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Stories by Rachel Beth Banks
Posted Jul 12, 2018, 10:01 am
Rachel Beth Banks
/Cronkite News
Gov. Doug Ducey, in an event staged for campaign cameras, said Wednesday that Arizona will spend $2.9 million in fiscal 2019 on the multiagency "Arizona Border Strike Force" effort to stop drug trafficking and human smuggling at the border.... Read more»
Posted Jul 6, 2018, 5:27 pm
Rachel Beth Banks
/Cronkite News
U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva on Friday toured a Southwest Key facility in Tucson where he reiterated disapproval of the policies that have dozens of migrant children locked away from their parents and out of public view, with some of the detainees as young as 5.... Read more»
Posted Jul 6, 2018, 4:30 pm
Rachel Beth Banks
/Cronkite News
Lack of information – and plenty of bad information – has led to heartache and confusion when family members search for loved ones who are in custody, immigration attorney Rekha Nair says.... Read more»