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Evander: Will law have an effect?

3/21/2024
There is a lot of angst in the news about Texas’s SB 4 law that would allow law enforcers in Texas to arrest suspected migrants on a misdemeanor charge if they are in the U.S. illegally.

Republicans to attempt to resend recently vetoed …

3/11/2024
PHOENIX — Refusing to take “no” for an answer, Republican legislators are going to resend the same border law enforcement bill back to Gov. Katie Hobbs that she vetoed just a week ago.

Arizona border crossing with Mexico to reopen

1/3/2024
 A border crossing on the most direct route from Phoenix to the nearest beaches will reopen Thursday, authorities said, one month after it closed in response to a large migrant influx. U.S. …

Patterson: The high cost of unlimited illegal …

12/22/2023
Governor Katie Hobbs has had a change of heart over the immigration crisis on Arizona’s southern border.

Hobbs orders National Guard soldiers placed near — …

12/16/2023
PHOENIX — Gov. Katie Hobbs on Friday ordered National Guard soldiers to be placed near — but not on — the border, less than a month after Major Gen. Kerry Muehlenbeck, who heads the Guard, told lawmakers the ones who had previously been there weren’t needed.

Hobbs worries Lukeville border crossing closure could …

12/4/2023
PHOENIX — Gov. Katie Hobbs said Monday she worries that the closure of the border crossing at Lukeville could spread.

Biden administration reverses course, resumes border …

10/7/2023
The Biden administration reversed course Thursday and said it would resume border wall construction, citing an “acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers” at the southern border to handle record-breaking numbers of immigrants.

Clure: Mexican tobacco cartels seek to gain from …

9/25/2023
Despite record-high temperatures, illegal crossings on the Southern border spiked in July, particularly in Arizona where the Tucson sector saw 40,000 arrests, the highest one-month total in 15 years.

Sun City West residents visits the border

9/22/2023
A Sun City West resident visited the southern border and will present to the community in an upcoming event.

Yuma official says cost of caring for migrants ‘not …

9/21/2023
Yuma County cannot continue to bear the cost of caring for immigrants that are flooding across the border without help from the federal government, a county official testified Wednesday.

Migrant deaths climbed with temperatures in July; …

9/4/2023
Migrant deaths in the Arizona desert spiked in July, when the remains of 42 undocumented individuals were found, the most for that month in more than a decade, advocates and medical officials said.

Federal government ready to drop lawsuit with Arizona …

8/28/2023
PHOENIX — The federal government is finally ready to drop its lawsuit against the state over the storage containers it contends were erected illegally last year on Forest Service land by Gov. Doug Ducey.