News and research resources

TABLE OF SECTIONS
• missing from mexico pages
• academic, data & research
• advocacy
• gov & ngo (political)
• general missing persons sites
• news (arizona)
• news (global)
• news (mexico)
• news (narco)
• news (u.s.)
• news (u.s.: the los angeles times)
• news (u.s.: the new york times)
• reporters / journalists
• reports: news in depth
• books

MISSING FROM MEXICO PAGES

The MFM News page
A partial listing of articles, photos and videos about border issues, forensics and reporting.

The MFM full news database
A growing database of articles, radio pieces, video and official reports about border issues, forensics and reporting. Article submissions welcome.

NOTA BENE: Listings are not endorsements and Missing from Mexico is not responsible for the content of external sources.

ACADEMIC, DATA & RESEARCH
• American Academy of Forensic Sciences
• Arizona Border Trash
• Arizona OpenGIS Initiative for Deceased Migrants
• CIA World Factbook: Mexico
• Forensic Science International
• Journal of Forensic Sciences and the January 2008 Border Symposium Issue
• Migration Policy Institute
• Morrison Institute Latino Public Policy Center
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
• Pew Hispanic
• University of North Texas: UNT Center for Human Identification’s Forensic Services Unit (untfsu)
• University of San Diego: Trans-Border News Blog
• Servicio Meteorológico Predicción y Prevención de Mortalidad
• United States Census Bureau
• The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’s The Canada Institute: Beyond the Border Observer

ADVOCACY

• American Immigration Lawyers Association
• Humanitarian Border Solutions
• No More Deaths / No Más Muertes: Facebook page
• Tucson Samaritans / Los Samaritanos
• San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium

GENERAL MISSING PERSONS SITES

• The Doe Network: International Center for Unidentified & Missing Persons

• ColdCases Group

• Let’s Bring Them Home: National Missing Adults Program (also on Facebook and on Twitter as @lbth)

• Missing people – help and support – a good information site from the UK on how to start a missing persons search.

• Missing Person Link and the maps

• Outpost for Hope

• Peace4 the Missing: Voice Platform and Support Network for Families of Missing and Victims of Crime

• University of North Texas: UNT Center for Human Identification’s Forensic Services Unit (untfsu)

• U.S. Department of Justice: Office of Justice Programs – this site includes a family survival guide with short and long term advice (aimed at child disappearances but good information for all families) and a list of national resources.

• Web Sleuths

GOV & NGO (POLITICAL)

• Arturo Sarukhan: Former Mexican Ambassador to the U.S.
• Consulado de Carrera de México en Tucson
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Border 2012 – A Binational Success Story
• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
• U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (also Local News Releases & CBP Twitter Contacts by Location)
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security
• U.S. Department of State
• United States Census Bureau

NEWS (ARIZONA)

• ABC15
• Ahwatukee Foothills News
• Arizona Capitol Times
• Arizona Daily Star: (also ‘Losing Ground: Tucson’s kids pay poverty’s high price’
• Arizona Republic (also Border/Immigration reporters, Immigration & the Border and News Special: Sheriff Joe – an in-depth look at ‘America’s toughest sheriff’)
• AZ Daily Sun
• Cochise TV
• Cronkite News Online
• East Valley Tribune
• Green Valley News
• Heat City: Hard news in the public interest from metro Phoenix
• Kingman Daily Miner
• KPHO (CBS5)
• KPHO: Help find Arizona’s missing children
• KTAR
• newsarizona: a twitter list
• Nogales International
• North County Times
• Payson Roundup
• Phoenix New Times
• Rim County Gazette
• Sierra Vista Herald
• The Navajo Post
• Today’s News-Herald: havasunews.com
• Tucson Sentinel
• Tucson Weekly
• White Mountain Independent
• Yuma Sun

NEWS (GLOBAL)

• Al Jazeera: Topic: Americas
• The Associated Press: @AP and Nerve Center staff: A list of NY-based staff who manage AP’s flagship social media accounts on Twitter and Facebook.
• BBC News: Latin America
• BBC News: Mexico Direct
• BBC News: US & Canada
• Global Post and Global Post: Mexico
• Latin American Herald Tribune

