Best Of The Border (7/14 - 7/18)
A Honduran Family In Phoenix Explains The Violence At Home
Tens of thousands of families and unaccompanied children have left Honduras for the United States in recent months.
Veronica’s hometown of San Pedro Sula is sending the greatest number of child migrants to the United States.
“President Barack Obama and his cabinet should be able to do something so that these children don’t have to return to Honduras,” Veronica said in Spanish. “Deporting them would be like sending them back into a fire.”
Earlier this week, the U.S. deported the first airplane full of only women and children migrants back to San Pedro Sula.
Close Calls: In Fight For Survival, Predator Falls Victim To Her Prey
Red tailed hawks can be choosy about their meals. This spring Sonora, who lives at the Arizona-Sonora Living Desert Museum outside Tucson, decided she liked the taste of rattlesnakes.
"One day she went after an adult, a really, really big one," trainer Wally Hestermann said. "We saw her go down on it and by the time I found her, the head was already eaten and I saw two puncture marks on her foot. She was hobbling around like it was really bothering her."
Sonora was in trouble.
USDA Changes Border Policy, Agents Return To Mexican Inspection Pens
The United States Department of Agriculture has rescinded a 2012 ban on inspectors working at what was until two years ago the largest single point of entry for Mexican cattle into the United States.
The lifting of the ban signals a small but significant shift in border policy for the agency.
In returning to this part of Mexico, the agency is hoping to invigorate a cattle trade that has been hurt in both countries.
Preservation Committee To Consider Historic Designation For Arizona State Fairgrounds
A Works Progress Administration building at the Arizona state fairgrounds may be getting a chance to avoid demolition.
On Wednesday, the Phoenix Historic Preservation Committee voted in favor of a motion to consider a historic preservation overlay on the fairgrounds area.
Officials said without the building the space could generate about $80,000 to $100,000 per fair. They added the agency cannot afford to spend the nearly $1 million needed to bring the building up to code.
