Southwest Border
Politicians, tribal leaders and the head of a local humanitarian group in Arizona's Yuma County called on a politically diverse delegation of senators from around the U.S. to pass immigration reform amid an increase in migrant arrivals that can overwhelm local resources.
Jan. 11, 2023
During her first State of the State address this week, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs told members of the press she wants Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to visit the Arizona-Sonora border.
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Jan. 10, 2023
Customs and Border Protection is set to begin construction this week on a project to close gaps in the U.S.-Mexico border wall built under former President Donald Trump in Yuma.
Jan. 9, 2023
Under a new plan, the U.S. government will be able to immediately expel migrants from Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua. It establishes a parole program for migrants from those countries that will mean some of them can get into the country legally.
Jan. 9, 2023
The Biden administration has announced a new immigration plan that expands the pandemic-era Title 42 policy, which sends migrants and asylum seekers who are caught crossing the border back into Mexico.
Jan. 6, 2023
President Joe Biden will visit Mexico next week for the first time as president to attend the North American Leaders’ Summit.
Jan. 6, 2023
Most of the conversation around the border in the news is about walls and policies, asylum seekers coming from distant lands, and cartels sneaking drugs north. But there's another group of border crossers: the ones who do it everyday.
Jan. 6, 2023
A cartel leader who escaped prison in northern Mexico on Sunday was killed by Mexican security forces Thursday.
Jan. 5, 2023
Contractors hired by the state of Arizona have started dismantling a makeshift border wall made of out shipping containers in Yuma and Cochise counties. Protesters who stopped work in Cochise County say they want to partner with the U.S. Forest Service to ensure the construction doesn't cause more harm.
Jan. 3, 2023
After months of scrutiny from environmentalists, immigration advocates and the U.S. government, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is taking down the shipping containers he had seemingly illegally put up.
Dec. 30, 2022
A former Border Patrol agent was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison on various corruption and weapons charges. Ramon Monreal-Rodriguez, a former Tucson-area agent, was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison and ordered to pay $151,000 in restitution to the U.S. Border Patrol.
Dec. 29, 2022
Mexico is extending the timeline for owners of illegally imported foreign cars to bring those vehicles into compliance.
Dec. 29, 2022
The Arizona Game and Fish Department has relocated six endangered Sonoran pronghorn antelope from Arizona to Sonora as part of a collaborative breeding program meant to rebuild a healthy population of the species.
Dec. 29, 2022
Hundreds of bird species live in or migrate to Sonora, Mexico. But while it attracts birders from abroad, few Sonorans have taken up the hobby. But some hope an annual bird counting event will help change that.
Dec. 25, 2022
Mexico’s transition to renewable energy is focused on Sonora - where major lithium and solar plants are planned. And leaders now say they have secured funding for those projects.
Dec. 22, 2022
Gov. Doug Ducey has agreed to remove all the shipping containers he has installed along the border. A press aide says the move comes as a deal was made with the Biden Administration.
Dec. 22, 2022
The Supreme Court has temporarily halted plans to end Title 42. The pandemic-era protocol was set to end by court order Dec. 21, but the high court siding with a coalition of more than a dozen GOP-led states asking for an emergency stay. A court is expected to rule on the future of the protocol later this week.
Dec. 19, 2022
The federal government is suing Arizona over a state-funded project to build a border wall of shipping containers on Forest Service land in Cochise County. But a grassroots coalition of activists shut down construction weeks ago.
Dec. 19, 2022
Sonora’s governor says recent arrests will reduce outbursts of violence that have wracked several cities in recent weeks.
Dec. 15, 2022
The controversial protocol is set to end on Dec. 21 after almost three years thanks to a federal court ruling in Washington, D.C., that found its use was "arbitrary and capricious." But the battle over its future continues.
Dec. 13, 2022
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