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A group of about 100 people protest enforcement of SB 1070 outside of the Tucson Police Department in downtown Tucson in 2013.

Looking back at SB 1070 a decade later

Aug 7, 2020 Though the infamous “show me your papers” law was partially struck down, it has left a legacy in Arizona.
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

Aug 7, 2020 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

Aug 4, 2020 Facing a $1.2 billion budget shortfall, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is making immigration more costly.
A photo accompanying a media release from No More Deaths saying Border Patrol on Friday, July 31 raided a camp where the group was providing aid.

Multiple arrests in Border Patrol raid on migrant aid camp, second this week

Aug 1, 2020 Agency entered a medical aid camp run by the humanitarian group No More Deaths on Friday, executing a federal warrant.
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

Aug 1, 2020 The group says the event is the first of its kind in over a year.
Santiago Castiello-Gutiérrez works on his computer at the University of Arizona on July 28, 2020. Castiello-Gutiérrez is an international student working toward his Ph.D. in higher education.

Pandemic creates added pressures for international students

Jul 31, 2020 The UA has about 3,700 international students.
Construction of 30-foot high steel bollard wall on or near the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge near Arivaca in July 2020.

Border wall construction heightens environmental concerns in sensitive habitats

Jul 31, 2020 Local residents, a sheriff and a wildlife expert weigh in on the impacts of physical barriers at the southern border.
Reyna Montoya is a DACA recipient and the CEO and founder of Aliento, a nonprofit that helps mixed immigration status families work through trauma. She said the new state bill would give more Arizona graduates a chance to stay in the state for college.

'Show me your papers': A decade after SB 1070

Jul 30, 2020 The contentious state law went into effect 10 years ago, and its impact lives on in a generation of immigrants.
Cracked mud flats appear on the surface of Quitobaquito pond on July 18, 2020.

Scientists: Border wall construction wreaking havoc at Quitobaquito Springs

Jul 30, 2020 More than two dozen ecologists, biologists and hydrologists say the desert oasis is in worse shape than ever.
A boy in San Luis, Mexico looks through the fencing and concertina wire that separates San Luis, Mexico and San Luis, Arizona, December 2018.

Report: Coronavirus exacerbates existing health crisis for migrants at the border

Jul 29, 2020 The report found migrants waiting south of the border face conditions that make them particularly susceptible to communicable diseases.
Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf, Feb. 26, 2020.

Trump administration memo changes DACA protections, at odds with ruling

Jul 28, 2020 Legal battles continue despite a June Supreme Court ruling upholding the Obama-era program.
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.

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