NEWS (MEXICO)

• Azteca
• Border Line
• Cronica
• Diario del Sur
• El Imparcial
• Noticias de Nogales
• El Sol de Mexico: Migración
• La Jornada
• MexicoPerspective (@mexperspective)
• Milenio
• Numero Uno Online
• #ReynosaFollow
• El Sol de Tijuana
• Somos Frontera: coverage of daily events in Ciudad Juarez, El Paso and Las Cruces
• Sonora Ahora
• South Notes
• Univision Noticias
• La Voz de la Frontera
• xeny genial
• Zeta Tijuana

NEWS (NARCO)

• Borderland Beat
• Ciudad Juraez
• El Blog del Narco
• Narco Mexico
• Narco News Bulletin
• Narcosphere

NEWS (U.S.)

• ABC Univision
• Al Jazeera America: Topic: border
• Eastern Group Publications: Eastside Sun / Northeast Sun / Mexican American Sun / Bell Gardens Sun / City Terrace Comet / Commerce Comet / Montebello Comet / Monterey Park Comet / ELA Brookyln Belvedere Comet / Wyvernwood Chronicle / Vernon Sun
• The Economist
• El Diario de El Paso
• El Latino San Diego
• El Paso Times
• Fox News Latino (@foxnewslatino)
• Fronteras Desk (@FronterasDesk): also Broken Border: Immigration Reform in the Southwest, Topic: SB 1070 and Topic: Operation Fast & Furious
• Huffington Post: Arizona Immigration Law
• getty images: border death
• Huffington Post: Latino Voices
• Mexodus: A Borderzine Project
• National Public Radio (NPR)
• North County Times
• ProPublica: Post Mortem – Death Investigation in America
• Somos Frontera: coverage of daily events in Ciudad Juarez, El Paso and Las Cruces
• Texas Observer: Law enforcement
• VOXXI : an independent voice for Hispanic America
• The Washington Post

NEWS (U.S.: THE LOS ANGELES TIMES)

• LAT: ATF’s Fast and Furious scandal
• LAT: Border Patrol
• LAT: Cartels
• LAT: Ciudad Juraez
• LAT: Drug trafficking
• LAT: Drug trafficking Mexico
• LAT: Drug violence
• LAT: Guns
• LAT: Illegal immigrants
• LAT: Latin America
• LAT: Mexico
• LAT: Mexico Under Siege – The drug war at our doorstep
• LAT: Missing persons
• LAT: Murders Mexico
• LAT: Smuggling
• LAT: Traffickers
• LAT: Without a country

NEWS (U.S.: THE NEW YORK TIMES)

• @nytimes National Journalists: A public Twitter list by NYT National News
• NYT: Arizona
• NYT: Arizona Immigration Law (SB 1070)
• NYT: California
• NYT: Deportation
• NYT: Illegal Immigrants
• NYT: Immigration and Emigration
• NYT: Immigration Detention (U.S.)
• NYT: In-Custody Deaths
• NYT: Joe Arpaio
• NYT: Mexico
• NYT: New Mexico
• NYT: Texas
• NYT: The Opinion Pages – Immigration
• NYT: U.S. – Mexico Border Fence
• NYT: U.S. Border Patrol
• NYT: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

