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Tribal members and supporters gather in front of the construction line to wave down O'odham runners coming from Sonora ahead of a cross-border ceremony at Quitobaquito Springs on Sept. 27, 2020.

NPS closes route to Quitobaquito Springs

Sep 29, 2020 Closure comes a day after O'odham leaders held a cross-border ceremony at the spring.
The view of the Tucson Skyline from A Mountain. Oct. 23, 2019.

News roundup: UA COVID app reaches 30,000 devices, Indigenous people protest border-wall construction on traditional lands

Sep 28, 2020 Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, September 28
Demonstrators struggle as National Park Service officers and Border Patrol agents try to pull people from a fallen human chain during a demonstration at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument on Sept. 21, 2020.

Stand off with Border Patrol, National Park Service ends in scuffle with Indigenous-led demonstrators

Sep 22, 2020 O'odham organizers and their supporters stopped construction for over five hours at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
A woman fills out a ballot at a polling place inside Temple Emanu-El in Tucson on Aug. 4, 2020.

Campaign led by DACA recipients aims to engage youth, Latino voters

Sep 15, 2020 In Arizona and across the nation, immigration is a forefront issue this November.
A Hia-Ced O'odham protester sits inside a vehicle to block construction on a stretch of border wall going up in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument on Sept. 9, 2020.

Indigenous activists arrested in demonstration against border wall construction near Quitobaquito Springs

Sep 10, 2020 Two O'odham protesters were arrested for impeding construction in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
Immigrant children at Border Patrol's Nogales warehouse where they were processed and detained in June 2014.

Court ruling mandating sunset of ICE hotel program for migrant children goes into effect

Sep 8, 2020 A Friday ruling by a Los Angeles U.S. District Court judge gave the government until September 15 to end the practice
Cracked mud flats appear on the surface of Quitobaquito pond on July 18, 2020.

Report highlights biodiversity loss at Quitobaquito during border wall construction

Sep 1, 2020 Borderland scientists say that with all the noise "neither the birds nor the bird watchers want to be at Quitobaquito right now."
A Centers for Disease Control illustration of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

Coronavirus risk lessens in Sonora, Mexican officials say

Aug 31, 2020 The Mexican state to Arizona's south has entered a "medium" phase of risk.
A flier at the Mexican Consulate in Tucson notifies visitors of travel restrictions at the U.S.-Mexico border due to COVID-19. August 2020.

Despite travel restrictions, Rocky Point welcoming Arizonans

Aug 28, 2020 The popular tourism destination reopened its beaches in August.
Consul Rafael Barceló Durazo of the Mexican Consulate in Tucson. August 24, 2020.

New top diplomat at the Mexican Consulate in Tucson

Aug 28, 2020 His priorities in his new role and how the pandemic has impacted services the consulate provides.
An Indigenous demonstrator shakes a rattle during the early morning protest in Coolidge on Aug. 26, 2020.

Indigenous activists protest wall contractor in Coolidge

Aug 26, 2020 Demonstrators gathered at Stinger Bridge & Iron to decry border wall construction across ancestral Indigenous border land.
New citizens take the oath of allegiance at Saguaro National Park at the annual Independence Day citizenship ceremony, July 4, 2018.

Citizenship and Immigration Services averts mass staff furloughs

Aug 26, 2020 The agency says aggressive spending cutbacks have allowed it to stave off a plan furlough more than 13,000 employees.
There are approximately 700,000 DACA recipients around the country.

New Citizenship and Immigration Services memo announces the implementation of new DACA guidance

Aug 24, 2020 The announcement follows a series of rule changes outlined by the Trump administration in July.
A man and woman walk past a closed building listed for sale in Nogales, Arizona on August 17, 2020.

Travel restrictions at the border strain Nogales’s economy

Aug 21, 2020 But other areas of the city are continuing to grow.
A customs officer removes packages of drugs hidden inside the rear door of an SUV at the Mariposa Port of Entry in Nogales. May 2019.

Opioid busts on the rise at Arizona ports of entry

Aug 21, 2020 Port officials are also seeing more cases of drugs being smuggled by U.S. citizens.
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

Aug 20, 2020 As a federal report faults ICE's complaint-handling process in detention, a letter from Eloy describes a facility on the brink.

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