Palabra NAHJ | March 3, 2026
Cecilia Ballí
EDINBURG - Sitting inside the taquería El Portón here in Edinburg, Texas, tuba-tinged banda music wafting through the speakers, Bobby Pulido could easily pass for one of the many South Texas Latinos who drifted toward Donald Trump in the past two presidential races. He’s a rancher who spends time at the shooting range. Clad in a plaid shirt, cowboy boots, and a khaki baseball cap that reads “Texican,” Pulido talks easily about faith, family, and personal responsibility. But, he insists, the Democratic Party is still his party.read more
El Paso Times | February 24, 2026
Steve Fisher
"El Mencho," the powerful drug lord ... who was fatally wounded when special forces stormed a hideout in Jalisco state, took extraordinary precautions, according to sources familiar with his operations who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes rarely allowed a phone near him because he feared a GPS signal might reveal his location.read more
LA Times | February 24, 2026
Steve Fisher
MEXICO CITY — “El Mencho,” the powerful drug lord the Mexican army killed in a daring raid, had created what security experts say was one of the most advanced security operations devised to protect a cartel boss. His system relied on high-powered weaponry, nearly 400 gunmen, bomb-delivering drones and, sometimes, land mines.read more
Palabra NAHJ | February 17, 2026
Roberto Camacho
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – On a typically cool spring morning in San Diego, muralist Daniel Angeles took a phone call that chilled his soul: His first piece of public art in the city’s Latino-centric Barrio Logan, a large mural called “Birth of the Hummingbird,” was being erased. He clicked on a live video and was horrified that his masterwork was being painted over – the vibrant colors of his mural gradually covered by mundane, muddy browns.read more
KVIA | February 3, 2026
Sam Karas and Rob D’Amico
CANDELARIA - In the early morning hours of August 19, 2025, six patrol cars pulled into the unincorporated town of Candelaria, about 50 miles northwest of Presidio on the Texas-Mexico border. With lights blazing, they surrounded an RV by the church. A small posse of officers—representing the Border Patrol, the U.S. Army and the Presidio County Sheriff’s Office—approached the trailer.read more
KVIA | January 23, 2026
Angela Kocherga and Dianne Solis
EL PASO - Once a flashpoint in the heated debate over high immigration flows, this city is now a hub for detentions and deportations – with more mega-facilities in the works as the Trump administration tries to ramp up massive deportations.read more
El Pais | January 23, 2026
Angela Kocherga and Dianne Solís
EL PASO, Texas - El Paso, once a flashpoint in the heated debate over high levels of migration, is now a hub for detentions and deportations, with more large-scale facilities planned as the Donald Trump administration seeks to ramp up mass deportations.read more
Los Angeles Times | January 18, 2026
Steve Fisher and Kate Linthicum
MEXICO CITY — Adrián Ramírez hadn’t been to his hometown in western Mexico for more than two decades. When he finally returned there early last year after being deported from the United States, he found the place transformed.read more
My RGV News | December 31, 2025
Alyda Muela
EL PASO - For many Mexicans, few dishes evoke memories of home more than a steaming bowl of menudo. The hearty red-chile tripe stew, often served with lime, oregano and freshly chopped onion, provides a deep sense of place. How you eat it, with tortillas, or bolillos, is a grand debate, especially when a hangover cries for relief. read more
El Pais | December 12, 2025
Angela Kocherga and Alfredo Corchado
Ciudad Juárez - The number of international tourists traveling to the United States has declined, with one exception, Mexico. After a dip at the beginning of the year, visitors from Mexico are back, and their numbers growing.read more
Big Bend Sentinel | November 21, 2025
Anita Snow, Angela Kocherga, Dianne Solís, Alyda Muela
Catholic parishioners rushed to deliver boxes of food to migrants too terrified to leave their homes in the Californian city of Coachella, after federal immigration agents raided Hispanic neighborhoods during the summer.read more
Palabra NAHJ | November 12, 2025
Jason Buch
CIUDAD JUÁREZ - As the healthcare workers approach the small collection of makeshift shelters along the train tracks that cut through the northern Mexico industrial hub of this border city, the people who gather in this place to use drugs prepare for their arrival.read more
