Fronteras
Texas PR
"Fronteras" is a Texas Public Radio program exploring the changing culture and demographics of the American Southwest. From Texas to New Mexico and California, "Fronteras" provides insight into life along the U.S.- Mexico border. Our stories examine unique regional issues affecting lifestyle, politics, economics and the environment.
Location:
San Antonio, TX
Genres:
World News
Networks:
Texas PR
Description:
"Fronteras" is a Texas Public Radio program exploring the changing culture and demographics of the American Southwest. From Texas to New Mexico and California, "Fronteras" provides insight into life along the U.S.- Mexico border. Our stories examine unique regional issues affecting lifestyle, politics, economics and the environment.
Language:
English
Website:
http://tpr.org/
Episodes
Fronteras: ‘Surviving the ICE Age’ — How deportations and detentions impact U.S. citizen children of immigrants
9/12/2025
Sociologist Joanna Dreby interviewed 99 young adults in New York to examine the impacts of enforcement-first approaches to immigration policy.
Duration:00:27:17
Fronteras: Regenerating the land and indigenous connections through the Texas Tribal Buffalo Project
9/5/2025
The Texas Tribal Buffalo Project and The Conservation Fund hope to reconnect with indigeneity and reintroduce the buffalo back to South Texas.
Duration:00:31:18
Fronteras: ‘It’s unwritten history’— The years-long fight to offer American Indian/Native Studies in Texas public schools
8/29/2025
School districts across the state now have the option to offer American Indian/Native Studies as an elective course.
Duration:00:34:57
Fronteras: ‘They simply ceased to exist’ — New report aims to identify those killed during state-sanctioned killings
8/22/2025
The recent report, A Matter of Justice: The Uninvestigated Homicides of La Matanza, aims to pursue justice for the victims of la matanza.
Duration:00:25:26
Fronteras: ‘It comes from the soul’ — Remembering the life, legacy of conjunto pioneer Flaco Jiménez
8/15/2025
San Antonians remember Flaco Jiménez, who died July 31, at the age of 86.
Duration:00:22:47
$1,000 and a free flight home — Examining the Trump administration's self-deportation campaign
8/8/2025
The article "Can the Trump Administration's 'Self-Deportation' Campaign Succeed?" by the non-partisan think tank, Migration Policy Institute addresses the unanswered questions surrounding the administration's self-deportation push.
Duration:00:24:33
Border Vigil collaborates to ID immigrants in Eagle Pass, pay tribute to lives lost
8/1/2025
Border Vigil in Eagle Pass has been holding monthly vigils to remember the immigrants who have drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande. The group’s members have recently been receiving training in recovering human remains at the border.
Duration:00:23:50
Fronteras: Film ‘Spring of the Vanishing’ sheds lights on dozens of people who disappeared at the hands of Mexican marines
7/25/2025
The documentary tells of the dozens of men and boys who were missing and murdered by Mexican marines during a period of four months in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo.
Duration:00:30:22
Researchers give voice to immigrant families, break down the costs of being undocumented
7/18/2025
Researchers aim to humanize immigrants by sharing their stories.
Duration:00:26:04
Remembering San Antonio’s 1921 flood in the wake of devastation across the Texas Hill Country
7/11/2025
A devastating flood that occurred over a century ago in San Antonio's historic West Side closely mirrors the July 4 tragedy of the Hill Country.
Duration:00:21:49
‘Fighting the good fight’ — Artists confront injustice, inequity through ACLU artist-in-residency program
7/3/2025
Artist Vincent Valdez and writer KB Brookins discuss how they're promoting advocacy through the arts as part of the program's 2025-26 term.
Duration:00:24:23
Border Soundscapes Project captures the aural history and identity of the borderland
6/27/2025
A professor in El Paso who lives in the Mexican city of Juárez aimed to capture and document the everyday sounds that are a part of border experience.
Duration:00:24:49
Fronteras: The road to untold history — Latinos in Heritage Conservation preserves Latinx sites and stories
6/20/2025
The group took a long road trip last month through the Southwestern United States with a goal to visit the places that communities value as a connection to their history and culture—and share the untold stories.
Duration:00:21:50
Fronteras: Death of Jonathan Joss highlights systemic disparities in Native and LGBTQ communities
6/13/2025
Joss, a member of the LGBTQ community, was also of Comanche and White Mountain Apache descent. His death highlights a crisis of underreported mental health disparities.
Duration:00:32:04
Fronteras: Former child detainee shares his harrowing immigrant journey in 'Detained'
6/6/2025
D. Esperanza details his 10-month journey from Honduras to the U.S. through reconstructed and translated journal entries.
Duration:00:31:48
Fronteras: ‘It is not just a Native issue’ — Activists raise awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People
5/30/2025
American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions embarked on a campaign in May to highlight the disproportionate effect of violence against Native women.
Duration:00:26:34
Fronteras: ‘We are Americans’ — Traveling exhibit highlights role of Latinos in WWII
5/23/2025
Images of Valor: U.S. Latinos and Latinas of World War II examines the themes of citizenship and civil rights that emerged from Latino veterans’ experiences.
Duration:00:21:45
‘They are part of the story’ — Texas Tejano marks 25 years of highlighting undertold state history
5/16/2025
Rudi Rodriguez, the president and founder of the San Antonio-based organization, discusses his fascination with Texas history and his own Tejano heritage.
Duration:00:21:45
Fronteras: ‘Language is part of our identities’ — Breaking down language barriers through community partnerships
5/9/2025
Students in A&M San Antonio's Language and Literacy in Latinx Communities class aim to better understand the socio-economic backgrounds of the city’s Latino populations and their experiences with language.
Duration:00:29:55
Migration Policy Institute breaks down immigration actions during Trump’s first 100 days in office
5/2/2025
MPI Policy Analyst Kathleen Bush-Joseph discusses the firehose of executive actions on immigrations.
Duration:00:24:18