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Newly released migrants get food from a buffet set up by aid workers on the bench of a Phoenix-area bus stop.

Coalition Wants Shelter For Newly Released Migrant Families

The current system that places the families at churches is not sustainable, an advocate says.

The entrance to the La Palma Correction Center in Eloy, Arizona, 2019.

ICE: Roughly 400 Immigration Detainees Quarantined in Arizona

The number represented about 15 percent of those quarantined over mumps virus exposure.

Google Street View image of the entrance to the GEO Group's immigrant detention facility in Aurora, Colorado.

2,200 Quarantined Over Mumps Outbreak at Immigration Centers

The outbreak has renewed long-held concerns over access to medical care at immigration facilities.

An immigrant detention center in Nogales, Sonora, is one of five recently closed by the Mexican federal immigration agency.

Mexico Closes 5 Immigrant Detention Centers

A statement from the federal immigration agency cited a lack of "minimum working conditions" at the facilities.

The international line between Mexico and the U.S. ends at the Pacific Ocean, with Tijuana on the left.

Guidelines Ask Agents to Target Spanish Speakers at Border

The guidance applies to a program requiring asylum seekers wait in Mexico.

Rows of razor wire cover the U.S. side of a section of the wall near Nogales, Arizona.

Pima County Votes to Oppose Border Razor Wire, National Emergency

Both resolutions passed the board of supervisors on party-line votes.

The American flag and a flag bearing the seal of the Department of Homeland Security.

Feds Extend Temporary Protected Status for People From Four Countries

A professor says the roughly 10-month extension leaves bigger questions unanswered.

Developer Ross Rulney (right) speaks to Ward 6 City Councilman Steve Kozachik at a public meeting over Rulney's plans for the Benedictine Monastery on June 28, 2018.

Developer on Decision to Turn Monastery Into Temporary Shelter

Ross Rulney eventually plans to build high-end apartments on the property.

A group of migrants walk through a hallway at the Benedictine Monastery in Tucson on February 21, 2019. The monastery is functioning as a temporary shelter for asylum seekers arriving in the U.S.

Inside the Monastery-Turned-Shelter for Migrant Families

Tucson's Benedictine Monastery had been vacant for almost a year before opening its doors to asylum seekers.

Democratic Rep. Ted Deutch speaking in a video still from a U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary hearing, Feb. 26.

Sex Abuse Allegations Come Up at Hearing on Family Separations

A U.S. representative highlighted allegations of sex crimes against migrant children during the Obama and Trump administrations.

Alex Nowrasteh, senior immigration political analyst at the Cato Institute, speaks to Arizona 360 host Lorraine Rivera via Skype.

What Research Says About Immigrant Crime Rates

One report from the Cato Institute found immigrants are less likely than U.S.-born citizens to be convicted of crimes.

Mary Ann Mendoza and Steve Ronnebeck participate in a town hall event for the We Build the Wall organization hosted by the Quail Creek Republicans in Sahuarita on February 8, 2019. Mendoza and Ronnebeck are the parents of two men killed in separate instances by immigrants in the country illegally.

Arizona 'Angel Parents' Speak About Causes Taken Up After Losing Children

The term describes a parent whose child has been killed by an undocumented immigrant.

Tucson's Iconic Benedictine Monastery re-opened temporarily to provide emergency housing to migrants seeking asylum. (February 21, 2019)

Tucson Monastery Sheltering Asylum-Seekers Bused From Texas

A nonprofit is organizing the shelter services; immigration officials say Texas facilities have run out of room.

Signs held by No More Deaths supporters before the start of trial of four volunteers, Jan. 15, 2019.

Charges Dropped Against 4 Migrant Aid Volunteers

The No More Deaths members will be fined but receive no jail time.

Families seeking asylum await processing outside the port of entry in Nogales, Sonora, on Sept. 4, 2018.

Nogales, Sonora, Opens New Shelter For Migrants

With wait times getting longer and temperatures dropping, the city opened a new shelter and started taking in families this week.

"Hold On To Your Weaves" (2018) / photograph by Kennady Schneider

#Black - Exploring Identity with Photography

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