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U.S. Supreme Court

Justices dismiss Trump-era immigration case

Ruling is a loss for Arizona's Attorney General.
A group of migrants and Border Patrol agents along the border fence in Yuma County. June 2021.

Yuma mayor: US responding to border, emergency easing

Asylum seekers picked up sooner in Yuma.
U.S. Supreme Court building, Washington, D.C.

Supreme Court to hear Arizona immigration challenge

The Attorney General wants to force the enforcement of an immigration rule the federal government no longer wants to defend.
File image of a Border Patrol vehicle on patrol along the Arizona-Mexico border.

Border by numbers: all Border Patrol sectors aren't equal

Data show who crosses the border depends on location.
A stage inside the former Ann Ott Elementary School in Phoenix now serves as the intake area for staff and volunteers with the International Rescue Committee who process asylum-seeking families staying at the former school-turned shelter.

Rural officials say towns are ill-prepared for asylum seekers

Mayor Chris Riggs says his town doesn't have a shelter or aid groups to care for families.
President Joe Biden signs executive orders at his desk in the Oval Office on Jan. 28, 2021.

US ends deal with Arizona designed to restrict Biden on immigration

Deal was reached in the final days of the Trump adminstration
The Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona provides food to about 200,000 people each year.

Rights advocates applaud Biden's planned review of public charge rule

The 2019 change made it harder for immigrants to obtain visas and green cards if they used, or might use, government assistance
Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf, Feb. 26, 2020.

DHS head touts immigration policy at Arizona sheriffs' roundtable

Chad Wolf promoted the Migrant Protection Protocols as safe, though critics say the policy fails obligations to asylum seekers.
An image of the group of Cuban asylum seekers and the letter they sent from the La Palma Correctional Center in Eloy.

Asylum seekers describe self-harm, faulty COVID-19 response at ICE detention center

As a federal report faults ICE's complaint-handling process in detention, a letter from Eloy describes a facility on the brink.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan, in 2016.

CBP head defends accelerated border expulsions, blames migrants for increasing COVID-19 risk

Commissioner Mark Morgan spoke to the media ahead of agency's release of July arrest data.
New citizens take the oath of allegiance at Saguaro National Park at the annual Independence Day citizenship ceremony, July 4, 2018.

Fees for several immigration services to increase

Facing a $1.2 billion budget shortfall, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is making immigration more costly.
No More Deaths said since 2004, Byrd Camp has provided aid to migrants crossing through the desert and usually operates without incident. But on the morning of July 30, the group says Border Patrol agents entered the property to arrest a migrant receiving care there. Agents on horseback, in cars and on foot continued to surveil the area surrounding the camp into Friday evening.

Border Patrol agents raid No More Deaths migrant aid camp

The group says the event is the first of its kind in over a year.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services approved more than 6.6 million people to be citizens in the last decade.

Planned furloughs of USCIS workers delayed

Furloughs have been rescheduled for the end of August unless emergency funding gets approved, a union steward said.
Ryan Parker Knox (left) and Joseph McGrath performing "The Mark on the Wall" by Virginia Woolf in the AZPM radio studio.

Rogue Radio presents Virginia Woolf's "The Mark on the Wall"

Also on Arizona Spotlight: Tucson Samaritans' 18 year mission continues; and how the border wall endangers the future of the Sonoyta mud turtle.
There are approximately 700,000 DACA recipients around the country.

Supreme Court rules against Trump administration bid to cancel DACA

Hundreds of thousands of young immigrants around the country are DACA recipients.
Advocates have scrambled to find answers for DACA recipients amid the the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, the fate of the program is still up in the air.

As Supreme Court nears decision, thousands of DACA recipients are on the COVID-19 front lines

The court could rule on the future of the Obama-era policy and some 650,000 current recipients in the coming weeks.

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