Los Angeles Times | November 6, 2025
Steve Fisher
LA CIÉNEGA, Mexico — Barreling down the highway at 100 mph, a convoy of state police vehicles blew through speed bumps as it entered a small town in the Sonoran desert. Blasting over them was hell, but Alejandro Sánchez knew that slowing down was too risky: Here, locals call them “death bumps,” because reducing your speed gives cartel snipers a better chance of taking you out.read more
George W. Bush Institute | September 23, 2025
William McKenzie
DALLAS, Texas - ...The Puente News Collaborative, one of 258 local, non-profit news sites launched since 2019, (works) to meet its top goal: Provide reporting about the U.S/Mexico border and Mexico itself to media outlets. And not just about immigration and trade, as important as those subjects are to our country, but also about the everyday life of one of America’s most pivotal but underreported regions.read more
San Antonio Express-News | September 17, 2025
Angela Kocherga, Alfredo Corchado
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — From the outside, it looks like the kind of unassuming watering hole you’d find in many places along the U.S.-Mexico border. But a few steps inside the Kentucky Club reveal an iconic bar that’s served drinks to generations of visitors — and is (maybe) the source of what’s become the margarita.read more
Palabra. | September 15, 2025
Angela Kocherga, Alfredo Corchado
CIUDAD JUÁREZ – From the outside, it looks like the kind of unassuming watering hole you’d find in many places along the U.S.-Mexico border. But a few steps inside the Kentucky Club reveal an iconic bar that’s served drinks to generations of visitors – and is (maybe) the source of what’s become the margarita.read more
El Pais | September 14, 2025
Angela Kocherga and Alfredo Corchado
Ciudad Juarez - As tensions between the U.S. and Mexico percolate, the Kentucky Club is the only legendary bar still standing along the border, and a tempting reminder that even the thorniest of issues can be ironed out over a margarita.read more
Palabra NAHJ | August 19, 2025
Dudley Althaus, Alfredo Corchado, Dianne Solis
MEXICO CITY — With late morning traffic surging, Yudelis Ferreira slips out of the migrant shelter with her three young children, heading for another day hawking popsicles in the Mexican capital’s hard heart. This has been Ferreira’s life for months now, her family’s plans for a future in the United States scuttled with the arrival of the Trump administration.read more
LA Times | August 15, 2025
Steve Fisher
FT. HUACHUCA, Ariz. — Inside a windowless and dark shipping container turned into a high-tech surveillance command center, two analysts peered at their own set of six screens that showed data coming in from an MQ-9 Predator B drone.read more
My RGV News | August 4, 2025
Dudley Althaus, Keith Dannemiller
MEXICO CITY — With late morning traffic surging, Yudelis Ferreira slips out of the migrant shelter with her three young children, heading for another day hawking popsicles in the Mexican capital’s hard heart. This has been Ferreira’s life for months now, her family’s plans for a future in the United States scuttled with the arrival of the Trump administration.read more
El Pais | August 3, 2025
Dudley Althaus, Keith Dannemiller
MEXICO CITY — With late morning traffic surging, Yudelis Ferreira slips out of the migrant shelter with her three young children, heading for another day hawking popsicles in the Mexican capital’s hard heart. This has been Ferreira’s life for months now, her family’s plans for a future in the United States scuttled with the arrival of the Trump administration.read more
El Paso Times | July 29, 2025
Eduardo García, Alfredo Corchado and Alyda Muela
EL PASO, Texas - A growing wave of uncertainty is freezing investment plans in Mexico, the United States’ second-largest trading partner, rattling domestic and foreign business leaders alike.read more
El Pais | July 14, 2025
ADELINA ROMERO, REBECCA RAGHUNATH
EL PASO - Six months into President Donald Trump’s second term, sweeping changes to federal immigration policy have escalated deportations, cut millions of dollars in federal funding to nonprofits providing legal aid for immigrants, and revoked protections for sensitive spaces, including churches.read more
Best of the West | June 27, 2025
Best of the West
Alfredo Corchado, Eduardo Garcia and Dudley Althaus grab third place with 'Mexico is about to elect its first woman president, but many doubt that will ease cartels’ grip.'read more
San Antonio Express-News | June 20, 2025
