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Mexican cartels are building luxury fleets by stealing U.S. rental cars

Editor’s note: This story was co-published with Puente News Collaborative a bilingual nonprofit newsroom, convener and funder dedicated to high-quality, fact-based news and information from the U.S.-Mexico border. MEXICO CITY – Mexican cartels are stealing cars and trucks from U.S. rental agencies at an alarming rate, spiriting thousands of vehicles across the border each year

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Mexico’s Deportation Capital

Editor’s note: This story was co-published with Puente News Collaborative a bilingual nonprofit newsroom, convener and funder dedicated to high-quality, fact-based news and information from the U.S.-Mexico border. By Georgina PeasePuente News Collaborative contributor TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS – Just days after United States immigration agents detained Daniel Ramirez last month near his home in Brownsville, the

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Too Young To Be Sick Like This

Editor’s Note: Reporting for this story was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. This story is a collaboration between the Puente News Collaborative, a bilingual, nonprofit newsroom and funder dedicated to high-quality, fact-based news and information from the U.S.-Mexico border, and Public Health Watch, a nonprofit investigative newsroom based in Texas. By Mariana

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A Wall In The Wilderness

Editor’s note: This story was co-published with Puente News Collaborative in partnership with palabra, by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Puente News Collaborative is a bilingual nonprofit newsroom, convener and funder dedicated to high-quality, fact-based news and information from the U.S.-Mexico border By Roberto Camacho TECATE, Calif. — On a warm summer day, dynamite

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Our Last Bracero: My father’s hat

Editorial note: This article is published by Puente News Collaborative, a bilingual nonprofit newsroom that covers stories from Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico border. It was the white cowboy hat worn by Lorenzo Salgado Araugo, the Houston man shot and killed by federal immigration agents, that first rattled me. As the evening’s Spanish-language newscast blared on about yet another

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Faith vs. Border Fence

Editor’s Note: This article is co-published published by Puente News Collaborative, a bilingual nonprofit newsroom that covers stories from Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico border and KTEP public radio . By Angela Kocherga  SUNLAND PARK, N.M. — The gleaming white sculpture of Jesus Christ at the top of windswept Mount Cristo Rey towers over this tiny border

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A Pause for a Cup

Editorial note: This article is published by Puente News Collaborative, a bilingual nonprofit newsroom that covers stories from Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico border. Words and photos by Alfredo Corchado MEXICO CITY – In the borderlands of Mexico and the United States, there are clear signs of a political, economic, and social relationship slipping to an

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Parkinson’s Disease Is Consistently Linked to Pesticide Exposure. Farmworkers — and Nearby Communities — Are at Risk in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. 

By Daisy Yuhas This story is part of a series by Public Health Watch and MyRGV.com. Puente News Collaborative is a partner in this collaboration. MCALLEN, Texas — When neuroscientist Kelsey Baker hears the low buzz of planes over her home in the Rio Grande Valley, she grabs her dog and hurries indoors. The drone

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The U.S. is investigating two more Mexican governors for connections to cartels

This article was co-published with Puente News Collaborative, a bilingual nonprofit newsroom that covers stories from Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico border, and the Los Angeles Times. MEXICO CITY – The U.S. is investigating two prominent Mexican governors, multiple sources said, as the Trump administration expands its campaign against high-level Mexican officials suspected of ties to

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Cartel war takes surprising turn as CIA’s deepening involvement in Mexico surfaces

Editor’s note: This story was co-published with Puente News Collaborative in partnership with the Los Angeles Times. Puente News Collaborative is a bilingual nonprofit newsroom and funder dedicated to high-quality, fact-based news and information from the U.S.-Mexico border. MEXICO CITY – Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum reiterated Wednesday that her government was never informed that CIA

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Desert Songs: How Sonic Ranch cut a new trail in the competitive music business

Editor’s note: This story was co-published by Puente News Collaborative, a bilingual nonprofit newsroom and funder dedicated to high-quality, fact-based news and information from the U.S.-Mexico border and Minero Magazine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXRXAOeaGHI TORNILLO — Sonic Ranch is a working farm on 1,700 acres hugging the Rio Grande and Texas’ border with Mexico, some 40 miles east

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Candelaria raids target longtime residents

