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December 6, 2017 Newscast

DACA recipients' future, meet a Muslim day and a DACA boxer career in jeopardy


August 16, 2017 Newscast

We highlight stories from the Borderlands team.


August 9, 2017 Newscast

We highlight stories from the Borderlands team


Cronkite Borderlands Initiative: Mexico border special

Cronkite Borderlands Initiative: Mexico border special


Borderlands Theater has been putting on a show for three decades in Tucson

TUCSON – Nestled among the sprawling buildings around the Tucson Convention Center is the Sosa-Carrillo-Frémont House, home to Borderlands Theater and the Arizona Historical Society offices.


December 26, 2016: Borderlands Special

Cronkite News special: Latino issues, transborder populations and culture


December 5, 2016: Borderlands Special

Cronkite News special: Latino issues, transborder populations and culture


What I learned reporting on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border

Editor's Note: Recently, a group of Cronkite News reporters travelled along the U.S.-Mexico border to work on stories about the results of a Cronkite News-Univision News-Dallas Morning News border poll. Mauricio Casillas, a recent graduate of the Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University, was one of the reporters who contributed to our coverage. Here, he reflects on his experience as a Borderlands reporter.


About Cronkite News borderlands reporting

Learn more about the goals of the Cronkite News-Univision News-Dallas Morning News border poll and the team behind it.


A trip through southeastern Arizona is a chance to see the complexities of border life

U.S.-Mexico Border — Over the weekend, Borderlands team digital reporters Miguel Otárola and Molly Bilker, along with photographer Courtney Pedroza, took a reporting trip that brought them through some of the historic landmark towns of southeastern Arizona. The trip began in Bisbee, took a quick jaunt to Douglas and its sister city in Mexico, Agua Prieta, and eventually ended in Nogales.


What we learned: Reflections on El Paso-Juárez from the Borderlands team

Editor’s note: Recently, a group of Cronkite reporters for the Borderlands program spent a week covering Pope Francis' visit to the border. In the end, the story became more than just about the pope. The reporters were among the few, if not the only student reporters, who covered the story from El Paso and Juárez, one of the biggest border communities in the world, from both sides. Here's an essay with their reflections:


Celebration of Pope Francis’ visit resonates on both sides of the border

CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico -- In the slanting afternoon shadows between this city and its sister across the border, Pope Francis ascended a ramp built overlooking the levee of the Rio Grande and blessed the U.S. and its people, including migrants and refugees.