May 2018 – Teens take risks, pay price for smuggling
A small, but consistent trend in Nogales, Ariz. shows border teenagers resorting to drug smuggling in hopes of a quick trip to money and popularity.
(Written for the Arizona Sonora News Service and published in the Nogales International.)
March 2018 – Children from U.S. adapt to new lives in Mexico
With no previous connection to Mexico or a Spanish-speaking ability, Jesus Alejandro de la Torre’s kids are building a new life in Nogales, Sonora after U.S. authorities deported their father three years ago.
(Written for the Arizona Sonora News Service and published in the Nogales International.)
Fall 2016 – U.S. security infrastructure looks dramatically different along southern and northern border
For the Bordering 110 project, 10 student journalists compared two border communities along the U.S. northern and southern borders, including the different security infrastructures along the two towns
Genesis Lara | Journalist 