The Biden administration’s asylum rule at the border is here to stay for now after an appeals court ruled in favor of the government’s request to put a lower court ruling on hold.

Arizona's Raúl Grijalva and other Democratic lawmakers in Washington say the Biden administration is failing to provide access to legal counsel for asylum seekers held in Customs and Border Protection custody.

A bill introduced this week by Congressman Raúl Grijalva and other lawmakers would strengthen federal protections for workers exposed to extreme heat.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has a field office in Phoenix, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection is assigned to southern Arizona. Congress’ watchdog wants the Homeland Security secretary to create ways for submitting and analyzing data on when agents working for those agencies use violence against people.

The Intercept has published images taken by one of its staff photographers. They show migrants being detained in chain-link pens with little or no shade at the Ajo Border Patrol Station in southern Arizona.
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Lawmakers in Washington have re-introduced the Afghan Adjustment Act. A bipartisan coalition of U.S. Senators and Representatives — including three Arizona congressmen — announced the re-introduction this month.

Experts say the recent kidnapping and killing of three police officers — all brothers — in southern Sonora is part of a bigger problem within the state’s municipal police forces.

It's been two months this week since Title 42 came to an end. The pandemic-era protocol made it nearly impossible to walk up to a port of entry and ask for asylum — despite laws that require it.

Cases of the mosquito-borne illness dengue fever spiked in Sonora last year. Officials are taking precautions to keep the virus from spreading this monsoon season.