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Cartas de la frontera

A twice-a-month essay by Carlos Sanchez about issues along the Texas border

  • Marianna Treviño Wright, executive director of the National Butterfly Center.

    Texas butterfly center targeted by far-right conspiracy theorists to reopen

    Misinformation about the center being a site for illegal immigration circulated after it opposed Trump’s border wall
  • SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN CAMPAIGNS FOR TEXAS CANDIDATES, San Antonio, Tx - 22 Feb 2022<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Robin Jerstad/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock (12818890ab) Texas Congressional Candidate, Democrat JESSICA CISNEROS is trying to unseat fellow Democrat HENRY CUELLAR in the Texas Primary. CISNEROS has been endorsed by ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ and ELIZABETH WARREN. SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN CAMPAIGNS FOR TEXAS CANDIDATES, San Antonio, Tx - 22 Feb 2022

    Can Texas become purple? That may depend on Hispanic voters

    Carlos Sanchez
    Whichever party wants to rule the state has to understand that the Latino voting bloc is not homogenous
  • Henry Cuellar, one of Texas’s most fascinating elected officials.

    Texas Democrat tied to Azerbaijan inquiry faces tough primary election contest

    An FBI raid could give Henry Cuellar’s progressive challenger a primary boost – but a Cuellar loss could open the door for Republicans
  • The border wall in La Joya, Texas: ‘What I didn’t realize was how quickly the negative effects of this isolated land would be felt.’

    Trump’s border wall and the slow decay of American soil

    The ‘big, beautiful wall’ has kept US citizens away from the no man’s land it created – and in effect ceded the territory to Mexico
  • ‘In a border town like El Paso, no one ever made an issue of a gringo using the nickname for the Spanish name Roberto.’

    Beto and the Spanish name-game in the Texas governor’s race

    Republican Greg Abbott is trying to appeal to Hispanic voters by claiming Beto O’Rourke is appropriating their culture
  • Stacks of shipping containers at a Port of Houston facility in La Porte, Texas. A route emanating from south Texas could attract Mexican investment when a backlog of goods favors new ideas.

    Could landlocked south Texas help a backlogged US supply chain?

    A Mexican highway that connects with Texas ports of entry might be an alternative to California water ports
  • US-POLITICS-CONGRESS-WEAPONS<br>Representative Veronica Escobar (R), D-TX, speaks alongside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (L), D-CA, during a press conference to demand a vote for the House-passed bipartisan Background Checks Act, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on September 9, 2019. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images

    Move over, Matthew and Beto: is Texas ready for a Latina governor?

    As Greg Abbott prepares to run for re-election, political buzz has McConaughey and O’Rourke as challengers. But how about Congresswoman Veronica Escobar to rally behind?
  • Texas Department of Public Safety survey the area where multiple people died after the van carrying migrants tipped over just south of the Brooks County community of Encino on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021, in Encino, Texas. The van crashed against a utility pole after it attempted to turn off of Highway 281 onto Business 281. Encino is about 2 miles (3.22 kilometers) south of the Falfurrias Border Patrol checkpoint. (Delcia Lopez/The Monitor via AP)

    The Texas checkpoint that forces migrants into dangerous terrain – and death

    New documentary Missing in Brooks County looks at Falfurrias, one of the busiest immigration checkpoints in the US and the growing number of deaths plaguing the nation’s border region
  • Sister Norma Pimentel escorts a young asylum seeker upon his entry into the US in Brownsville, Texas, in February.

    The nun helping migrants navigate a pandemic and shifting US policies

    Over the years Sister Norma Pimentel’s singular focus of ‘restoring dignity’ to people in need has evolved in Texas
  • Demetra Ranson, a healthcare worker, comforts a patient in the Covid-19 ward at United Memorial medical center in Houston on 4 December.

    Texas anti-vaxxers’ calls for personal freedom dismiss my nearly fatal bout with Covid

    Since my hospitalization, and as Hidalgo county sees a surge in cases, protests against the vaccine are triggering
  • General Francisco Pancho Villa (1877-1923) on horseback, during the Mexican Revolution. Possibly taken at the time of the Battle of Ojinga, Chihuahua, which took place in January 1914.. Image shot 1914. Exact date unknown.<br>2A0D1D0 General Francisco Pancho Villa (1877-1923) on horseback, during the Mexican Revolution. Possibly taken at the time of the Battle of Ojinga, Chihuahua, which took place in January 1914.. Image shot 1914. Exact date unknown.

    Pancho Villa, my grandmother and the border’s revolutionary history

    Stories of the Mexican revolutionary, preserved in family lore, are unlikely to feature in Texas’s whitewashed 1836 Project take on history
  • Ted Cruz with Texas state troopers on the Rio Grande near Anzalduas Park in March. Sometimes it’s best to view these border tours with a sense of levity.

    Texas borderlands too often a photo op for politicians pushing stereotypes

    Ubiquitous border tours fixate on immigration, missing the complex character and needs of the region
  • A selfie of Sister Norma with a bus full of migrants

    Welcome to the US southern border: same country, different planet

    Migrants are integral to border communities, and today’s ‘crisis’ would be dwarfed by the economic fallout if they were gone
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