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1,100 backpacks represent the number of college students who died by suicide in 2018. This event was designed to raise awareness about mental health and encourage suicide prevention.

Can 1,000 Empty Backpacks Save Lives?

May 1, 2019 Also: How Pima County could pay for newly opened migrant shelters; Bridging cultural divides with the Persian language; Tucson author Janni Lee Simner reads from her new book.
Department release photo of police with Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

ICE In Yuma to Probe Documents of Migrants Claiming to be Families

May 1, 2019 HSI agents have been sent to Yuma from ICE interior offices and human smuggling units.
Pima County Sheriff Mark Napier in Nogales, Arizona, Feb. 9, 2017.

Napier Testifies Before House Committee

May 1, 2019 The Pima County sheriff said the border has been in "crisis" for decades.
A woman carries her belongings into the Benedictine Monastery shortly after arriving as part of a group of migrants transported by the Department of Homeland Security from El Paso to Tucson on Feb. 21, 2019.

Pima County Looking for Ways to House Migrants

Apr 29, 2019 The Benedictine Monastery has been used to shelter asylum seekers but will close as development plans move forward.
A census 2010 employee rings a doorbell.

GOP Leaders in Immigrant-Heavy States OK with Census Citizenship Question

Apr 29, 2019 The divide between red and blue states is stark as both prepare for a census that could ask about citizenship for the first time in 70 years.
Nicol at a women's shelter in Nogales, prior to seeking asylum.

Honduran Transgender Woman Granted Asylum

Apr 25, 2019 Nicol Garcia asked for asylum in May, 2018. She spent almost a year in detention.
File image of the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix.

Arizona Ups Oversight of Groups That House Migrant Children

Apr 25, 2019 Most of the new law's provisions take effect immediately.
Guatemalan father with his 5 year old daughter. It took father and daughter almost two weeks to get to the Arizona border. They are asylum seekers staying at a temporary shelter opened by the City of Tucson to relieve the overflow of migrants at Tucson shelters. (April 18, 2019)

The City of Tucson Offers Hope to Migrants in Need

Apr 24, 2019 Also on Arizona Spotlight: Go backstage at Tucson High Magnet School to preview "Our Border Town"; Tucson poet laureate TC Tolbert receives grant from the Academy of American Poets; And, what would you do with the blessing of extra time to be alive?
This March 7, 2019 Customs and Border Protection photo shows a group of more than 100 migrants lined up at the border in the El Paso Sector.

Mexico Says 300K US-Bound Migrants Entered Country in First 3 Months of 2019

Apr 24, 2019 The interior secretary said there has been a change in the flow of migrants entering Mexico.
UA President Robert Robbins addresses the audience at an event called "campus conversation," April 23, 2019.

Campus Conversation Looks at Free Speech, Border Patrol Presence

Apr 23, 2019 A March incident brought protests and calls for resignations on the UA campus.
Protesters make their way to Old Main at the University of Arizona on April 10, 2019. They were demonstrating in support of three students cited for protesting a presentation given in a classroom by Border Patrol agents in March.

Charges Dropped Against UA Students Who Protested Border Patrol on Campus

Apr 22, 2019 Pima County declined to prosecute; the UA code of conduct investigation continues.
Mothers who made the journey from Guatemala with their children. They are staying at a temporary make shift shelter opened by the City of Tucson when shelter space with nonprofits had reached capacity. (April 18, 2019)

City of Tucson Steps In As Nonprofit Migrant Shelters Reach Capacity

Apr 19, 2019 The Tucson city manager's office says that for now, it will work with the nonprofit community to relieve the overflow of migrants being dropped off by Border Patrol.
The port of entry in Douglas, Arizona in April 2016.

Douglas, Cochise County Approve Location for New Port Of Entry

Apr 18, 2019 A new commercial port would be aimed at easing the flow of traffic and industry, as the current port serves both commercial and passenger vehicles.
AZPM is partnering with StoryCorps for One Small Step to record conversations between strangers who hold different political beliefs.

Finding Common Ground with "One Small Step"

Apr 17, 2019 Also on Arizona Spotlight: Free speech debate on campus; "I Dream in Widescreen Returns"; and thoughts on kindness from the Mission Garden.
Migrants who crossed the border near Yuma in tunnels under the border fence stand in line waiting for Border Patrol agents to process them on Jan. 14, 2019.

Yuma Declares Emergency Over Migrant Family Releases

Apr 17, 2019 Mayor Douglas Nicholls said he's looking for federal funding and a "FEMA-like response."
The Modern Languages building on the University of Arizona campus.

UA Police Report Details Border Patrol Protest

Apr 16, 2019 Three people "shouted obscenities" at Border Patrol agents for 40 minutes, report says.

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