Fronteras Desk

Economy

Shot Across The Bow: Mexico Considers Boycott Of U.S. Corn

Lorne Matalon

Legislation has been proposed in Mexico City to boycott U.S. corn in response to a number of economic threats against Mexico voiced by President Donald Trump.
KPBS Midday Edition

From The Dakota Access Pipeline To The Border Wall, Series Explores Disputes Over Sacred Indian Lands

Maureen Cavanaugh

Megan Burke

KJZZ Fronteras News Desk reporter Laurel Morales discusses how producing the "Earth + Bone" series changed the way she looks at what is sacred.
KPBS Midday Edition

DNA Helps, But It Doesn’t Lock In A Sexual Assault Conviction

Marisa Demarco / KUNM

New Mexico has the highest rate of untested sexual assault evidence kits per capita in the nation.
KPBS Midday Edition

Law Enforcement Works To Adjust In Light Of Ignored Evidence

Marisa Demarco / KUNM

We call the thousands of sexual assault evidence kits in New Mexico a backlog. But as the state Auditor’s Office pointed out in an audit last week, it’s not like there’s just a long line of envelopes at the labs waiting to be tested. Actually, the kits have been sitting around law enforcement departments all over the state for decades.
KPBS Midday Edition

Nurse On Untested Kits: It Absolutely Breaks My Heart

Marisa Demarco / KUNM

New Mexico has one of the worst sexual assault rates in the nation. And thousands of envelopes of DNA evidence that could help identify repeat sexual offenders are sitting untested. We're taking a look at what it takes for survivors to provide that evidence in the first place.
KPBS Evening Edition

Israeli Artist, Syrian Refugee Make Art Not War In San Diego

Tarryn Mento

A nonprofit Jewish foundation hosted a refugee artist-in-residence program with an Israeli sculptor to help a Syrian refugee heal through art.
Education

MiraCosta College Gets $6M To Offer Workforce Training At No Cost

Megan Burks

When a U.S. company brings an immigrant worker into the country on an H-1B visa, it pays the federal government a fee to help train American workers to one day fill the job. Now that money is flowing into San Diego County.
Environment

In Texas, A City Goes Green (For The Money)

Lorne Matalon

A conservative city in Central Texas is going 100 percent renewable in a state largely defined by oil and gas. And it had nothing to do with the environment.
KPBS Midday Edition

Documenting The Dead On The Arizona Border: Lonely Remains Matched To Lost Loved Ones

Michel Marizco

A nonprofit organization, the Colibrí Center for Human Rights, is working to match the DNA of hundreds of unidentified migrants who died crossing the Arizona-Mexico border with families living in the U.S.
KPBS Midday Edition

American Wives Of Deported Mexicans Say They're Excluded From SENTRI

Jean Guerrero

U.S. citizens living in Tijuana with their deported husbands say they are denied access to SENTRI, a trusted traveler program for expedited border crossings.