Fronteras: A Changing America

There’s a fascinating debate going on in the U.S. media about whether or not Mexico is truly emerging as the next economic powerhouse. Interesting, that this debate seems to coincide with a concerted public relations campaign initiated by the new regime in Mexico City to change the conversation about Mexico.

A 100 page report released by the Republican National Committee on Monday unveiled proposals to open the base to individuals who may have felt alienated in the past, including immigrants, minorities, younger voters and gays.

The report, titled the Growth and Opportunity Project, outlines stark recommendations to rebrand and reorganize the Republican Party on a federal level.

Diversifying The Lifeguard Applicant Pool

Phoenix Aquatics staff member Kelly Martinez took on the delicate task of explaining why they are targeting inner-city schools like this one for recruitment, and the scenario they are trying to correct.

WASHINGTON — In front of the subcommittee of Homeland Security Appropriations on Thursday, ICE Director John Morton said 2,228 immigrants were transferred from detention to supervised release in recent weeks due to budget cuts.

The number of monarch butterflies completing their famous migration to central Mexico is dramatically shrinking. Every spring, hundreds of millions of butterflies east of the Rocky Mountains fly up to 3,000 miles to winter in central Mexico

The Vatican has its white smoke. Los Angeles has bells that rang out at The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels downtown. Archbishop Jose Gomez usually doesn't attend midday Mass, but yesterday he had a very important announcement to make.

About 70-percent of LA's Catholics are Latino, and at yesterday's service Gomez got his biggest applause when he spoke in Spanish. LA's 4.2 million Catholics will now be led by an archbishop from Mexico and a pope from Argentina.

SAN DIEGO — A 4-year-old United States citizen detained with her grandfather for 20 hours with only a cookie to eat and nowhere to nap.

Three women apprehended near the Texas-Mexico border and held in a freezing cell for days on end with no beds or blankets.

Pope Francis is the first ever from the Americas, an austere Jesuit intellectual who modernized Argentina's conservative Catholic church.

Known until Wednesday as Jorge Bergoglio, the 76-year-old is known as a humble man who denied himself the luxuries that previous Buenos Aires cardinals enjoyed. He came close to becoming pope last time, reportedly gaining the second-highest vote total in several rounds of voting before he bowed out of the running in the conclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI.

PHOENIX — The annual Border Security Expo in Phoenix opened Tuesday. It’s an event meant to showcase the latest technologies for sale to border agencies. But one huge element was missing: federal buyers.

George P. Bush will run for Texas land commissioner in 2014.

For months, there has been speculation surrounding what office Bush — the Latino nephew of one U.S. President and grandson of another — would go after.

The Zócalo newspaper is the latest victim in a recent upswing of violence against Mexican journalists.

Zócalo, a publication out of the Coahuila capitol, Saltillo, wrote a front-page editorial on its website Monday explaining it would no longer publish news concerning drug cartels.

In a statement by the editorial council of the paper, it said the decision aimed to protect its employees and their families.

PHOENIX — It may still be winter in most of the country, but here in Phoenix it's almost swimming weather.

And that means a new crop of teenagers are training to be lifeguards. It’s a job that’s typically been filled by high school swim team athletes, many of whom are white. But now the city is now trying to diversify that classic summer job.

In late January, staff from the Phoenix Aquatics program visited Alhambra High School, which is almost 95 percent minority.

The Fourth Amendment protects against unreasonable search and seizure. But there is an exception for the border agents trying to detect illegal material before it enters the country.

A bipartisan group of senators laying the foundation on immigration reform, known as the Gang of Eight, have agreed on a pathway for the 11 million undocumented immigrants to attain citizenship.