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The latest border news from The Texas Tribune.

  • The Prescription: On the Edge

    By Nathan Bernier, KUT News

    Down on the border, there are more uninsured people, fewer primary care physicians, and higher rates of certain chronic illnesses. As part of his continuing exploration of the effort to rewrite health care policy, KUT's Nathan Bernier talked to a doctor in Eagle Pass. Full Story 

  • Fighting for Security

    By Brandi Grissom

    Immigration advocates say the feds are deporting thousands of illegal aliens who are minor offenders and some who've committed no crimes at all. But federal officials and local law enforcement argue that they're simply making Texas streets safer. Full Story 

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    Credit: Bob Daemmerich

  • A Detention Center Mea Culpa

    By Julián Aguilar

    The U.S. government is imposing greater restrictions than necessary on most aliens held in custody for immigration violations, according to a charge made by ... the U.S. government. Full Story 

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    Credit: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security

  • TribWeek: In Case You Missed It

    By Ross Ramsey

    Roll your own political videos ... interactive travel maps of your federal and state legislators ... scary movies, to keep the kids out of the border's scary drug wars ... puttting dropouts back in class ... rates squeezing families out of home health care ... how many lobby and trade associations do teachers in Texas need? ... enjoying the silence before an expected two-month siege of political advertising ... the dean of Texas political writers gets shut out of the gubernatorial debates ... and we have an interactive database of the state's best and worst public schools. The best of our best for a short news week, from December 19 to 26, 2009. Full Story 

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  • TribBlog: Border Mayor Escapes Mexico Shootout

    By Brandi Grissom

    Eagle Pass Mayor Chad Foster might have to change his tune about his idyllic border home after this week. Foster was having lunch Tuesday with Mexican officials across the border in Piedras Negras when a gunmen started spraying the place with bullets. Full Story 

    Eagle Pass Mayor Chad Foster
    Credit: http://www.eaglepasstx.us/council/home.htm

  • TribBlog: Sun Bowl to Oklahoman: Drop Dead

    By Brandi Grissom

    The El Paso Brut Sun Bowl has sold out more quickly than ever in its 76-year history, officials said today. The sellout comes less than a week after the Oklahoma City daily The Oklahoman, ran a story about how the raging violence in Juarez was keeping many Sooner fans from buying tickets Full Story 

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  • Narco Terror

    By Brandi Grissom

    U.S. Border Patrol agents launched Operation Detour to shock kids away from Mexican drug cartel recruiters. Now they're expanding the program across the entire southwest border. Full Story 

  • Shock Therapy

    By Brandi Grissom

    Border Patrol agents are combatting cartel recruitment with a graphic film designed to scare high school students straight. But some experts say the program misses the mark. Full Story 

    Students at McCamey High School watch a graphic U.S. Border Patrol presentation designed to discourage them from getting involved with narcotrafficking.
    Credit: Bob Daemmrich

  • TribBlog: Forbes Says College Grads Making Bank in the 915

    By Brandi Grissom

    El Paso is in the national news today, and — for the first time in recent memory — it has nothing to do with its proximity to drug war-torn Juarez. Forbes actually has some good news about the border city: Incomes for college graduates in El Paso are rising faster than any other major metropolitan area of the nation. Full Story 

    Downtown El Paso
    Credit: http://jdlong.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/nighttime-downtown-el-paso.jpg

  • Outbound Brains

    By Julián Aguilar

    Border communities struggle to keep younger, educated residents when larger cities dangle economic and quality-of-life opportunities. They're afflicted with the reputation of being black holes of talent — where escape is necessary in order to prosper. Full Story 

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  • Slideshow: Border Bus

    By Brandi Grissom

    On both sides of the border, there are calls to end the U.S. Border Patrol's Alien Transfer and Exit Program. But Border Patrol officials say their plan to break the connection between smugglers and immigrants is working. Full Story 

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  • Road to Nowhere

    By Brandi Grissom

    The U.S. Border Patrol says its illegal immigration repatriation program is working to break the crossing cycle in Arizona, but officials in Texas and Mexico worry the program creates more problems than it solves. Full Story 

    Photo of undocumented immigrants getting off the bus in Presidio so they can be deported to Ojinaga, Mexico
    Credit: Bob Daemmrich

  • Upwardly Mobile

    By Julián Aguilar

    The number of Mexican-born professionals living in the United States has more than doubled since 1995. They're not the undocumented workers you see in evening-news mug shots or aerial photographs of a littered and barren desert. They're college graduates — some with multiple degrees — who join their blue-collar counterparts in their journeys north. Full Story 

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    Credit: Bob Daemmrich