Mónica Ortiz Uribe
Mónica Ortiz Uribe was a senior field correspondent for the Fronteras Desk from 2010 to 2016.
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On Saturday, hundreds gathered in the streets of El Paso to protest President Trump's immigration policies, and his plans for more physical barriers around their city's edge.
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A federal judge in El Paso is scheduled to decide on Friday whether to continue and expand upon a construction hold on a natural gas pipeline near the U.S./Mexico border.
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While Latino voters helped defeat Republican Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona, conservative Latino voters in Florida helped Donald Trump win the White House.
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Latino voter turnout has hit records highs across the country led by states like Arizona, Nevada and Colorado.
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A coalition of attorneys and human rights advocates is calling for federal immigration authorities in El Paso to show more respect for basic human rights and stop deporting immigrants who are eligible for humanitarian parole.
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Elephant Butte Dam rose from the desert of southern New Mexico a century ago— the solution to an international water feud between the U.S. and Mexico.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide whether a Mexican family can sue a U.S. Border Patrol agent for the 2010 shooting death of their teenage son at the border between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
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An unconventional form of theater that took its audience away from the stage and into neighborhoods stigmatized by drugs and violence became an unexpected hit during its nearly two month run in the Mexican border city of Juárez.
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Two immigrant neighborhoods along the U.S./Mexico border and a strip of post World War II architecture in Tucson are highlighted in a 2016 list of endangered historic places released Wednesday by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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Governor Susana Martinez of New Mexico is pushing to reinstate the death penalty after a series of high profile crimes this year.