Pima County receives nearly $22 million for asylum seekers
Pima County is receiving nearly $22 million in federal funding to continue services to asylum seekers, who come to Tucson and smaller border communities after being released by Border Patrol.
Pima County to continue migrant services
County will avoid street releases at the end of the week, anticipating federal funding from the $650 million, in the border security funding bill, for shelter and services to asylum seekers.
County discontinues contracts to migrant services
Pima County is discontinuing contracts for services to the more than 2,500 asylum seekers a day, who have been released by Border Patrol. Federal dollars are running out as Congress has yet to agree on more funding for border communities.
Pima County migrant shelter capacity stretched
The system was close to breaking in the days following the end of Title 42.
Local migrant shelter reaching capacity after influx of migrants in Tucson
Last year, Casa Alitas received 100 to 175 people a day. Now, they receive 400 to 450 people a day.
U.S. Border Patrol's new migrant facility in Tucson takes form
The agency told city officials a tent-like facility to house asylum seekers is slated for a plot just outside Tucson.
In Douglas visit, Gov. Doug Ducey calls rising apprehensions a 'man-made crisis' by Biden administriaton
Ducey toured the U.S.-Mexico border with Florida Senator Rick Scott and local law officers, aid groups say they were left out.
Aid groups in Arizona ramp up efforts to host migrants and coordinate care
Amid a record number of border apprehensions, Arizona lawmakers, aid workers respond to new migrant arrivals
Border wall scars: 'It feels like if someone got a knife and dragged it across my heart.'
Tribal leaders and Borderlands communities reflect on their fruitless struggle to stop the wall.
“'Rona needs to stay away!”: How a single mother stays resilient.
Also on Arizona Spotlight: Free meals for our community; and an interview with César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, author of "Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants".
Environmental advocates say planned border construction threatens jaguar corridors
CBP announced plans to build more than 90 miles of border wall in an area advocates say is predominantly remote wilderness.
Group hopes juvenile detention center can be welcoming space for migrants
The Board of Supervisors will vote next week on whether to approve the empty center as temporary migrant housing.
Pima County Votes to Oppose Border Razor Wire, National Emergency
Both resolutions passed the board of supervisors on party-line votes.
Pima County to Review Permit for Border Patrol Checkpoint
The memo ordering the review comes on the heels of a supervisors vote to reject federal funding tied to border enforcement.
Supervisors Vote Against Stonegarden Funding at Rowdy Meeting
The board decided not to accept federal money based on local law enforcement cooperating with federal immigration efforts.