Alfredo Corchado
EAGLE PASS — President Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs, attacks on social programs and crackdown on illegal immigration have unsettled some residents along the Texas-Mexico border, a region that overwhelmingly supported his re-election. read more
Public Health Watch | June 13, 2025
Daisy Yuhas
RIO GRANDE VALLEY, TEXAS — In this roughly 100-mile stretch of citrus groves and palm-fringed neighborhoods along the Mexican border, a preventable disease continues to take an outsize toll on Latina women.read more
El Paso Inc. | June 2, 2025
Eduardo Garcia, Sandra Sadek
EL PASO - As the head of a mid-sized auto parts company, Óscar Cázares had long considered how to respond if President Donald Trump slapped tariffs on Mexican-made components. One option was clear: move some production to the United States, fulfilling Trump’s promise to revive American manufacturing and create new jobs. But after weighing the costs, Cázares, 65, dismissed the idea.read more
El Paso Times | May 16, 2025
Sandra Sadek & Gibran Caroline Boyce
SANTA TERESA, N.M. — Bandanas veiled ranchers’ mouths and noses, shielding them from heavy dust clouds kicked up by the Mexican herds of cattle crossing the United States-Mexico border. read more
KVIA | May 8, 2025
Gibran Caroline Boyce & Sandra Sadek
SANTA TERESA, N.M. — Bandanas veiled ranchers’ mouths and noses, shielding them from heavy dust clouds kicked up by the Mexican herds of cattle crossing the United States-Mexico border. read more
My RGV | May 2, 2025
Alfredo Corchado
EAGLE PASS — President Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs, attacks on social programs and crackdown on illegal immigration have unsettled some residents along the Texas-Mexico border, a region that overwhelmingly supported his reelection. read more
KVIA | May 2, 2025
Alfredo Corchado
EAGLE PASS – President Trump's threatened tariffs, attacks on social programs and draconian immigration policies have unsettled many along the Texas-Mexico border, a region that jolted national voters in decidedly supporting his election. read more
My RGV | April 4, 2025
Alfredo Corchado, Eduardo Garcia and Angela Kocherga
MISSION — Even as President Trump was vowing hellfire for the trade that has forged the U.S.-Mexico border into a business beehive, crews proceeded laying cement for yet another road to channel foreign cargo crossing her to deep into the American heartland. read more
KVIA | April 3, 2025
Alfredo Corchado, Eduardo Garcia & Angela Kocherga
ANZALDUAS INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE (OR MISSION,) TEXAS – Even as President Trump was vowing hellfire for the trade that has forged the U.S.-Mexico border into a business beehive, crews proceeded laying cement for yet another road to channel foreign cargo crossing her to deep into the American heartland. read more
palabra | April 2, 2025
Jason Buch
PHARR, Texas – In the middle of the 20th century, the South Texas border region became the epicenter of influential, international musical styles. read more
El Paso Times | March 14, 2025
Eduardo Garcia, Alfredo Corchado & Angela Kocherga
MEXICO CITY – President Claudia Sheinbaum celebrated big at El Zócalo, the country’s largest public square in downtown Mexico City, after securing a second delay — at least for another month — on punitive U.S. tariffs targeting all Mexican exports. read more
San Antonio Express-News | March 10, 2025
Eduardo Garcia, Alfredo Corchado & Angela Kocherga
As her country's economy struggles, Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum says she is willing to work to address the concerns raised by the Trump administration. read more
palabra | February 20, 2025
Alfredo Corchado, Angela Kocherga, Gaige Davila and Aline Corpus Simerman
CIUDAD JUÁREZ — Mega shelters for deportees set up by the Mexican government along the border sit mostly empty, one month after President Donald Trump threatened “mass deportations” on Day 1. read more
KVIA | February 20, 2025
Alfredo Corchado
CIUDAD JUÁREZ - Mega shelters for deportees set up by the Mexican government along the border sit mostly empty, one month after President Donald Trump threatened “mass deportations” on Day 1. read more
El País | February 19, 2025
Alfredo Corchado, Angela Kocherga, Gaige Davila and Aline Corpus
Mega shelters for deportees set up by the Mexican government along the border sit mostly empty, one month after President Donald Trump threatened “mass deportations” on day 1 of his administration. read more
palabra | February 1, 2025
Alfredo Corchado, Eduardo Garcia, Angela Kocherga and Pablo De La Rosa
