Star investigation: Arizona’s border wall is being built with anti-drug money. But it won’t stop hard drugs.
Workers prepare foundation for the installation of new border wall panels about 3 miles east of the Lukeville/Sonoyta port of entry. An Arizona Daily Star analysis of federal drug-smuggling cases shows a majority of hard drugs are going through ports of entry rather than being smuggled across the desert./Josh Galemore / Arizona Daily Star For the first […]
Read More →Trick or Treat American-Style
Children from Nogales, Sonora, climb through hole in the international border fence to trick-or-treat in Nogales, Arizona, on Halloween 1987./ Rose Law Group Reporter Notable Photo.
Read More →Arizona lawmaker seeks to impose new liability on ‘sanctuary cities’
By Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services via Arizona Daily Star A state lawmaker wants to put taxpayers of any city that enacts a “sanctuary” policy on the financial hook if police fail to call immigration officials on someone who is a convicted felon, is in this country illegally and goes on to commit another felony. […]
Read More →Trump acted unlawfully by moving money to Texas, Arizona for wall construction
By Megan U. Boyanton and Kailey Broussard | Cronkite News A federal judge in Texas Friday blocked an administration plan to use $3.6 billion in Pentagon funds for border wall construction, calling President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to secure the funds “unlawful.” U.S. District Judge David Briones said Trump cannot use the […]
Read More →[IN-DEPTH] Ancient watering hole in Southern Arizona at risk from border wall construction
An 18-wheeler on Highway 2 in Mexico speeds past Quitobaquito Springs, which is just on the U.S. side of the border near Lukeville./Josh Galemore / Arizona Daily Star By Curt Prendergast | Arizona Daily Star An ancient spring near Lukeville has slaked the thirst of desert travelers for centuries, but its days may be numbered […]
Read More →Arizona delegation splits along party lines on fund shift for border wall
Concertina wire tops the border wall in San Luis, Calif./Ash Ponders for The Washington Post By Joe Ferguson | Arizona Daily Star The Southern Arizona congressional delegation split along party lines over the shift of $3.6 billion in Pentagon funding from constructing military projects to the border wall. Reps. Raúl Grijalva, Ann Kirkpatrick, and Tom […]
Read More →Arizona joins other states calling on Supreme Court to overturn DACA
By Wissam Melhem | Cronkite News Arizona joined 12 other states this week that asked the Supreme Court to roll back Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a program that they say has caused “irreparable harm” to their states. The brief was filed on behalf of 12 attorneys general and one governor, all Republicans, who claimed […]
Read More →Trump administration begins to replace existing border barriers in Arizona using military funds
The existing vehicle barrier, left, and the new wall construction mock-up being upgraded at the US-Mexico border near Santa Teresa, New Mexico, in April. /Customs and Border Protection/Mani Albrecht By Rafael Carranza | Arizona Republic Construction to replace outdated border barriers with newer, taller bollards paid for using military funds is underway along the Arizona-Mexico […]
Read More →Gov. Ducey: Tucson voters should reject ‘sanctuary city’ ballot
By Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services via Arizona Daily Star Gov. Doug Ducey has added his voice to those urging Tucson residents to reject a ballot measure to declare the community a “sanctuary city.” The governor said Thursday that all three mayoral candidates are opposed to the proposal that has gathered enough signatures to be […]
Read More →State politicians speak out against Eloy ICE facility
Felipe Perez, right, Sharon Girard and Sen. Martin Quezada, far left, spoke during a demonstration outside Eloy Detention Center on Thursday morning./Maria Vasquez/PinalCentral By Maria Vasquez | Eloy Enterprise Close to 15 demonstrators gathered outside Eloy Detention Center on Thursday morning for a press conference to criticize conditions and treatment of detainees being held in […]
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