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The newly-built border wall
Just like other parts of the state, southern Arizona saw a spate of scorching summer temperatures in July. Rights advocates monitoring the border say that the brutal heat wave had deadly consequences for migrants and asylum seekers crossing the desert.
Sep. 2, 2023
A female Mexican gray wolf in Saguaro National Park
In a letter sent to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a group of conservationists say the effort to build up the population of Mexican gray wolves south of the border isn’t going well. The species is endangered here in the U.S.
Sep. 2, 2023
U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel process and screen migrants
A group of GOP states are suing to stop a Biden administration program that allows Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans to apply to come to the U.S. with a sponsor. The case went to trial this month in Victoria, Texas.
Aug. 29, 2023
Arizona Gov Doug Ducey surveys shipping containers used to close gaps in the border wall
While the state has taken down the containers already, it will still pay more to resolve a lawsuit to fully remediate damage done to the area.
Aug. 29, 2023
Border Patrol
A law passed during the Obama administration was meant to control overtime pay to members of the U.S. Border Patrol after confirmed reports of misuse. Now, two GOP lawmakers from Arizona want to give some experienced agents special overtime pay.
Aug. 24, 2023
A pair of Mexican spotted owl fledglings
The hearing Thursday in Tucson covers a pair of mining projects slated for a stretch of U.S. Forest Service land in southern Arizona. A federal judge will hear their arguments for halting all mining activity while the a larger case proceeds.
Aug. 23, 2023
gavel in front of a statue of the scales of justice
Federal prosecutors say 22 people have been indicted for conspiracy to smuggle undocumented immigrants for profit.
Aug. 22, 2023
woman wades across the Rio Grande
Texas installed roughly 1000-feet of giant orange buoys are held together by sharp metal pieces and surrounded by barbed wire earlier this year.
Aug. 21, 2023
The Biden administration evacuated more than 70,000 Afghans from their country on Aug. 15, 2021. Two years on, many are still in legal limbo, caught in a growing asylum backlog.
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Aug. 21, 2023
Judge's gavel
A Biden administration program that allows people from Nicaragua, Haiti, Venezuela and Cuba to apply to come to the U.S. with the help of a sponsor is going to trial this month. That’s after a coalition of Republican states sued to stop it earlier this year.
Aug. 21, 2023
Gov. Katie Hobbs in her office in January 2023.
Gov. Katie Hobbs earlier this year removed all of the members of the Arizona-Mexico Commission. Now she has appointed 26 members, including a handful who lost their jobs in February.
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Aug. 21, 2023
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, or USCIS, is updating a program that allows some U.S. citizens and permanent residents to apply to bring their family here from Haiti.
Aug. 15, 2023
Arizona Gov Doug Ducey surveys shipping containers used to close gaps in the border wall
Former Gov. Doug Ducey erected a wall made of shipping containers along several miles of the border in southeastern Arizona. Now that it’s been dismantled, Arizona officials are selling them online.
Aug. 15, 2023
downtown tucson
A California man was found dead on a trail in Tucson this week. Forty-six-year-old Kyle Chance was found on a desert trail in the Tucson Mountains. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department says there was no sign of foul play and that his death was likely due to heat exposure.
Aug. 9, 2023
Cochise County residents attend a congressional meeting.
U.S. House Republicans were back in southern Arizona this week for a remote congressional hearing about what they call a crisis at the border created by the Biden administration.
Aug. 9, 2023
U.S. Border Patrol agents with migrants
A new report by a pair of human rights groups details a years-long tally of human rights abuses by Customs and Border Protection officers and Border Patrol agents against migrants.
Aug. 8, 2023
White House
The Biden administration’s asylum rule at the border is here to stay for now after an appeals court ruled in favor of the government’s request to put a lower court ruling on hold.
Aug. 7, 2023
Katie Hobbs
Gov. Katie Hobbs has allocated $3.2 million for law enforcement in Pinal County. It will be divided between police departments in Eloy, Casa Grande, Queen Creek, Florence and Coolidge.
Aug. 7, 2023
Raúl Grijalva
Arizona's Raúl Grijalva and other Democratic lawmakers in Washington say the Biden administration is failing to provide access to legal counsel for asylum seekers held in Customs and Border Protection custody.
Aug. 1, 2023
cbp badge
A new suit alleges Customs and Border Protection is illegally turning away asylum seekers who don’t have an appointment through the agency's smartphone app, CBP One. The app is now the main avenue for migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border hoping to seek protection in the U.S.
Aug. 1, 2023

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