Fronteras Desk News
PHOENIX - Department of Homeland Security employees are preparing for a possible shut down of their agency. It’s due to a partisan fight over the president’s executive actions on immigration.
Feb. 25, 2015
A federal district judge in Washington D.C. issued an injunction Friday that prevents the Department of Homeland Security from detaining immigrant families on the basis that it deters future illegal border crossings.
Feb. 25, 2015
The decline in the price of crude oil is exacerbating an existing problem; theft of crude oil, tanks, pumps and tools from the nation's highest producing oilfield, the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico. And it turns out that in at least one cases, stolen material was smuggled to northern Mexico.
Feb. 25, 2015
A helicopter airlifted 20 Northern Arizona University students and staff who were stranded in snow near the North Rim of the Grand Canyon Tuesday afternoon.
Feb. 24, 2015
Federal and local law enforcement officers discovered a cross-border, underground drug smuggling tunnel in Naco, Arizona, on Tuesday. Agents were alerted to the tunnel after a truck was found carrying more than two tons of marijuana outside of Bisbee.
Feb. 24, 2015
Almost 70 percent of Navajo children have untreated tooth decay, according to a recent University of Colorado study. That’s three times higher than the national average. The study blames a lack of access, saying there aren’t enough dentists for the largest tribe in the country.
Feb. 24, 2015
The federal government has taken the first step in its efforts to reverse a Texas judge’s ruling that blocked the president’s executive actions on immigration. The Obama administration is asking the judge to put his ruling on hold while the case is appealed.
Feb. 23, 2015
A Texas border county is refusing to accept federally initiated cases at two U.S. Border Patrol internal checkpoints. This means federal prosecutors must decide which cases that were once prosecuted on the state level will now be litigated by the federal government.
Feb. 23, 2015
Arizona Superintendent Diane Douglas visited schools in Southern Arizona this week. She dropped in on a history class in Tucson with district superintendent H.T. Sanchez. This is the second time the two officials have met to discuss the district’s violation of a state law that bans ethnic studies.
Feb. 20, 2015
Moises Acosta founded an education center focused on teaching kids about the life cycle of the monarch butterfly. He's continued his efforts despite a threat against his work.
Feb. 19, 2015
America's growing love for avocados may be harming the fragile habitat of the monarch butterfly, whose winter home is in the forests of central Mexico.
Feb. 18, 2015
A federal judge in Texas has stalled President Barack Obama’s Executive Action on immigration. Some immigrant advocates in Arizona said they are hopeful the judge’s decision will quickly be appealed.
Feb. 17, 2015
This is the time of year when millions of monarch butterflies migrate south to the forests of central Mexico. They gather in high altitudes outside the city of Zitacuaro in the state of Michoacan.
Feb. 17, 2015
In 2006, an E. coli outbreak in California Spinach rocked the fresh produce industry. Nearly 200 people across the country got sick. Three died. Farmers in Arizona were paying close attention. Arizona, along with California, produces almost all of the nation’s leafy greens and so they both got to work developing a more stringent approach to food safety.
Feb. 17, 2015
A federal judge in Texas on Monday temporarily blocked President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration, giving a coalition of 26 states time to pursue a lawsuit that aims to permanently stop the orders.
Feb. 16, 2015
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The Flagstaff community will honor Kayla Mueller at a candlelight vigil Feb. 14 at Northern Arizona University, her alma mater. Mueller died while being held hostage by the self-declared Islamic State in Syria. The vigil will be held at the Campus Ministry Center, where Mueller was actively involved.
Feb. 13, 2015
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and four top leaders will face a civil contempt of court hearing in April for repeatedly violating a federal judge’s orders.
Feb. 12, 2015
ACLU affiliates in Arizona and San Diego filed a lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for failure to produce records of abuse of migrant children in the care of its agencies.
Feb. 12, 2015
A federal judge has ruled in a civil lawsuit that a former Border Patrol agent’s shooting of a Mexican man was unjustified. The judge ordered the federal government to pay the man almost half a million dollars in damages.
Feb. 11, 2015
On Wednesday, Arizona’s Senate Finance Committee heard arguments on a bill that would phase out desegregation funding in schools. The funding was put in place in the 1980s to ensure equal education opportunities for minority students.
Feb. 11, 2015
