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A COVID-19 vaccination site set up on the University of Arizona Mall. January 2021.

Pima County will bus migrants to Tucson

U. S. Border patrol says it can't afford to transport asylum-seekers.
Governor Doug Ducey addresses members of the media in front of a portion of border wall near the Douglas Municipal Airport on March 19, 2021.

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.
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.
Two children color at Casa Alitas' shelter for migrants and asylum-seeking families on Sept. 30, 2019.

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 fencing with concertina wire attached in Douglas, Ariz. January 2021.

An early look at the Biden administration’s approach to immigration policy

President Biden has already approved a slew of directives on immigration policy, but not everything has changed.
Children who are waiting for asylum in the United States with their families in Nogales, Sonora, marched to the border wall Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, to ask the United States to open the border to them.

Arizona reacts as Biden's 'Remain in Mexico' rollback begins

Governor Doug Ducey and Representative Raúl Grijalva addressed the new plan in letters to DHS this week.
Aerial view of the border wall at the Tinajas Altas Mountains near Yuma, AZ.

Biden halted border wall construction. Now what?

Environmental and human rights advocates hope to steer the administration toward a new vision at the border.
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
Indigenous-led protesters walk along a construction line in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Sept. 2020.

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.

Language barriers, wariness make vaccinating immigrants hard

Poor communication, misinformation and lack of trust create fear and uncertainty
The Border Patrol erected this facility for asylum seekers last summer. Congress allocated $708 million for facilities like these and $112 million for "consumables" that was supposed to be spent caring for migrants.

New lawsuit challenges legality of 'Remain in Mexico' program's migrant child removals

U.S. law requires unaccompanied minors at the border get special protection, but lawyers say that hasn't been happening
A group of men, women and children prepare their documents after approaching and surrendering to Border Patrol in the Yuma Sector, 2019.

Arizona migrant border deaths on track for record amid heat

Record heat in Arizona takes its toll
Gail Kocourek, 69, stands inside an area where migrants are processed on the Mexican side of the port of entry in Sasabe. This fall, Kocourek and other volunteers started making bi-weekly trips to the area to hand out food and water to migrants after they've been expelled by Border Patrol agents.

'No right way': Rapid migrant expulsions transform remote border crossing

Aid groups say Trump administration's pandemic-era expulsions trap migrants in a borderland ill-equipped to care for them.
Children who are waiting for asylum in the United States with their families in Nogales, Sonora, marched to the border wall Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, to ask the United States to open the border to them.

Young asylum seekers in Nogales share their stories, plead for relief

Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan goes over the agency's 2020 fiscal year during a news conference at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base on Oct. 14, 2020.

Border apprehensions down, nearly 200k returned to Mexico under COVID-19 policy

Customs and Border Protection's acting commissioner visited Tucson to recap the agency's 2020 fiscal year.
A Border Patrol vehicle.

Border Patrol agents to be equipped with body cameras

The cameras will be distributed to agents stationed along the Mexico border starting next spring.

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