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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

Jul 28, 2020 Furloughs have been rescheduled for the end of August unless emergency funding gets approved, a union steward said.
Census Day is April 1, and the snapshot of where Americans live impacts billions of dollars of funding each year.

Analysis shows how Trump's census change would impact Congress

Jul 24, 2020 The Pew Research Center used 2017 data to estimate how many undocumented people are in each state.
Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge encompasses nearly 118,000 acres southwest of Tucson and includes a stretch of the border with Mexico.

Work starts on new section of border wall in national wildlife refuge

Jul 24, 2020 North-Dakota-based Fisher Sand and Gravel has broken ground on a $1.3 billion project in southeast Arizona.
Quitobaquito pond, July 18, 2020.

'A worst-case scenario': Leaks, dust, water pumping and drought plague Quitobaquito

Jul 23, 2020 Border-hugging spring and its pond are sacred to Hia C-ed O'odham and the Tohono O'odham communities
Protesters in 2019 at the Supreme Court, which rejected a Trump administration plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. Now the president is directing the Census Bureau to take “all appropriate action” to determine the number of undocumented immigrants, even without the question.

Critics: Trump order to discount undocumented migrants in census will fail

Jul 22, 2020 Opponents immediately vowed to sue, saying the move was unconstitutional and unenforceable.

Daily news roundup: Federal unemployment set to run out, immigration issues loom over Washington

Jul 20, 2020 Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, July 20.
A woman and child embrace along the border in San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora where migrants seeking asylum formed an encampment along the sidewalk as they waited to make formal requests with U.S. Customs officers at the San Luis Port of Entry in December 2018.

COVID-19 closures hit already-backlogged immigration courts

Jul 17, 2020 More than a million people are awaiting immigration court hearings nationwide, according to estimates.
DACA supporters gathered outside ICE in Phoenix on June 18, 2020, to celebrate the Supreme Court's ruling to continue the DACA program for now.

US District Court says Trump administration must accept new DACA applications

Jul 17, 2020 Policy experts say the administration has failed to comply with the Supreme Court ruling.
A construction truck hauls dirt alongside the border wall in Sasabe on July 13, 2020.

Border wall construction raises concerns about environmental impacts

Jul 17, 2020 Tony Paniagua visited Sasabe and the Coronado National Memorial, where projects are underway.
Construction underway on a section of border wall in Organ Pipe National Monument, Sept. 18, 2019.

Border wall project based on outdated model, report finds

Jul 17, 2020 A federal report says CBP ignored its own priorities for where to build and relied on limited information about border crossings.
Blanca Sierra Reyes, 27, applied for DACA eight years ago and has renewed every two years since. She graduated with a master's degree in social work from ASU in spring 2019, an achievement she said would not have been possible without DACA.

Despite Supreme Court ruling, DACA slow to be restored

Jul 13, 2020 The Supreme Court's ruling to uphold the Obama-era program went into effect Monday
A signpost designating a segment of the Arizona Trail.

Arizona Trail southern trailhead closed during border wall construction

Jul 10, 2020 The trail's start will be closed for months so the Trump administration can install a bollard-style wall in the area.
The view of the Tucson Skyline from A Mountain. Oct. 23, 2019.

Daily News Roundup: AZ COVID-19 cases top 100K, primary registration due, cross-border infections

Jul 6, 2020 Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, July 6
A drone photo shows construction work beginning in the San Pedro riverbed on June 30, 2020.

Border wall construction begins across San Pedro River

Jul 2, 2020 The controversial project across Arizona's last free-flowing river is underway.
A court document submitted by federal attorneys May 20 eliminates funding for a stretch of border wall that would have crossed through tribal land.

Border wall workers come down with COVID-19

Jul 2, 2020 Nearly a dozen people working on President Trump’s border wall in Arizona have been infected with the coronavirus.
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"

Jul 2, 2020 Also on Arizona Spotlight: Tucson Samaritans' 18 year mission continues; and how the border wall endangers the future of the Sonoyta mud turtle.

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