(soft intense music) - [Pati] A defining feature of every country is its borders.

But the lines are never as static as they appear.

The modern-day line between the U.S. and Mexico has rested here.

A 1,951-mile stretch from the Pacific coast to the Gulf of Mexico.

Really?

I want to explore what happens to the people who live, love, dream in the spaces in between.

You gonna give me a ride?

- Sí.

- Let's do it.

(speaking in Spanish language) - Woo-hoo.

I'm Pati Jinich.

Oh my god.

It's so spicy.

(woman laughing) - [Chef] Uno, dos... tres.

(dough slapping) - I'm a chef, a writer, an immigrant.

(meat sizzling) I'm about to eat two pounds of a burrito.

In season two of La Frontera, I'm exploring from the Pacific coast to California and back.

To New Mexico and Chihuahua.

- I will hope for them that they hold on to faith.

(soft tranquil music) - [Pati] A place where the terrain is diverse as its people.

Fronterizos.

- It means that we're always straddling that border.

We're taking the best from both cultures and merging it into our own.

- [Pati] The alchemy of which they are born produces the most inspiring people and unexpected stories.

(soft singing) - You touched my heart.

It was beautiful.

- Thank you.

(children laughing) - [Pati] This is no doubt a place of continuous struggle.

(speaking in Spanish language) - Let me help you with water.

- The idea of just families and people making this journey and perishing, and it's a preventable death.

This is not meant to happen.

- [Pati] But also, of unprecedented possibilities.

Our world of kindness, wonder, and creativity.

- And so we want to welcome the Coro Gay Tejas to our family.

(people clapping) - So how did you navigate your American-Mexican heritage?

- I feel like art helps me kind of explore those worlds.

I feel like it's almost like a dance.

(upbeat music) - Fronterizos have a saying, "Ni de aquí, ni de allá."

"Neither from here, nor there."

To be a borderland, there is to be a part of a third culture.

- So right along here is a good set of skunk tracks.

- One defined by resourcefulness.

This is where every salsa that you have tried began.

(speaking in Spanish language) - Collaboration and empowerment.

Uno, tres (laughs) I'm Pati Jinich.

And this is La Frontera.