Immigration
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Mexican border states prepare migrant shelters as Trump begins deportation campaign
Migrant shelters are being constructed in Nogales, Mexico — across from Nogales, Arizona — on soccer fields and in a gymnasium.
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Trump administration throws out policies limiting migrant arrests at sensitive spots like churches
Officers enforcing immigration laws will now be able to arrest migrants at sensitive locations like schools and churches after the Trump administration threw out policies limiting where those arrests could happen as the new president seeks to make good on campaign promises to carry out mass deportations.
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ACLU files lawsuit against Trump administration over birthright citizenship executive order
President Donald Trump wasted no time implementing his campaign promises, including executive orders that target immigrants and also issuing a law against birthright citizenship that violates the Constitution.
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Court rules no new applicants for DACA policy, which shielded immigrants who came to U.S. as children
A federal appeals court on Friday ruled against Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA), an Obama-era policy to shield immigrants who came to the country illegally as young children, only three days before Donald Trump takes office with pledges of mass deportations.
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Arizona elects sheriff known for racial profiling—and passes a law to let him do it
Cruelty towards immigrants has been approved by voters at the county, state, and federal level.
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Arizona’s immigrant communities are preparing for worst-case scenarios after election
Many see the unease brought about by the November Election results as a continuation of the fear undocumented immigrants live in every day.
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DACA recipients worry their protection from deportation won’t last another Trump term
Uncertainty is nothing new for DACA recipients. As many matured from school age to adulthood, they have witnessed a barrage of legal threats to the program. Reyna Montoya was 10 when she and her family fled violence in Tijuana and illegally immigrated to the U.S. Growing up in Arizona, she worried even a minor traffic violation…
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Arizona’s new anti-immigration law reignites decade-old fears of racial profiling
Prop 314 serves as a painful reminder to those who lived through the state’s “show me your papers” era of unchecked aggression against immigrant families.
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Arizonans OK proposition expanding local police power, grants judges deportation power
Immigrants’ rights groups say the language of Proposition 314 misled voters to think it would more directly address the fentanyl crisis.
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At Arizona rally, Trump calls for adding 10,000 Border Patrol agents after derailing a bipartisan border bill
At an Arizona rally, former President Donald Trump proposed hiring 10,000 additional Border Patrol agents, after he derailed a bipartisan bill earlier this year that included funding for more border personnel.
