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One day in 2009, Gloria De La Rosa left her family home in Tucson and headed to Texas where, on the advice of a lawyer, she planned to travel across the U.S.-Mexico border for a green card appointment with US immigration authorities in Juarez.
Jan. 24, 2024
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent processing a line of migrants at a port of entry
The Show spoke with Ariel Ruiz Soto, a senior policy analyst for the Migration Policy Institute, about why policy changes are shifting who is migrating to the U.S. and how they are migrating.
Jan. 23, 2024
Washington narrowly avoided a government shutdown this month. But lawmakers are still mulling a potential deal that would green-light military aid for Ukraine in exchange for crackdowns on asylum at the border. In the meantime, along remote stretches of the Arizona border, officials say that system is overwhelmed.
Jan. 19, 2024
The border fence project in Yuma
A budget proposal released by Gov. Katie Hobbs last week set aside more state money for projects along the border. The governor is proposing two border-focused programs.
Jan. 17, 2024
The Texas Capitol building
The Show spoke with Terry Greene Sterling, a longtime Arizona journalist covering the border and immigration in Arizona, about Texas's new law SB 4 that has been likened to Arizona's controversial SB 1070.
Jan. 17, 2024
fema sign
Pima County has been providing aid to thousands of people who’ve been able to enter the U.S. and begin the legal asylum process. But federal funding for that effort was running out.
Jan. 16, 2024
The Show spoke to one of the people who works directly in the detention centers in our state: Shannon Johnson, manager attorney with the Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project.
Jan. 15, 2024
Pima County Courthouse
Pima County received $5.2 million to continue its work to help asylum seekers. The funding came from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Emergency Food and Shelter Program National Board.
Jan. 13, 2024
Three separate photos are shown in horizontal panels, one on top of the over. Each shows an image of a different jaguar, with a black circle edited over each one to highlight their unique rosettes.
Images captured last month show the eighth wild jaguar documented in the American Southwest in the past three decades. Its appearance is thanks to natural perseverance and decades of cooperation from both sides of the southern border.
Jan. 9, 2024
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
The Lukeville Port of Entry re-opened this month after a high number of migrant arrivals prompted border officers to close it in December. Now, local leaders warn another deadline is still looming.
Jan. 9, 2024
As CBS reports, the Biden administration is again considering whether to make GOP-requested changes to immigration in order to push military aid forward — those could include overhauls to asylum interviews for migrants and the ability to turn away asylum seekers when border officers are overwhelmed.
Jan. 9, 2024
The Lukeville Port of Entry between Lukeville, Arizona, and Sonoyta, Sonora, Mexico
The federal government reopened the Lukeville Port of Entry last week, but officials in Phoenix and at the border said the underlying issues that prompted the closure remain.
More news from the Fronteras Desk
Jan. 5, 2024
Border crossing buildings
The Lukeville Port of Entry is open after a monthlong closure due to a higher number of border crossings nearby.
Jan. 5, 2024
soldiers
Gov. Katie Hobbs says National Guard Troops she sent to the border after the closure of the Lukeville Port of Entry will remain in place even though the port reopened Thursday.
Jan. 4, 2024
Border crossing buildings
The Lukeville Port of Entry opened early this morning in southern Arizona. It’s a busy thoroughfare for travelers coming both north and south that was closed early last month amid an increase in migrants and asylum seekers arriving nearby.
Jan. 4, 2024
Juan Ciscomani
As the Biden administration plans to reopen several ports of entry on the southern border Thursday – including a crossing in Lukeville – Republican congressmen called on the president to reinstate immigration policies from former President Donald Trump’s era.
Jan. 3, 2024
Arizona’s port of entry in Lukeville is reopening at 6 a.m. on Thursday, following a month of bipartisan criticism of the federal government for shutting it down.
More news from the Fronteras Desk
Jan. 2, 2024
employment application
The Pima County Health Department is looking for temporary employees to bulk up a program focused on border health issues, as border officials and aid workers in Arizona respond to a sharp rise in asylum seekers and migrants.
Jan. 1, 2024
Venezuela flag
Venezuelan migrants will be flown back to their country from Mexico under a new deal between the two countries. It’s the latest effort to stem migration to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Jan. 1, 2024
Border crossing buildings
The Arizona Chamber of Commerce is calling on the Biden Administration and Congress to find a way to reopen the Lukeville Port of Entry.
Dec. 27, 2023

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