of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered individuals living in El Paso, Texas; Juarez, Mexico; and Las Cruces, New Mexico.

"...Chicano scholars and artists have often used the U.S.-Mexico border to explain the Mexican-American experience in a well-established..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta

The Flavors of Mexico

Gastronomic Gateways to Cuisine South of the Border

"...illustration by Penny Van Horn Mexico has long been a popular American tourist destination, offering..."

May 29, 1998 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Cross-Border Craziness

Judge says feds can take Eagle Pass land for fence, and more

"...federal government has won the latest round in the U.S.-Mexico border's Frankenfence battle. On Monday, Jan. 14, U.S. District..."

Jan. 25, 2008 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Cross-Border Craziness

Why frontera residents are appalled by the wall

"...opposing the federal government's planned fence/wall hybrid for the U.S.-Mexico border. (For a rundown of other pissed-off Texas precincts..."

March 21, 2008 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Imagined Mexico

A personal guide to three exhibits on Mexico through one bifurcated perspective

"...I learned at an early age that nothing about Mexico is ordinary. That idea continues to the present, except..."

April 16, 2010 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta

Cross-Border Craziness Continues

Erroneously deported man returns home; Congress urges action on Juarez murders

"...Los Angeles-area man who was mistakenly deported to Tijuana, Mexico, nearly three months ago was returned to his family..."

Aug. 17, 2007 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Once Upon a Time in Mexico

The third film in Robert Rodriguez’s south-of-the-border action trilogy is a whole lot of movie.

"...third "flick" (as the titles call it) in Rodriguez’s south-of-the-border action trilogy has a cool, shiny exterior and an..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Reps Outraged at "Inhumane" and "Dystopian" Conditions at Border

Willful neglect of human rights fuel funding effort

"...Amid recent reports of abuse and neglect at U.S.-Mexico border facilities housing detained migrants, a delegation of state..."

July 12, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Shapleigh on the Border

El Paso senator lays down the law on what's really important on cross-border crime

"...smuggling, and to reduce the criminal activities within the Border region." Enter everybody's favorite Democratic straight shooter, Sen. Eliot..."

July 9, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Cornyn Takes Wimpy Stance on Border

Senator addresses Border Trade Alliance via video at annual International Conference

"...Sen. John Cornyn thinks a wall along our southern border is “irrational” – um, except where we need one...."

Sept. 27, 2007 News Post by Lee Nichols

Border Militarization Update

Perry authorizes use of Texas National Guard at border; and El Paso County Sheriff's Office says will temporarily cease holding immigration stops and raids

"...call for deploying 6,000 National Guard troops to the Mexico border, Gov. Rick Perry authorized the use of 2,300..."

June 30, 2006 News Feature by Diana Welch

From Mexico With Love

An illegal migrant worker dreams of becoming a boxer but suffers setbacks in this film shot in San Antonio.

"...be confused with either Once Upon a Time in Mexico or From Russia With Love, the title becomes a..."

Oct. 16, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Toxic Border

Researchers ponder increasing birth defects in the Valley.

"...from the factories known as maquiladoras operating along Texas' border with Mexico. Heavy pesticide use in this largely agricultural..."

Nov. 9, 2001 News Feature by Dan Oko

Border Wall Opposition Mounts

Immigration and environmental groups alligne4d against wall.

"...Department of Homeland Security plans to construct a 70-mile Texas-Mexico border wall, The Lone Star Sierra Club last week..."

Oct. 26, 2007 News Post by Daniel Mottola

Cross-Border Craziness

Temporary injunction blocks feds' plan to use 'no match' Social Security letters, Senate authorizes construction of large chunk of border wall, and more

"...authorizes construction of a large chunk of the proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall, which people on Capitol Hill apparently think..."

Oct. 19, 2007 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

ACLU Warns Border Counties: Abbott’s Setting You Up

County officials warned they'll be flouting Constitution and federal law if they follow governor's immigration edict

"...Abbott's declaration of a "public safety disaster" at the Texas-Mexico border, the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas sent..."

July 9, 2021 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Will Border Crisis Spur a Special Session?

Perry, Dewhurst, Straus instruct DPS to increase border presence

"...of Public Safety to increase its presence along the border with Mexico. The big questions now are, how does..."

June 27, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Opinion: The Impossible Choice for Parents and Caregivers at the Border

The inhumane treatment of adults and children migrants must stop

"...is a focus on children and families at the border. Without access to standard health care, nutritious food, or..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Column by Natalie Fellows

'Copland and Mexico'

Five-day concert series highlights this composer and orchestral music south of the border

"...of its 1937 premiere by the Orquesta Sinfónica de Mexico (with Chávez conducting), the piece had been performed by..."

March 21, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Down Mexico Way

South of the border, six stories high, at the Texas State History Museum's IMAX theatre

"...That's why I found Mexico -- opening Saturday, Aug. 31, at the Bob Bullock..."

Aug. 30, 2002 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

Film Review: The Wall of Mexico

Border tensions from a new perspective

"...in 2019 with their next project, The Wall of Mexico. The title alone is a clue to this narrative’s..."

March 9, 2019 SXSW Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Advocacy Groups: Stop Separating Families at Border

Groups file emergency request to reunite immigrant families

"...May 7 to separate parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border. Parents are prosecuted while children are sent to..."

June 8, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

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