Border Justice Fellows, 2003-2004

Mary Ellen Sanchez
Reporter/Columnist
Kansas City Star

Mary Sanchez is the race and ethnicity reporter and weekly op-ed columnist for The Kansas City Star, where she has worked since 1985. She writes a monthly column for The Poynter Institute's website and is a correspondent for EFE, a wire service based in Madrid, Spain. Sanchez covers a wide range of people and ethnic communities and specializes in immigration. She has traveled extensively throughout Mexico and Central America. The National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the National Association of Black Journalists, and the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation have recognized Sanchez’s work.

Fellowship Project:

• Immigration plan eyed warily; Bush's proposal contains advances and drawbacks
• Beware new immigration bill Plan only hampers work on problems
• Fraud is taking a toll on Hispanics
• Candidate Kobach should choose friends carefully
• Immigration mess left to states; Kansas tuition law is cleaning up federal government's failures
• Immigration clutters anti-terror proposals
• With bounties on their heads, Shadow Wolves patrol U.S.-Mexican border
• Still awaiting an immigration ‘fix’
• Border policies led mostly to more danger
• U.S.-Mexico border claims far too many victims
• New day labor site hopes to solve old problems
• Free trade shifts jobs back and forth over borders
• In Mexico, Printing Truth Can/ Put The Journalist's Life At Risk

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