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TweetPinShareBy Eileen Mamaghani and Ellis Preston/Cronkite News WASHINGTON, D.C. – The recent incursion by masked federal agents on Tohono O’odham land didn’t just anger that tribe, which has been trying to block border …
Use of masked agents on Tohono O’odham land sparks Native outrage at Cherokee DHS chief Markwayne Mullin Read More
TweetPinShareBy Kyle Sekenski and Marcus Reichley/Cronkite News WASHINGTON – Federal efforts to convert a Surprise warehouse to an immigration detention center will be stalled pending an environmental review, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes …
ICE moves ahead with plan to convert Surprise warehouse for immigrant detention, but review delays project Read More
TweetPinShareBy Dermont Stevenson and Audrey Lippert/Cronkite News FLAGSTAFF – Surrounded by boxes of information packets, a Keep Flagstaff Together volunteer kneeled in front of a young boy in a parking lot in the …
ICE opening a new office in Flagstaff: Residents worry about tactics, tourism, and terror Read More
TweetPinShareBy Alysa Horton/Cronkite News WASHINGTON – The uproar over an immigration detention center planned for a converted warehouse in Surprise, Ariz., continues to mount. More than a thousand residents turned out …
Uproar over Surprise ICE facility prompts Gosar to demand transparency from Noem Read More
TweetPinShareWASHINGTON – Rep. Greg Stanton joined the effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Tuesday as outrage mounted in Congress over two killings this month by federal immigration …
Three-fourths of House Democrats now back impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Read More
TweetPinShareDear Editor, The United States of America is a constitutional democracy in which the Constitution is the supreme law of the land. Every law enforcement officer and agent, indeed every …
Letter to the Editor: ICE is Acting in a Manner that is Un-American Read More
TweetPinShareBy Collin Hodge/Cronkite News WASHINGTON, D.C. – Immigration raids at houses of worship remain infrequent. But arrests last week at two Los Angeles-area churches have stoked fear among migrants and …
ICE arrests at Los Angeles churches stoke fear in Arizona that migrant raids at houses of worship are ramping up Read More
TweetPinShareInconsistent, thin ice is not safe Contributed Article/Courtesy AZGFD PHOENIX — Before taking that first step on an ice-covered lake to do some fishing or to simply enjoy the winter …
AZGFD, national forests urge caution on lake ice Read More
TweetPinSharePhoto By Peg Hunter/Creative Commons: Detainees are silhouetted against windows of the Eloy Detention Center in this November 2018 photo. Eloy is one of the privately-run prisons in Arizona that …
Biden ban on new private prison contracts will not reach ICE detainees Read More
TweetPinShareContributed Photo/Courtesy ICE: Border Patrol agents line up a group of 128 illegal immigrants located Friday. Contributed Article AJO – Ajo Station Border Patrol agents encountered a group of 128 …
Agents encounter 128 illegal immigrants abandoned by smugglers Read More