Mia Osmonbekov is a reporter for The Copper Courier covering education and immigration. She has previously worked for Arizona Capitol Times and La Voz del Interior, and is expected to graduate from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University in 2025.
Mia Osmonbekov
Latest from Mia Osmonbekov
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Smoking—or rather, a lack thereof—could kill this early child development program
Republicans in the Arizona Legislature killed a bill that would extend a tax on cigarettes to vaping, a move that would restore millions in funding for child development.
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Man loses job, banned from Waste Management Open after racist rant goes viral
The emboldened racism mirrors what was seen after Trump was first elected in 2017, running on the same platform of anti-immigrant rhetoric that dehumanizes the Latino community.
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The process behind approving new school facilities and why not every school gets what it wants
New schools have been approved in central Phoenix and Deer Valley, while school boards in south Phoenix and Paradise Valley made the difficult decision to close a number of facilities due to low enrollment.
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Arizona schools brace for the worst as Trump’s immigration raids begin
With the specter of ICE raids looming, schools across Arizona are reassuring families and planning their next steps.
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Half-million mixed-status families in Arizona will face vastly different realities under Trump or Harris immigration policies
Half a million mixed-status families in Arizona will face vastly different realities under Trump or Harris immigration policies.
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After scathing GAO report, Border Patrol agents ordered to stop tossing out migrants’ belongings
US Customs and Border Protection has directed agents to stop discarding migrants’ personal belongings, after a scathing report detailed how medicine, clothes, cell phones, cash, and identity documents have been taken by authorities at holding facilities and never returned.
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‘I don’t want to be in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’’: Abortion access drives Arizona delegates to get out the vote
Democrats in Arizona view the fight over reproductive rights as a key to victory in November. The strategy is front and center at the Democratic National Convention, too.