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico – Not two weeks into President Trump’s four-year term, nerves are jangling along the U.S.-Mexico border, deep inside both countries and beyond. read more
palabra | December 13, 2024
Eduardo García & Alfredo Corchado
MEXICO CITY – If enacted, President-elect Trump’s threatened tariffs on Mexico and Canada will bite deep and well in the Texan border area and beyond. read more
palabra | November 4, 2024
Alfredo Corchado
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin – Stark political ads blare incessantly on the airwaves of this crucial battleground state. They portray the southern border of the United States as out-of-control, chaotic terrain overrun by “waves” of immigrants without documents — a crisis in need of heavy-handed solutions. read more
Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting | October 30, 2024
Alfredo Corchado
Iconic Texas Sheriff Arvin West was a leading voice against migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. He pushed strict measures favored by former President Donald Trump. But West says his perspective is aligned with what he sees as the reality of the border, his weariness of divisive politics, and the wishes of neighbors who’ve voted him into office. read more
palabra | October 26, 2024
Alfredo Corchado
MILWAUKEE – Fresh beginnings sprout in the most unusual of places. read more
KVIA | October 1, 2024
Eduardo García, Alfredo Corchado
MEXICO CITY – Claudia Sheinbaum was sworn in as Mexico’s first female president Tuesday in a ceremony where underscored the history moment, but promised to hew closely to her predecessor’s program.read more
San Antonio Express-News | September 30, 2024
Eduardo Garcia, Sandra Dibble & Alfredo Corchado
EL PASO — Víctor González fears for his safety every time he drives to meet potential clients outside his home base, the city of Aguascalientes in central Mexico. read more
El Paso Times | September 29, 2024
Eduardo Garcia, Sandra Dibble & Alfredo Corchado
Because of gangland violence, Víctor González fears for his safety every time he drives to meet potential clients outside his central Mexico city of Aguascalientes. read more
San Antonio Express-News | September 29, 2024
Eduardo García & Alfredo Corchado
MEXICO CITY — When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Claudia Sheinbaum, then mayor of Mexico City, turned the capital’s public security center, known as the C-5, into a hub for handling emergency calls and coordinating medical assistance. read more
KVIA | September 27, 2024
Eduardo García & Alfredo Corchado
MEXICO CITY – When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, then-Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum quickly re-purposed the sprawling Mexican capital’s public security center, the C-5, into a hub for handling emergency calls and coordinating medical assistance. read more
Nieman Lab | September 16, 2024
Hanaa' Tameez
In February, seasoned immigration and border reporter Alfredo Corchado took on a new challenge: covering his homeread more
San Antonio Express-News | July 8, 2024
Alfredo Corchado, Monica Almeida & Paúl Mena Mena
QUITO, Ecuador — For years, the small, violence-plagued nation of Ecuador has served as a corridor for migrants from Asia, the Middle East and Africa looking to start their overland trek to the U.S. border. read more
palabra | July 6, 2024
Alfredo Corchado & Monica Almeida
QUITO, Ecuador — The tiny and increasingly violence plagued country of Ecuador has for years served as a main conduit for migrants from Asia, the Middle East and Africa to begin the overland trek to the U.S. border. read more
KTEP | July 3, 2024
Alfredo Corchado, Monica Almeida & Paúl Mena Mena
QUITO, Ecuador -- The tiny and increasingly violence plagued country of Ecuador has for years served as a main conduit for migrants from Asia, the Middle East and Africa to begin the overland trek to the U.S. border. read more
El Paso Inc. | July 2, 2024
Alfredo Corchado, Monica Almeida & Paúl Mena Mena
QUITO, Ecuador – The tiny and increasingly violence plagued country of Ecuador has for years served as a main conduit for migrants from Asia, the Middle East and Africa to begin the overland trek to the U.S. border. read more
KVIA | July 2, 2024
Alfredo Corchado
QUITO, Ecuador -- The tiny and increasingly violence plagued country of Ecuador has for years served as a main conduit for migrants from Asia, the Middle East and Africa to begin the overland trek to the U.S. border. read more
USA TODAY | June 20, 2024
