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Santa Cruz County Sheriff David Hathaway
Lawmakers and local officials were in Nogales Monday morning — where they say Congress is fueling a crisis by failing to pass border and immigration reform.
Mar. 18, 2024
Side by side photos of Donald Trump and Joe Biden
KJZZ’s Friday NewsCap revisits some of the biggest stories of the week from Arizona and beyond. Former state schools Superintendent Jaime Molera of Molera Alvarez and Democratic strategist Tony Cani joined The Show.
Mar. 15, 2024
Warren Petersen at podium
The Show spoke with state Senate President Warren Petersen about Arizona GOP plans to continue to send border-related bills to Gov. Katie Hobbs after her veto.
Mar. 14, 2024
Vote sign
The false notion that undocumented immigrants are affecting federal elections has been floating around for over 100 years, experts say, but this year, due in part to an increase in migrants at the southern U.S. border, the idea could have new potency.
Mar. 14, 2024
Woman and child sits in room
Migrants who are seeking asylum in the U.S. wait apprehensively at the U.S.-Mexico border and in Arizona at places like Monte Vista Baptist Church in Phoenix for their immigration court hearings.
Mar. 13, 2024
People sit around table
With record numbers of migrants arriving at the border in recent months, Douglas Mayor Donald Huish is working to find alternative solutions to avoid so-called “street releases” of asylum seekers by Border Patrol into the community with no resources.
Mar. 12, 2024
Warren Petersen at podium
Arizona Republican lawmakers are promising to bring back a border security bill that got vetoed last week. On party lines, Republicans passed a bill to make crossing the border outside of a port of entry a state crime.
Mar. 11, 2024
Black bear looking through border wall
A photo of a black bear on the border wall near Naco, Arizona, in from 2018. However, a video from conservation group Sky Island Alliance shows a black bear trying in vain to get through the wall in October 2023.
Mar. 11, 2024
People hold up two signs
Republican state lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs agree — they say the federal government has fallen short in securing the state’s southern border. But they are at odds over a Republican package of bills that would restrict immigration.
More Arizona politics news
Mar. 6, 2024
Border crossing buildings
A new study from the Pew Research Center says Latinos in the U.S. view the sheer number of migrants trying to enter the country at the Southwest border as a problem. But they also don’t view bigger border walls or increased deportations as the solution.
Mar. 6, 2024
Tomas Robles, said the International Rescue Committee’s Welcome Center is also facing a funding cliff — even as they have taken in thousands of migrants dropped off in metro Phoenix by the Border Patrol recently.
Mar. 6, 2024
border patrol agent with asylum seekers
LA Times reporter Andrea Castillo dug into a new pattern that has emerged in where migrants cross the U.S. border.
Mar. 5, 2024
Woman wearing striped shirt
"This bill does not secure our border,'' the governor said in a brief veto message. She also said it "will be harmful for communities and businesses in our state, and burdensome for law enforcement personnel.''
Mar. 4, 2024
Sens. Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema
U.S. Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly are again calling on Congress to renew funding for Pima County’s migrant and asylum-seeker assistance programs.
Mar. 4, 2024
Book cover and portrait of man
John Washington is a journalist who’s covered the border for a long time. In his new book, he makes the case for open borders. In fact, that’s the title of the book. He joined The Show to talk about why that doesn’t mean no borders.
Mar. 4, 2024
Katie Hobbs
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is headed to Mexico, but not to tackle immigration and border security issues. The governor and business leaders, including Arizona Commerce Authority President and CEO Sandra Watson, will instead focus on trade and economic development.
Feb. 27, 2024
Migrants processed near Ajo, Arizona, in May 2023
Tucson councilmembers discussed several options for what could come next — including asking the Border Patrol to drop off migrants at a federal facility, like the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, and getting more assistance from the state.
Feb. 27, 2024
Immigration visa form with pencil
The event is organized by Chicanos Por La Causa, the Consulate General of Mexico in Nogales and the community group Centro Comunitario Los Nogales.
Feb. 26, 2024
migrants detained at the border
President Joe Biden is reportedly poised to sign an executive order that would prevent people crossing the border illegally from seeking asylum. Arizona Republic editor Elvia Díaz says the move will not be a magic wand.
Feb. 26, 2024
The Arizona State Senate building
Republican lawmakers at the Arizona Legislature advanced multiple immigration bills Wednesday that drew comparisons to the controversial SB 1070 immigration law that passed over a decade ago.
Feb. 21, 2024

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