La Frontera: The Border Series

In 2005, the Human Rights Show produced a special eight-part investigative series on human rights issues along the TexasMexico border. Human Rights Show staff interviewed border patrol agents, illegal immigrants, and experts on immigration on both sides of the border to gain a fuller understanding of the ongoing human rights violations that occur along the border.

Guests on the series include

• Humberto Palomares, Professor at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte Alma Maquitico, Assistant Director of the Border Network for Human Rights
• “Carmen”, illegal immigrant
• “Marcos”, illegal immigrant
• Dr. Manuel Ceballos, Professor at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte
• Benito Juarez, Houston Mayor’s Assistant to Immigrant and Refugee Affairs
• Dr. Martha Smithey, Associate Professor at the University of Texas, El Paso
• Dr. Eduardo Alarcun, Professor at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte
• Bill Froelich, Refugee Program Director for Amnesty International USA
• Father Leopoldo, Casa del Migrante
• Sister Liliana, Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Juarez
• Diana Washington-Valdez, Journalist with the El Paso Times
• Congresswoman Hilda Solis, U. S. House of Representatives, Secretary of Labor in the Obama Administration
• Carlos Marentes, Director of the Center for Agricultural Border Workers
• Dr. Walter Ewing, Senior Research Associate for the Immigration Policy Center
• Dr. Blanca Vasquez, Professor at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte
• Raimundo Ramos, Secretary of Human Rights for the Mexico-U.S. Network.

To order a copy of this 4-CD series, please contact The Human Rights Show at newsomemary@gmail.com .

Or to download a the files directly, in either high quality, or standard ( radio) quality.