By Sam Karas and Rob D’Amico This article was co-published with Puente News Collaborative, a bilingual nonprofit newsroom dedicated to high-quality coverage from the U.S.-Mexico border, and The Big Bend Sentinel based in Marfa.  CANDELARIA – In the early morning hours of August 19, 2025, six patrol cars pulled into the unincorporated town of Candelaria,

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Deportees returning to Mexico find they must learn how to live in a land often controlled by cartels

By Steve Fisher, Kate Linthicum This article was co-published with Puente News Collaborative, a bilingual nonprofit newsroom dedicated to high-quality coverage from the U.S.-Mexico border, the Los Angeles Times, with data compiled by Quinto Elemento Lab, an investigative nonprofit based in Mexico. Adrián Ramírez hadn’t been to his hometown in western Mexico for more than

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Holiday Cheer: Mexican Tourists Revive U.S. Travel Amid Declining International Numbers

BY ANGELA KOCHERGA and ALFREDO CORCHADOPuente News Collaborative Editor’s note: This story was co-published with Puente News Collaborative in partnership with KTEP News. Puente News Collaborative is a bilingual nonprofit newsroom, convener and funder dedicated to high-quality, fact-based news and information from the U.S.-Mexico border. CIUDAD JUAREZ – The number of international tourists traveling to

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Día de Muertos festivities spread across the border as a homage to the departed and respect for Mexican culture

A community altar constructed by textile artist Genevieve Guadalupe stands in the art gallery of the nonprofit Tohono Chul botanical gardens in Tucson, Arizona, on Oct. 11, 2025. The altar holds cards where visitors write the names of departed loved ones and leave messages. Photo by Anita Snow/Puente News Collaborative A Tucson couple keeps borderlands

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How religions filled with pro-immigrant teachings motivate the faithful

“This isn’t about being Republican or Democratic. This is justice.” BY ANITA SNOW, ANGELA KOCHERGA, ALYDA MUELA AND DIANNE SOLIS Catholic parishioners rushed to deliver food boxes to migrants too terrified to leave their homes in the California city of Coachella after federal immigration agents swept through Hispanic neighborhoods during the summer. Just south of

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Predator drones shift from border patrol to protest surveillance

Story edited by Steve Padilla, Column One Editor, Los Angeles Times This article was co-published with Los Angeles Times and Puente News Collaborative, a bilingual nonprofit newsroom, convener, and funder dedicated to high-quality, fact-based news and information from the U.S.-Mexico border. By Steve Fisher FT. HUACHUCA, Ariz – When MQ-9 Predator drones flew over anti-ICE

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Inside the windowless shipping container where analysts hunt migrants by drone

By Steve Fisher Puente News Collaborative Story edited by Steve Padilla, Column One Editor, Los Angeles Times This article was co-published with Los Angeles Times and Puente News Collaborative, a bilingual nonprofit newsroom, convener, and funder dedicated to high-quality, fact-based news and information from the U.S.-Mexico border. FT HUACHUCA, Ariz. – Inside a windowless and

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Migrants marooned in Mexico City as passage north ebbs and many consider a journey reversal

Migrant shelters fill with people of broken dreams By DUDLEY ALTHAUS and KEITH DANNEMILLER Edited by Dianne Solis and Alfredo Puente News Collaborative Editor’s note: This story was co-published with Puente News Collaborative, a bilingual nonprofit newsroom, convener, and funder dedicated to high-quality, fact-based news and information from the U.S.-Mexico border. MEXICO CITY — With

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Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors Face Growing Hurdles from the Trump Administration crackdown

“Let’s All Agree That Children Should Be Off Limits.” By Nicol Leon and Gibran Caroline Boyce Edited by Dianne Solis and Alfredo Corchado Immigrant children who crossed the border without a parent or guardian are increasingly in the crosshairs of the Trump administration. That has meant children facing immigration judges without lawyers, and stricter screening

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For borderland cattle ranchers, a trade war with Mexico adds to the list of troubles

A worker at the Unión Ganadera Regional de Chihuahua on the U.S.-Mexico border guides newly arrived cattle into the proper pen. Photo by Sandra Sadek for Puente News Collaborative Could sirloin steak and burger prices rise even higher? Editor’s note: This story was produced for Puente News Collaborative in partnership with the Craig Newmark Graduate

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