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Women prepare food for dozens of families at Centro de Esperanza migrant shelter in Sonoyta, Sonora.

Post Title 42, some migrants have hope of gaining asylum

With improvements to the federal CBP One app, some migrants who wait along the U.S.-Mexico border in Sonora have hope they’ll get an appointment to seek asylum while others still wait with little change in sight.

Children of the Holocaust: The story of Andrew Schot

Also on Arizona Spotlight: A look into the bird and plant species in Navopatia.
The Mexican gray wolf pups have an affinity to crawl towards each other and their mother for warmth and comfort. The piling reflex is affectionately called a "puppy pile."

Coexisting in rural spaces

How the Mexican Wolf Recovery Program is succeeding.
Animation from "Home is Somewhere Else" (2022), directed by Carlos Hagerman and Jorge Villalobos.

"Home is Somewhere Else" animates the migrant experience.

Also on Arizona Spotlight: Meet AZPM border affairs reporter Danyelle Khmara; and multi-faceted artist Rick Wamer discusses his poetry collection "Long Shadow Days: Grief Walking".
A stretch of border fencing east of Douglas constructed as part of President Trump's initiative to erect a taller wall along the southern border. November 2020.

US, Mexico agree on tighter immigration policies at border

Homeland Security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall spent Tuesday meeting with Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
University associate professor and author, Tim Z. Hernandez, visits the headstone in Fresno where most of the 1948 airplane crash victims were buried.

Airplane Crash from 1948 is Revisited and Researched

A professor and author is trying to find the families of all 32 victims.
A male elegant trogon in Madera Canyon feasts on a caterpillar it picked off a tree.

New Film Focuses on the Unique Sky Islands of Arizona

Thousands of different species depend on this habitat
The Machida family as they waited for transportation to an internment camp in Hayward, California in May 1942.

"Citizen / Enemy" at the Tucson Desert Art Museum looks at the legacy of Japanese incarcerations during World War II.

Also on Arizona Spotlight: Yume Japanese Garden is a dream come true for founder Patricia Deridder; and director Natalia Almada on the connections between humanity, technology & nature in her film "Users."
File image of border fencing in Cochise County, Arizona.

Arizona rancher denies killing Mexican shot dead by border

Lawyer for the defendant says he did shoot at armed smugglers earlier in the day.
The U.S.-Mexico border fence.

Arizona rancher held on $1M bond in killing near US border

Santa Cruz County officials believe the victim was a Mexican citizen.
The value of remittances to Mexico has been on the rise in recent years.

Arizona tracks money transfers to Mexico

ACLU calls it abuse, wants database shut down.
A cross marking the place where a man in his 30s died in 2009 lays a few hundred yards from one of the water stations Humane Borders sets out for migrants crossing the desert.

Missing Migrant Program Summit brings awareness to risk of migrant deaths

Officials from local, national and non-governmental agencies came together to exchange ideas.
A handgun and ammunition.

Mexico sues 5 AZ gun shops

Three of the shops named in the suit are in Tucson.
Mariachi Aztlán de Pueblo High School performing.

Mariachi builds bridges between generations.

Also on Arizona Spotlight; The history of Rukin Jelks and the Rillito Park Racetrack; memories of being a Tucson teen in the 1970s; and a teenager in Hermosillo who is an emerging film composer.
Fruit stacked at the Mariposa Port of Entry.

The Buzz: USMCA turns 2

How are Arizona's importers & exporters doing under the new trade deal?
Migrants staying at Jesús el Buen Pastor, a migrant shelter in Tapachula, Mexico, line up for a free meal of black beans and tortillas on March 8, 2022. Guests are not allowed to bring food or drinks into the shelter and can’t take meals to go. Although migrants here have a roof, free meals and a mat or bed to sleep on, they must follow certain rules to stay.

Housing options limited for migrants forced to wait in southern Mexico

Sleeping outside for some is seen as better than staying in a shelter.

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