Border Justice Fellows, 2003-2004

Karen Michelle Brooks
Border Affairs Bureau Chief
Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Karen Brooks runs the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s border bureau, which she helped to establish in Laredo, Texas in 2001. Brooks studied journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia before starting her career at the Corpus Christi Caller-Times as a police reporter in January 1995. In her time at the Star-Telegram, Brooks has covered the state legislature in Austin, Texas, participated in Knight-Ridder team coverage of the presidential elections, and covered assignments in Mexico City and Honduras. Her professional awards include the Associated Press Managing Editors and Headliner Awards. She is fluent in Spanish, and her areas of professional interest include the international drug war and state politics.

Fellowship Project:

• Migrant plan vital to Central America
• Mexico's drug cartels waging bloody turf war
• Border commuters take warnings in stride
• 3 state police officers questioned in deaths of men found in yard
• Mexican attorney general appoints special prosecutor in Juarez case
• Battles intensify among Mexico's drug cartels
• Mexican attorney general appoints special prosecutor in Juarez case
• Arizona border initiative raises concerns along Texas border
• Vigilante faces assault trial in South Texas
• Congress pushing for U.S. help in Juarez investigation
• Program to save immigrants' lives at Arizona border off to slow start
• Cornyn bill would let 'laser visa' holders stay longer
• Tribe turns hostile toward migrants

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