REPORTERS / JOURNALISTS

• Mariana Alvarado: Arizona Daily Star
• Arizona News
• Cesar Barrón: Noticias de Nogales & xeny genial
• John Burnett: NPR
• Russell Contreras: The Associated Press
• Melissa del Bosque: Texas Observer
• Ken Ellingwood: The Los Angeles Times
• Valeria Fernández: Two Americans: a film by Daniel De Vivo and Valeria Fernández and Facebook page for Two Americans
• David Gaddis Smith (@mexperspective)
• Uriel J. Garcia (ujohnnyg): The Associated Press
• Daniel Gonzalez (@azdangonzalez): Arizona Republic
• Terry Greene Sterling (@TGSterling): Illegal: life and death in Arizona’s immigration war zone and Facebook page for Illegal)
• Jonathan Hollingsworth: Left Behind
• Victor Hugo Michel
• Jude Joffe-Block (@judejoffeblock): Fronteras Desk
• Marc Lacey: The New York Times
• Michel Marizco: Fronteras Desk
• Richard Marosi: The Los Angeles Times
• Brady McCombs (@BradyMcCombs): Arizona Daily Star
• Jennifer Medina: The New York Times
• K. Mennem: San Diego Reader, at Hell on Earth: Uncut reports from the Americas and at Uncut Reports
• Matt Nager Photography: Migrant Death and Identification
• Julia Preston (@JuliaPrestonNYT): The New York Times
• Bob Ortega: Arizona Republic
• Roberto Reveles: San Tan Valley
• Ildefonso Ortiz (@IldefonsoOrtiz): Texas Monitor
• Margaret Regan: The Death of Josseline: Immigration stories from the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands and Tucson Weekly
• John Rosman: Fronteras Desk
• Hernán Rozemberg (@scribehernan)
• Fernanda Santos (@fernandaNYT & The World As I See It): The New York Times
• Samantha Sais: photographer for The New York Times
• Erin Siegal (@erinsiegal): Finding Fernanda: Two Mothers, One Child, and a Cross-Border Search for Truth, @FindingFernanda, Finding Fernanda a daily news blog examining issues related to adoption corruption, human rights and Fronteras Desk
• Edward Sifuentes: North County Times
• Tim Steller: Arizona Daily Star
• Perla Trevizo (@Perla_Trevizo): Arizona Daily Star
• Tracy Wilkinson: The Los Angeles Times
• Shannon Young: South Notes

REPORTS: NEWS IN DEPTH

• A Line in the Sand
• ASU News21: Latino America 2010
• Death in the Desert 2004 – 2010
• Divided Families
• Family Ties
• MapOneQuestion
• Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel: Backfire – A Journal Sentinel investigation uncovered mistakes and failures in an undercover sting in Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
• Missing & Missed (also available in pdf)
• Northbound
• Trapped in violence
• Undocumented Abuse
• Unidentified Dead Common on the Border (also available in pdf)

BOOKS

• Bone Woman by Clea Koff: an exposure to the intersection of forensic anthropology and human rights work through a pioneer member of the forensic teams that worked on sites around the world for the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Tribunal.

• Crossing with the Virgin: stories from the migrant trail by Kathryn Ferguson, Norma A. Price, Ted Parks: a collection of border stories, anecdotes and personal narratives by Tucson Samaritans.

• The Death of Josseline: Immigration stories from the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands by Margaret Regan: a case study of the death of 14-year-old Josseline who was crossing with her younger brother to join their parents and was found by a No More Deaths volunteer.

• The Devil’s Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea: a deeply researched case study about the one of the first incidents (2001) where a large group of people died crossing the Arizona desert in the Yuma Sector.

• Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario: the story of a Guatemalan boy’s attempt to reach his mother in the US by hopping trains through Mexico, written by a reporter for the LA Times.

• Finding Fernanda: Two Mothers, One Child, and a Cross-Border Search for Truth by Erin Siegal: An in-depth investigation of $30,000 U.S. dollars, four Guatemalan orphans, one nonprofit evangelical Christian adoption agency, an accused family-run child-trafficking ring, one infant cut from her unconscious mother’s womb, two missing sisters, and a nine-member Tennessee family who believed wholeheartedly in Christian love and faith– until the dark side of international adoption shattered their trust. (also @FindingFernanda and Finding Fernanda: a daily news blog examining issues related to adoption corruption, human rights, & more)

• The Human Bone Manual by Tim D. White & Peiter A. Folkens: a great graphic primer for trying to build some bone knowledge with a ton of photos and information.

• Illegal: life and death in Arizona’s immigration war zone by Terry Greene Sterling: a nuanced look at politics and immigration in Phoenix including personal stories. (and Facebook page for Illegal)

• Left Behind: Life and Death Along the US Border photographs by Jonathan Hollingsworth, forward by Dr. Gregory L. Hess.

• Witnesses from the Grave: the stories bones tell by Christopher Joyce & Eric Stover: the story of forensic anthropologist Clyde Snow and his career including his work on mass graves in south America and his contribution to identifying escaped Nazi doctor Mengele as well as a really great background on the field of forensicsincluding how height / weight metrics were developed.

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