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Thirty-foot-high border wall was installed along the border near Sasabe, Arizona, and Mexico in the summer of 2020.

Biden terminates Trump's emergency declaration for border wall construction

Feb 11, 2021 The former president enacted the declaration in 2019 to garner military funds for his wall.
A Customs and Border Protection employee in 2018.

New lawsuit revisits near-fatal Border Patrol shooting in Nogales

Feb 10, 2021 A Tucson man who almost died at a border crossing in 2019 is suing DHS
Aerial view of the border wall at the Tinajas Altas Mountains near Yuma, AZ.

Biden halted border wall construction. Now what?

Feb 5, 2021 Environmental and human rights advocates hope to steer the administration toward a new vision at the border.
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.'

Feb 4, 2021 Tribal leaders and Borderlands communities reflect on their fruitless struggle to stop the wall.
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

Feb 3, 2021 Deal was reached in the final days of the Trump adminstration
U.S. Border Patrol agents near Sasabe, Arizona, March 22.

New report cast doubt on Border Patrol search and rescue efforts for migrants

Feb 3, 2021 No More Deaths analyzed hundreds of distress calls made to aid groups and 911 dispatchers requesting help from the agency
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

Feb 3, 2021 The 2019 change made it harder for immigrants to obtain visas and green cards if they used, or might use, government assistance
Border wall construction at Guadalupe Canyon in southeastern Arizona.

After months of border wall construction, a look at the damage done

Feb 3, 2021 As President Biden takes the helm, conservation groups take stock of the border wall’s environmental impacts.
Joseph R Biden, Jr

A look at border, environmental changes likely under new administration

Jan 29, 2021 President Biden’s executive orders and action on various issues could bring changes to Arizona.
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich in Phoenix, January 2019.

In letter to DHS, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich opposes Biden's deportation moratorium

Jan 28, 2021 The letter follows a 14-day stay against the order issued in Texas this week

Language barriers, wariness make vaccinating immigrants hard

Jan 23, 2021 Poor communication, misinformation and lack of trust create fear and uncertainty
Composed of images taken by the Galileo spacecraft in 1995 and 1998, this reprocessed image of the icy Jovian moon Europa shows cracks, ridges, “microchaos,” and more. We now believe that Europa, like several other moons in the solar system, is an ocean world. Due to heat caused by Jupiter’s gravitational push-and-pull, there is liquid salt water beneath the ice, water that may contain life.

"Beyond Earth's Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight".

Jan 22, 2021 Also on Arizona Spotlight: "DUSTWUN", a film about life, death and trust on the U.S. / Mexico Border.
New border fence going up in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument on Feb. 26, 2020.

Monitors head to the border after order to halt the wall

Jan 22, 2021 On his first day in office, President Joe Biden signed an executive order halting all border wall construction
Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D) during an interview at Arizona Public Media on January 18, 2019.

Rep. Grijalva to introduce new COVID-19 relief bill for border businesses

Jan 20, 2021 The Southern Arizona congressman says issues in border communities have worsened during the pandemic
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

Jan 19, 2021 U.S. law requires unaccompanied minors at the border get special protection, but lawyers say that hasn't been happening
President Donald Trump stands at a section of border wall on the southern border near Yuma, June 23, 2020.

New letter asks Mexican officials to help stop border wall construction

Jan 12, 2021 As Trump visits the border for the last time in his presidency, groups say they want Mexico to stand against more wall.

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