Produced by Hector Galan, Galan Productions, Austin, Texas
In the border region of South Texas, descendants of the first Spanish colonists are fighting a legal battle to gain compensation for land they claim was taken from their ancestors after the region became a part of the United States. In 1848, the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo established the Rio Grande as the border. The treaty was supposed to guarantee the rights of those Mexican landowners who chose to stay in what is now the United States.
This story examines present day developments in a legal war that has been raging for more than 150 years. Interviews with legal experts, genealogists, experts from the Texas General Land Office, heirs to the land and ethnic and cultural specialists provide multiple perspectives on fundamental questions about who really owns the land in the Rio Grande Valley border region.
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Produced by Matthew Sneddon, KNME-TV, Albuquerque, New Mexico
The economies of Juarez, Mexico and its sister city, El Paso, Texas are driven by a system of assembly plants known as maquiladoras. There are more than 600 maquiladoras in Juarez, two-thirds of them owned by U.S. companies. Since the first maquiladora was built in Juarez in 1976, the population of the city has increased nearly five-fold to more than 1.25 million, making it the largest Mexican city on the border. The Rio Grande fuels Juarez and El Paso's water supply.
However, the more than 10 million people who live in these desert communities have begun to exhaust the Rio Grande's capacity to support them.
This segment focuses on one Rancho Anapra family faced with the realities of living in a desert community with no running water. It examines the factors that contributed to growth of this particular border region: the Rio Grande, the maquiladoras and the promise of a better life.
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Produced by Hector Galan, Galan Productions, Austin, Texas
Each year beginning in September and ending in late March, thousands of people migrate to the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas from the north. This migration includes two groups of people: more than 250,000 tourists, called "Winter Texans", and thousands of migrant farm workers returning home for the winter. Although they differ markedly in income, both groups converge upon a 60-mile stretch along the Texas-Mexico border.
Both the Winter Texans and the migrant farm workers create a major impact on the border region when they arrive each year. The Winter Texans infuse $350 million into the local economy while the migrant farm workers who are residents of this region have difficulty finding jobs, resulting in an unemployment rate that is one of the highest in the nation. This segment examines how these two groups, though they live side by side, remain largely isolated from one another.
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Produced by Hector Gonzalez, KUAT-TV, Tucson, Arizona 
Until recently, members of the Tohono O'odham tribe who live in the Sonoran desert have freely traveled to their traditional lands in Mexico and returned without incident. But a dramatic increase in the number of Border Patrol officers on their reservation, who are apprehending undocumented immigrants and searching for drug smugglers, is bringing an end to that.
The Gadsen Purchase of 1854 transferred the northern half of the O'odham territory to the United States, while the southern part remained in Mexico. Today, the three million-acre Tohono O'odham reservation shares a 60-mile border with Mexico. To the tribal government, the border patrol situation has become critical. The segment documents the Tohono O'odham tribe members' decision to meet with members of the other tribes along the border to discuss the introduction of a bill in Congress addressing their crossing and re-crossing of the international border.
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Produced by Espinosa Productions, San Diego, California 
Richard Montoya, Herbert Siguenza and Ric Salinas are theater artists who form the Latino comedy troupe called Culture Clash. Their style resembles the best of the vaudevillians of this country and Latin America. This story explores the development of their theater piece called "Bordertown", commissioned by the San Diego Repertory Theatre. Through behind the scenes footage and interviews with Culture Clash, this segment unveils the shaping of this play through the imaginations of Culture Clash as they offer their interpretation of the region.
In "Bordertown", Culture Clash examines the largest pair of border towns, San Diego and Tijuana. To create material for the play, Culture Clash interviewed more than 100 people in both cities and combined the responses, developing several characters whose lives are represented on the stage. Culture Clash uses creative ways to capture the characters who live in the region. Some of these characters are unusual choices, like Shamu, Sea World's killer whale, and a married couple representing the U.S. and Mexico.
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