DIVIDED FAMILIES: AN IN-DEPTH REPORTING PROJECT
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A young mother whose son is already beginning to forget his father. Two men who have searched for their missing brother for years. Border Patrol agents who toil miles from their families. These are the some of […]
LEFT BEHIND, A TEENAGER TRIES TO HOLD ON TO LIFE IN AMERICA
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By AMANDA SOARES
Cronkite News Service
RIMROCK, Ariz. _ Humberto was getting ready to go to school one morning when he heard the police bang on the front door.
“It’s […]
AMERICAN AT HEART: FAMILY STRUGGLES TO START OVER IN MEXICO
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By AJA B. VIAFORA and AMANDA SOARES
Cronkite News Service
IXTAPAN DE LA SAL, Mexico _ Hector and Marcos are about as American as two young men can be.
They […]
DESOLATION, ISOLATION MAKE BORDER PATROL JOBS MORE DIFFICULT
By RYAN KOST
Cronkite News Service
PAPAGO FARMS, Ariz. _ Just over the western horizon, 2 1/2 hours outside any major city, dust flies into the air.
Border Patrol agents are tracking ghosts. Until the agents see the migrants crossing here in person, they’re nothing but a spiral of dust or […]
DIVIDED FAMILY SERVES CHURCH SOUTH OF BORDER
By BRIAN INDRELUNAS
Cronkite News Service
SAN LUIS RIO COLORADO, Mexico _ On a Sunday morning at Templo Mikedash, it’s hard to miss the Zavala family.
Efrain, 22, sings and plays his guitar as part of the Methodist church’s band. His brother Damian, 21, leads the congregation in prayers. Another brother, Saul, […]
DEATH IN THE DESERT FORCES FAMILY TO START AGAIN IN MEXICO
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By TEANA WAGNER
Cronkite News Service
DURANGO, Mexico _ Hector Valdez walks daughters Sandra and Nancy to school, holding their backpacks until he kisses them goodbye and watches them march away wearing their uniforms and smiles.
“The hardest time of the day […]
FAMILY SEARCHES FOR BROTHER WHO VANISHED CROSSING BORDER
By AJA B. VIAFORA
Cronkite News Service
MESA, Ariz. _ After spending three weeks trying to cross the border from Mexico into Arizona, 31-year-old Porfirio Montufar had finally made it.
It was a trip that Porfirio, a Mexican national, had made several times before. For the past 13 years, Porfirio had […]
EXPERTS: IMMIGRATION OVERHAUL COULD REMOVE EDGE FOR FAMILIES
By BRIAN INDRELUNAS
Cronkite News Service
For years, immigration law in the United States has given an edge to families.
Those who can show that they have family members in this country make up the biggest percentage of those who are given permanent-resident status.
But if immigration laws ever get a serious […]
SOME IMMIGRANTS LEAVING ARIZONA IN FACE OF EMPLOYER SANCTIONS LAW
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By LEAH DURAN
Cronkite News Service
AVONDALE, Ariz. _ In the corner of a living room in a small house that he rents in this Phoenix suburb, Juan Carlos has piled six black garbage bags stuffed with clothes and housewares along […]
WORTH BILLIONS, REMITTANCES TO MEXICO ARE BIG BUSINESS
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was reported from Tempe, Ariz., and Veracruz and Jalisco, Mexico.
By KRISTI EATON
Cronkite News Service
As he has done most every week for eight years, Pedro Cordova Martinez steps into El Paisano Mercado, a convenience store near his home in Tempe, Ariz., and makes his way […]
DAVID’S STORY ONE OF MANY INVOLVING MEXICAN TEENS CROSSING BORDER
By KRISTI EATON
Cronkite News Service
ZAMAJAPA, Mexico _ When David Tetzoyolt Juarez was caught trying to cross illegally into Arizona from Mexico, he had no money, no ability to speak the language and no idea that his planned destination _ Mississippi _ was actually a state more […]
PHOTO STORY: DETAINED CHILDREN
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Every month, thousands of undocumented teenagers are caught trying to cross into the United States. The teens travel by plane, bus and sometimes foot, thousands of miles _ often on their own _ to try to reach the United States.
After they are […]
FAMILY HOPING FOR MIRACLE AS TUCSON MAN FACES DEPORTATION
By ANGELA LE
Cronkite News Service
TUCSON, Ariz. _ Victor Napoles, a 21-year-old Mexican national who grew up in Tucson, is facing deportation after losing a case that began with him barking at another man’s dog.
That man turned out to be a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
Now Napoles, the oldest […]
WITH DEPORTATION LOOMING, FAMILY FACES BEING SEPARATED BY BORDER
By ANGELA LE
Cronkite News Service
TUCSON, Ariz. _ Juan Villa, a lifelong Tucson resident, is on the brink of being deported.
If he loses his legal fight to remain in this country, his wife and U.S.-born children face what amounts to an impossible choice: stay in the U.S., where […]
‘ONION KING’ BATTLES U.S. OFFICIALS OVER RESIDENCY APPLICATION
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By JORDAN LaPIER
Cronkite News Service
SAN LUIS RIO COLORADO, Mexico _ He’s called the “Onion King.”
Jesús Bustamante owns the company that farms 4,000 acres of dates, pomegranates, radishes and green onions here, just across the border […]
WITH FATHER DEPORTED, DIVIDED FAMILY STRUGGLES TO STAY CONNECTED
By DEANNA DENT
Cronkite News Service
TUXTLAN, Mexico _ Van Bui Rios holds her sleeping son in her lap as the small airplane carries them across the U.S.-Mexico border.
Bui is headed to Guadalajara to see her husband, David Rios, who was deported from the United States to Mexico in the fall […]
TECHNOLOGY ALLOWS SEPARATED FAMILIES TO REUNITE THROUGH VIDEO
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By LEAH DURAN
Cronkite News Service
LOS ANGELES _ Feliciano left his home in Guatemala late one night while his son and daughter were sleeping.
He kissed them both, held his wife one […]
THE VIEW FROM GUATEMALA CITY: ‘DADDY, HURRY BACK HOME SOON’
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By ADRIAN BARRERA
Cronkite News Service
GUATEMALA CITY _ Pricila kept trying to explain to her two young children where their […]
VIDEO CONFERENCING BUSINESS LINKS PEOPLE IN LATIN AMERICA TO U.S.
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By ADRIAN BARRERA
Cronkite News Service
GUATEMALA CITY _ Gabriel Biguria started Amigo Latino video conferencing company five years ago with one office in Guatemala and another in San Francisco.
“It’s basically a business […]
WITH MANY GONE NORTH, SOME MEXICO TOWNS SHORT ON YOUNG MEN
By ADRIAN BARRERA
Cronkite News Service
ZACATECAS, Mexico _ Not long ago, Francisco Javier Balderas Medina, 18, was getting ready to try to cross illegally into the United States along with most of the rest of his friends from the small town of El Cargadero.
But he knew […]
MANY HEADED TO U.S. WIND UP AT MAQUILADORA PLANTS ON BORDER
By CODIE SANCHEZ
Cronkite News Service
AGUA PRIETA, Mexico _ Neftali Fuentes left his home, family and everything he knew in Chiapas last fall to seek out the promise of work and opportunity along the U.S.-Mexico border.
After an exhausting three-day bus ride, 18-year-old Neftali arrived in […]
ELDERLY OFTEN LEFT BEHIND WHEN RELATIVES CROSS THE BORDER
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