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Posted Jun 15, 2022, 4:31 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
With all the hallmarks of an early campaign event, former Vice President Mike Pence held a press conference near Montezuma Pass just north from a section of Southern Arizona border wall left unfinished by the Biden administration. ... Read more»
Posted Jun 23, 2021, 1:18 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
The Biden administration has pushed out the chief of the Border Patrol, Rodney Scott, telling a long-term proponent of the border wall, and one of a few remaining Trump-era appointees, to leave the agency.
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Posted May 20, 2021, 7:22 am
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Facing racist, sexist, or otherwise offensive social media activity from their employees, senior leaders with U.S. Customs and Border Protection took no action on their own to prevent further misconduct, according to a report published Monday by a federal watchdog.... Read more»
Posted Jan 12, 2021, 11:40 am
Jeremy Schwartz
/Propublica/The Texas Tribune
The trip comes in the midst of planned impeachment proceedings following a violent week at the U.S. Capitol and a week after Department of Homeland Security officials touted the “historic” completion of 450 miles of border fencing during the Trump administration.... Read more»
Updated Jan 11, 2021, 6:10 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Recent court rulings over the validity of Chad Wolf's tenure as the head of Homeland Security, including a series of policies designed to clamp down on asylum along the U.S.-Mexico border, have forced the acting secretary to resign. ... Read more»
Posted Aug 12, 2020, 3:29 pm
Dara Lind & Lomi Kriel/Propublica/The Texas Tribune
Since March, the Trump administration has pushed thousands of migrant children back to their home countries without legal screenings or protection, citing the risk that they could be carrying COVID-19 into the United States.... Read more»
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Posted May 31, 2020, 6:44 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Tucson police will begin enforcing a curfew as part of a statewide order, issued by Gov. Ducey on Sunday, as protests over the death of George Floyd while in the hands of police continued across the country, including confrontations in Arizona.
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Posted Apr 29, 2020, 11:06 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said that a 31-year-old man from India is the first person to test positive for COVID-19 in the agency's custody after he crossed into the U.S. near Calexico, Calif. last week. ... Read more»
Posted Jan 13, 2020, 1:21 pm
Robert Moore
/Special to ProPublica
Video contradicted the Border Patrol’s account of 16-year-old Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez’s death. Now, House Democrats are pressuring the agency to explain why six migrant children died under its care in less than a year.... Read more»
Posted Jan 2, 2020, 5:36 pm
Harrison Mantas
/Cronkite News
The Trump administration waived environmental and other regulations on nearly one-quarter of Arizona’s border with Mexico last year to ease the way for border wall construction, a review of government documents shows.... Read more»
Posted Dec 12, 2019, 8:42 am
Julian Aguilar
/The Texas Tribune
The State Department has issued warnings advising against travel to Mexican border states and the president has considered labeling cartels as terrorist organizations. But Trump officials continue to downplay the violence in cities where "remain in Mexico" is in place. ... Read more»
Posted Nov 15, 2019, 11:27 am
Megan Boyanton
/Cronkite News
For the first time in at least a year, more adult immigrants were apprehended at the southern border than families, according to October apprehension numbers released Thursday by Customs and Border Protection.... Read more»
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Posted Oct 8, 2019, 5:21 pm
Brandi Buchman
/Courthouse News
New statistics reported Tuesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection show that roughly 1 million migrants have been detained at the southern border in the last year, the most in over a decade.... Read more»
Posted Oct 7, 2019, 10:11 am
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
A Border Patrol agent died Sunday after being found unresponsive in Southern Arizona, officials said. Authorities said they have ruled out foul play in the death of Agent Robert Hotten, 44.... Read more»
Posted Sep 10, 2019, 6:25 pm
Harrison Mantas
/Cronkite News
Border apprehensions have been cut by half, but those numbers are still the highest for may in five years.... Read more»
Posted Jul 31, 2019, 12:01 pm
Julian Paras
/Cronkite News
With border apprehensions at their highest level in a decade, all sides at a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing Tuesday agreed that the situation at immigrant detention facilities has reached crisis levels.... Read more»