Monica Ortiz Uribe
Fronteras Senior Field Correspondent Mónica Ortiz Uribe (KRWG, Las Cruces) is a native of El Paso, Texas, where she worked as a freelance reporter prior to joining the Fronteras team. She also anchors segments on KRWG-TV's Fronteras program.
Her work has aired on NPR, Public Radio International and Radio Bilingue. Many of her stories have examined the effects of drug-related violence across the border in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Previously, she worked as a reporter for the Waco Tribune Herald in Waco, Texas. She graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso with a degree in history.
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Authorities are treating a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, this weekend as domestic terrorism. Twenty people were killed in a shooting spree in the city, which is a hub for Hispanic migrants.
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Residents along the Southern border with Mexico are not convinced that a longer and strengthened barrier will have much of an impact on their own safety and on border security. -
Officials appear to have resumed coordinating with local shelters after days of dropping off hundreds of mostly Central American migrants without any plan. -
A migrant shelter in El Paso, Texas, says ICE officers delivered several hundred migrants to a bus station without warning. Normally shelter workers are given a heads up. ICE says it was an oversight.
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Two Central American fathers in El Paso were just released from ICE custody and reunited with their toddlers. Attorneys say the reunification process is ongoing, but haphazard and poorly coordinated. -
When it comes to criminal justice, Mexico is better known for bribery than best practices. But police are receiving better training, and reforms now allow for open trials and presumption of innocence. -
Mexico said farewell to Pope Francis from the border city of Juárez. His journey across the country followed the well worn path taken by millions of immigrants to reach the doorstep of the U.S.
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After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, life changed along U.S.-Mexico border towns as border security became a top priority. There's been a thaw, and runners again ran a 10K between El Paso and Juarez. -
In Texas, an El Paso-based gang has spread across the U.S., and has also sent some members to Mexico for training with the Zetas. They became a transnational gang due to the drug trafficking industry.
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Mexico and the United States are supposed to share water according to a 70-year-old treaty that aims to protect each nation's needs. But prolonged drought is testing that relationship. Mexico is behind by 38 percent on its deliveries.
