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As Phoenix city council members consider how to spend its next allotment of federal relief funds, they’re prioritizing homelessness and low-income housing but some say the city needs to give special attention to a specific population.
Apr. 12, 2022
Citizenship and Immigration Services will now accept online renewal applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. That's the Obama-era policy that gives some undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children a work permit and temporary protection from deportation.
Apr. 12, 2022
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators, including Arizona Democrats Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly, introduced a bill that would extend a pandemic-era policy that restricts access to asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. But several Arizona nonprofits are speaking out against the measure.
Apr. 8, 2022
Republicans and some Democrats in Washington are aiming to keep a Trump-era public health policy restricting asylum at the border in place by tying it to a sweeping COVID-19 spending bill.
Apr. 6, 2022
When President Biden took office in 2021, he ordered a halt to border wall construction. There’s little Arizona Republicans can do to finish what the Trump administration started. But that doesn’t necessarily matter to GOP voters.
Apr. 5, 2022
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it will terminate Title 42 in May. As the May 23 end date gets closer, community groups along the border are preparing for the change.
Apr. 5, 2022
An Arizona border city’s mayor has voiced concerns how his community will be affected by the Biden administration’s plan to lift the ban on asylum-seekers at the U.S-Mexico border on public health grounds.
Apr. 4, 2022
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will end Title 42, the protocol that allows border officers to turn away migrants and asylum seekers because of the pandemic, on May 23. The news, released in a termination notice written by Director Rochelle Walensky on Friday, confirms reports from earlier this week saying the Biden administration was expected to roll back the protocol.
Apr. 1, 2022
A federal court in California has approved a settlement that bars Immigration and Customs Enforcement and immigration judges from setting bonds without considering a detainee’s ability to pay.
Mar. 31, 2022
The Biden administration is expected to end the pandemic-era protocol Title 42, which allows border officers to quickly turn migrants and asylum seekers back to Mexico on public health grounds, by late May.
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Mar. 30, 2022
Title 42 is up for another review Wednesday. The pandemic-era policy enacted in March of 2020 that allows border officers to swiftly turn away migrants on public health grounds. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been reassessing the policy, and so far renewing it, every 60 days.
Mar. 29, 2022
This week, a federal judge in Ohio blocked some of the new immigration enforcement priorities outlined by the Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security. The lawsuit was brought by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich and his counterparts from Montana and Ohio.
Mar. 23, 2022
According to the UN Refugee Agency, more than 3.5 million refugees have fled Ukraine since Russia launched its invasion late last month. And while many have moved elsewhere in Europe, some have come to the U.S. through our southern border.
Mar. 23, 2022
The Department of Homeland Security says it will allow Ukrainians to be exempt from a pandemic-era policy that allows border officers to turn migrants and asylum seekers away on public health grounds.
Mar. 22, 2022
Sunday marked the second anniversary of Title 42, the pandemic-era policy enacted by the Trump administration that allows border officers to turn almost everyone back to Mexico or to their home countries on public health grounds.
Mar. 21, 2022
Enacted by The trump administration almost two years ago to the day, Title 42 is a pandemic-era policy that allows border officers to quickly turn away migrants and asylum seekers on public health grounds.
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Mar. 17, 2022
The Department of Homeland Security will grant temporary protected status, or TPS, to Afghans who were in the U.S. by March 15.
Mar. 17, 2022
While many claim it is better than using ankle monitors, some are concerned about the app using location data to track immigrants.
Mar. 10, 2022
Federal authorities are again dropping off migrants at or near the Greyhound bus station in Phoenix.
Mar. 4, 2022
One of the biggest border issues is the Migrant Protection Protocols — commonly known as “Remain in Mexico.” On March 2, Arizona Department of Homeland Security Director Tim Roemer testified on behalf of the program.
Mar. 3, 2022
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