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.
-
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.
-
Immigrant advocates say the policy, known as Migrant Protection Protocols, is not protecting migrants. It is difficult for lawyers to reach clients and puts migrants in danger. -
Annunciation House, the main shelter for migrants in El Paso, is opening a new building to house families after they're released by ICE.
-
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.
-
In response to the deaths of two Guatemalan children in U.S. custody, the Department of Homeland Security has ordered more stringent medical screenings of minors detained at the border.
-
Two children recently died in Border Patrol custody. In response, volunteers created pop-up clinics and the Department of Homeland Security ordered medical checks on kids in custody. -
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen visits the southern border to check on medical care for migrant children. NPR's Don Gonyea talks to Mónica Ortiz Uribe, who's been covering the story for NPR.
-
As more Central Americans arrive at the border, immigration agencies are already beyond their limits. Nonprofits — like Annunciation House, a shelter organization in El Paso, Texas — is helping out.
-
U.S. Customs & Border Protection says medical personnel will immediately examine the hundreds of migrant children under 10 years old in its custody, following the death of a second migrant child.
-
An 8-year-old boy from Guatemala has died in government custody, U.S. Customs and Border Protection says. He is the second child reported to have died while in U.S. custody within a month.
