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Lorraine Eiler's great grandfather was one of several Hia C-ed O'odham who used to live at Quitobaquito Springs.

After the wall, border residents take stock of what's next

The Trump administration is expected to finish 450 miles of wall by the end of the year.
New border fence going up in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument on Feb. 26, 2020.

Congress approves almost $1.4 billion for border wall

The money was brought to the floor Monday along with a broader COVID-19 relief bill.
A group of men, women and children prepare their documents after approaching and surrendering to Border Patrol in the Yuma Sector, 2019.

Arizona migrant border deaths on track for record amid heat

Record heat in Arizona takes its toll
Agnese Nelms Haury

A Tucson Original: Agnese Haury

Listen to an oral history of Agnese Haury's remarkable life, as told by those who knew and loved her.
A cyclist wears a bandana over his face as he bikes in Nogales, March 2020.

Santa Cruz County has one of the state's highest COVID-19 positivity rates

The border county has some 46,000 residents.
The search for lost loved ones is continuous in and around Brooks County, Texas. Omar Roman-Gonzalez and Michelle Chinos put up flyers in the search for Omar's brother Homero Roman, who had already been missing for two years when the film begins.

"Missing in Brooks County" captures perseverance and tragedy from the U.S. / Mexico border.

Also on Arizona Spotlight: Live Theater Worksop's outdoor drive-in stage experience "Having Our Say"; and some intricate acoustic swing from The Django Shredders.
Gail Kocourek, 69, stands inside an area where migrants are processed on the Mexican side of the port of entry in Sasabe. This fall, Kocourek and other volunteers started making bi-weekly trips to the area to hand out food and water to migrants after they've been expelled by Border Patrol agents.

'No right way': Rapid migrant expulsions transform remote border crossing

Aid groups say Trump administration's pandemic-era expulsions trap migrants in a borderland ill-equipped to care for them.
The Tucson Skyline. October 23, 2019.

News roundup: Napier concedes in Pima sheriff's race, Ducey issues COVID-19 video, virus testing at PCC

Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, November 16
Construction trucks drive along the border wall in Sasabe on July 13, 2020.

Senate proposes budget with almost $2B in border wall funding

The Senate and House have until next month to agree on a short- or long-term budget.
Thirty-foot-high border wall was installed along the border near Sasabe, Arizona, and Mexico in the summer of 2020.

Joe Biden inherits Trump's border wall — and its lawsuits

Candidate Biden said he would stop construction but never said he would tear down the new border wall.
Guadalupe Canyon is a remote, rugged area in the Southwest where the Trump administration is currently racing to complete construction of a border wall.

In Arizona, building a wall — and destroying a canyon

In a mountain range too steep to cross, the Department of Homeland Security is spending millions of dollars on five miles of border wall.
Construction nears the end on the wall section across the San Pedro River in October 2020.

DHS marks milestone as wall construction severs wildlife corridors

New border wall construction is nearly done in some of the most environmentally sensitive areas in Arizona.
Children who are waiting for asylum in the United States with their families in Nogales, Sonora, marched to the border wall Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, to ask the United States to open the border to them.

Young asylum seekers in Nogales share their stories, plead for relief

President Donald Trump stands at a section of border wall on the southern border near Yuma, June 23, 2020.

SCOTUS to hear border wall and asylum seeker suits

A federal appeals court recently ruled the administration was illegally using military funds to pay for 11 segments of the wall.
An art installation on the exterior of Kino Border Initiative's facility depicts one hand grasping another. The nonprofit provides humanitarian aid for deportees and migrants in Nogales, Sonora.

Border restrictions leave asylum seekers stranded in Nogales, Sonora

Many continue to receive humanitarian aid at the Kino Border Initiative.
Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan goes over the agency's 2020 fiscal year during a news conference at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base on Oct. 14, 2020.

Border apprehensions down, nearly 200k returned to Mexico under COVID-19 policy

Customs and Border Protection's acting commissioner visited Tucson to recap the agency's 2020 fiscal year.

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