Fronteras Desk News
A new report from Syracuse University research group Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC, shows a significant rise in a type of lawsuit generally filed by immigrants whose applications for things like visas and work permits on stuck in long backlogs at USCIS.
May. 18, 2023
On a windy day in late April, with dust blowing across an arena on the San Carlos Reservation east of Globe, eight young men, all members of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, are gathered around several horses and a trailer workshop.
May. 18, 2023
A case that could end the Obama-era DACA program is headed back to court next month. The program has given hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as kids protection from deportation and a work permit.
May. 18, 2023
Even before the end of Title 42, tens of thousands of migrants came right here to Phoenix — to a place called the Welcome Center. The Show took tour as uncertainty reigned about what would come next and who would be able to make it here going forward.
May. 18, 2023
The pilot program uses satellite technology, not cellular, to track crews in real-time.
May. 17, 2023
Gov. Katie Hobbs says more than 100 Medicaid service providers have defrauded the state out of hundreds of millions of dollars. The behavioral health residential and outpatient treatment service providers targeted Native Americans, making false promises of food, treatment and housing.
May. 16, 2023
PFAS water contamination is in the national spotlight. In Tucson, it's the latest in a longer legacy
This year, the EPA proposed formal limits on certain types of PFAS, a group of human-made chemicals that have been linked to cancer and other health issues. The chemicals have been found in groundwater in places across the U.S., including Tucson. But the city is no stranger to water contamination — or the effort to confront it.
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May. 16, 2023
University scientists want to revegetate areas in northern Arizona decimated by last year’s fires and flooding, and they’re asking the public to help.
May. 15, 2023
A national monument declaration would forever ban mining on more than 1,100,000 acres of land around the national park.
May. 15, 2023
The Show spoke with Laura Crossey, Ph.D., a professor at the University of New Mexico who specializes in groundwater research, about the project, and the state of the Grand Canyon’s water supply.
May. 15, 2023
Title 42 came to an end on Friday after more than three years. In Nogales, it was a silent end to a policy that has transformed asylum access.
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May. 14, 2023
Mexican officials Friday pushed back on what they call racism and ignorance among some U.S. lawmakers.
May. 12, 2023
Efforts to create a large, urban park in Hermosillo are moving forward, with state leaders securing the purchase of an additional 420 acres of land for the project.
May. 12, 2023
At the Nogales port of entry on Thursday, those years were paved by protests against the policy — like in 2021, when migrants stood in line for hours with other travelers, vaccine cards in hand, only to be turned away
May. 12, 2023
Mexico’s immigration agency says it is temporarily closing 33 migrant detention centers throughout the country after a fire killed 40 migrants in government custody in March.
May. 11, 2023
On Wednesday, a team of experts embarked on an expedition to spot the last few vaquita porpoises living in Mexico’s Upper Gulf of California.
May. 11, 2023
A Flagstaff judge has dismissed a restraining order that state Sen. Wendy Rogers obtained against Arizona Capitol Times reporter Camryn Sanchez. The judge decreed investigative journalism a legitimate purpose.
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May. 10, 2023
Title 42 expulsions are ending. But Mexico has agreed to continue accepting migrants from Central America, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela being sent back from the U.S. Many worry that and other policies will continue putting migrants at risk.
May. 10, 2023
The new rule, published to the Federal Register this morning, requires asylum seekers to ask for protection in a different country before doing so in the U.S., or use the CBP One app to request an appointment at a U.S. port of entry.
May. 10, 2023
The pandemic-era protocol Title 42, which restricts asylum at the border, is coming to an end this week after more than three years.
May. 10, 2023
