Over the last five years, there has been a dramatic increase in immigrant deaths along the border. This has caused the Pima County Medical Examiner's Office to be overrun with more than 600 unidentified bodies.
To help with this problem, the University of Arizona is helping to create a database that will aid the examiners in identifying those who have died.
The Tucson sector of the U.S. Border Patrol has adopted ten new 'wild' additions into one of its units.
The ten mustangs will soon be working the border after being adopted from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's Wild Horse and Burro Program. This program gathers wild mustangs from the U.S. Mexico borderlands.
There are plenty of issues that surround the U.S. – Mexico border and many people have no problem expressing their opinions and perspectives.
The University of Arizona is located a little over an hour away from the U.S – Mexico border and students are very aware of all the issues that surround it.
In November of 2006, Arizona voters passed the controversial Proposition 300, which changed educational funding for some University of Arizona students.
Proposition 300 disallows in-state tuition rates for students who are not United States citizens or have migrated to the U.S. illegally. Under the law, those who fall under those two categories can not receive state aid for higher education.
Proposition 300 does not, however, block all types of funding for those students. Scholarships issued by private organizations are still available for students who are not U.S. citizens or are illegal immigrants.
Echeverria! Dame! And Sombrero! Are all dance moves that are taught by the University of Arizona Salsa Club, by instructors of Ritmoson Latino to add cultural diversity to the university.
"The club itself is meant to spread the love of salsa through out UA community and the community of Tucson at large," said beginning level instructor, Sara Tichenor.
The club is composed from members of the community and the university.
What started out as a school music class dedicated to mariachi music has now increased to a group of over 70 performers, all hoping to wow guests at Tucson's 27th International Mariachi Conference.
After growing up in a family mariachi group, Davis elementary music instructor, Jaime Valenzuela took over the general music class when his father retired.
Davis elementary, a dual immersion school, integrates mariachi into their language program. Of the over 75 percent of students who play a musical instrument at the school, 70 are involved in the mariachi program.
"We have a lot of Anglos and that's the big part of tying in the dual language program - mariachi is a big tool for that; it's our backbone for the school," said Valenzuela.
Arizona Cat’s Eye, a 30-minute news magazine and online publication, features the best video news stories produced by students at the University of Arizona School of Journalism.
Produced once per semester, the reporters take viewers to a myriad of places in Southern Arizona, from the U.S.-Mexico border for a look at the impact of the border fence on wildlife, to downtown Tucson for a lesson on the city’s colonial past, to the UA campus and an ensuing battle to become the next starting quarterback.
Over the last five years, there has been a dramatic increase in immigrant deaths along the border. This has caused the Pima County Medical Examiner's Office to be overrun with more than 600 unidentified bodies.
There are plenty of issues that surround the U.S. – Mexico border and many people have no problem expressing their opinions and perspectives.
In November of 2006, Arizona voters passed the controversial Proposition 300, which changed educational funding for some University of Arizona students.
Echeverria! Dame! And Sombrero! Are all dance moves that are taught by the University of Arizona Salsa Club, by instructors of Ritmoson Latino to add cultural diversity to the university.
What started out as a school music class dedicated to mariachi music has now increased to a group of over 70 performers, all hoping to wow guests at Tucson's 27th International Mariachi Conference.