Steve Fisher & Alfredo Corchado
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico − The tunnel is dark and narrow. Toxic gases rise from the dank water. Insects scurry along the sides, rattlesnakes wait, coiled. Rodents lurk along the water’s edge. read more
NJ.com | June 7, 2024
Eduardo García & Alfredo Corchado
MEXICO CITY — Outperforming even the rosiest predictions, leftist Claudia Sheinbaum has swept into Mexico’s presidency in a landslide that likely will enable her to accelerate the nationalist-populist program of her patron, who hands over power in four months. read more
KVIA | June 7, 2024
Eduardo García, Alfredo Corchado and Dudley Althaus
SANDERSON – President Biden’s executive order to crack down on asylum seekers at the southern border not only put a damper on Mexico’s post-election celebration — the first woman president was just voted into office - it left residents along this stretch of the Texas border unimpressed. read more
KALW | June 7, 2024
Malihe Razazan
On this edition of Your Call's Media Roundtable, we discuss the presidential election in Mexico. read more
El Paso Times | June 5, 2024
Alfredo Corchado & Eduardo Garcia
MEXICO CITY — Overcoming even the rosiest predictions, leftist Claudia Sheinbaum has swept into Mexico’s presidency in a landslide that likely will enable her to accelerate the nationalist-populist program of her patron, who hands over power in four months. read more
San Antonio Express-News | June 4, 2024
Alfredo Corchado & Eduardo Garcia
MEXICO CITY — Texas and other U.S. border states have much at stake in how Claudia Sheinbaum, newly elected as Mexico’s first woman president in a landslide, uses her mandate. read more
KTEP | June 2, 2024
Angela Kocherga, Alfredo Corchado & Wendy Fry
CIUDAD JUAREZ – The tortuous path toward a more equal and democratic Mexico was first carved decades ago on the gritty streets of communities bordering the United States. read more
LMT Online | June 1, 2024
Alfredo Corchado & Eduardo Garcia
MEXICO CITY — Mexican voters appear poised to make history Sunday by electing a Jewish woman as president. But by all indications, the groundbreaking moment will leave the nation's overall politics largely unchanged. read more
Houston Chronicle | June 1, 2024
Alfredo Corchado & Eduardo Garcia
MEXICO CITY — Mexican voters appear poised to make history Sunday by electing a Jewish woman as president. But by all indications, the groundbreaking moment will leave the nation's overall politics largely unchanged. read more
USA TODAY | June 1, 2024
Lauren Villagran & Omar Ornelas
The election will likely have big ramifications for the U.S. and others. 'So many things that happen in Mexico don’t stay in Mexico; they influence the United States,' one expert said. read more
El Paso Matters | May 31, 2024
Veronica Martinez, Raul Flores
CIUDAD JUÁREZ – Hilda Sotelo was born in Mexico and became a naturalized citizen of the United States, giving her dual nationality. Sotelo said she has crossed the border from El Paso to Ciudad Juárez to cast her vote in Mexico every election year since 2012. This year, her dual citizenship status will allow her to vote in presidential elections in both countries – Sunday, June 2, in Mexico’s election and Tuesday, Nov. 5 in the United States.read more
Texas Observer | May 31, 2024
Alfredo Corchado & Eduardo Garcia
Crossing a historic threshold, Mexicans appear poised to elect a woman as president this Sunday but to otherwise leave politics largely unchanged. read more
El Paso Matters | May 7, 2024
Blanca Carmona
Ciudad Juárez – From prison, Rodolfo Collazo de la Torre, a National Migration Institute agent accused in the death of 40 migrants in a Ciudad Juárez detention center fire on March 27, 2023, breaks his silence.read more
El Paso Matters | April 15, 2024
Blanca Carmona
CIUDAD JUAREZ – One year after his arrest, a National Migration Institute agent identified as Eduardo A.M., who is charged in the death of 40 migrants in the March 2023 fire in Juárez, has been released from prison and placed on parole while he awaits trial.read more
Borderzine | December 30, 2023
Lauren Villagran
EL PASO - Mount Cristo Rey rises in the desert like two hands in prayer, the U.S. and Mexico sides, over a graveyard without tombs. This year, migrants died in this harsh landscape – in the Rio Grande, in the desert, in neighborhoods and on city streets – in numbers never seen before at this border crossing known as the Paso del Norte. Yet no stones mark the places where they died, only numeric coordinates inked on police reports.read more
