Special thanks
to our supporters

  • NewsMatch
  • Ernie Pyle
  • Rocco's Little Chicago
  • Humberto Lopez — HSLopez Family Foundation
  • Lincoln Steffens
  • Sharon Bronson
  • Mark Kimble
  • Laurie Jurs
  • Peg Bowden
  • Laura Conover
  • Jeff Grubbs
  • & many more!

We rely on readers like you. Join them & contribute to the Sentinel today!

Hosting provider

Proud member of

Local Independent Online News Publishers Authentically Local Local First Arizona Institute for Nonprofit News
 1 2 >
DACA recipients and their supporters rallied at the Supreme Court ahead of the justices taking up the question of ending the program, November, 2019.

Advocates and DACA recipients across the country celebrated the ruling, which called the administration’s decision to end the program arbitrary and capricious. Read more»

Across the U.S., as many as 29,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients may be working in health care jobs that are on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19, according to one recent report. Thousands more work in teaching and food industries, the report claims.

An estimated 29,000 health care workers in the U.S. are undocumented, according to a recent report, but have remained in this country under the DACA program. A program that the Trump administration is trying to abolish. Read more»

The Trump administration issued a rule Monday that allows the government to deny green cards or visas to people who rely on public benefit programs, or if they might need such programs, including food stamps, Medicaid and housing subsidies, in the future. Read more»

A young man fills out forms to apply for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a program that protects nearly 53,000 Arizonans from deportation and gives permission to work for two years.

By refusing to hear the case, the Supreme Court sends it back to the lower court, leaving in place two nationwide injunctions keeping the Trump administration from ending DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Read more»

Melissa Garcia, 27, holds a sign reading 'We are here, and we will not go' during a demonstration in support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama-era program that was rescinded Tuesday by the Trump administration.

Furious with the cancellation of DACA, 150 people protested at Tucson City Hall on Tuesday, vowing to "resist" the Trump administration and push lawmakers to protect thousands from deportation. Read more»

Supporters for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals during a protest earlier this year in Tucson.

The Trump administration ordered an end Tuesday to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Obama action that shields about 788,000 people from deportation, and pushed Congress to replace the policy with a legislative fix before March 5, 2018. Read more»

Undocumented children ride a bus entering the Nogales Border Patrol Station in 2014.

Buried deep in the Trump administration’s plans to round up undocumented immigrants is a provision certain to enrage Mexico — new authority for federal agents to deport immigrants caught crossing the southern border to Mexico, regardless of where they are from. Read more»

Advocates reviewing one of the Border Patrol's holding cells at the Border Patrol station in Tucson.

A federal judge in Tucson unsealed hundreds of pages of documents and photos this week as part of a class-action lawsuit over the treatment of detainees held by Border Patrol agents in the Tucson Sector. Read more»

Hundreds gathered in front of the U.S. Supreme Court to show their support for President Obama’s immigration executive action as the Court hears oral arguments on the action in Washington, D.C., on April 18, 2016.

The Obama administration has asked a Brownsville-based judge to rethink an order that requires the federal government to turn over the private information of thousands of undocumented immigrants. Read more»

Immigration advocates hailed a federal appeals court ruling that reaffirmed other courts’ findings that Arizona cannot deny driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants who qualify for deferred deportation. Read more»

Dozens of unaccompanied minors held at the U.S. Border Patrol's Nogales Processing Center on June 14, 2014, in Nogales as part of the agency's response to the influx of thousands of children into the United States through the Rio Grande Valley.

A federal judge lambasted the agency for its handling of evidence, including destroying digital video that a coalition of immigration rights groups said shows that the agency regularly breaks its own policies regarding the treatment of immigrants held in Southern Arizona BP stations. Read more»

Thousands of marchers protested Arizona's then-new immigration law in Tucson on May Day in 2010.

A federal judge upheld the "papers, please" provision of Arizona's controversial immigration law, rejecting claims that it discriminates against Hispanics. But Judge Susan Bolton issued a permanent injunction blocking part of the law that barred stopping a vehicle to hire day laborers. Read more»

Dozens of unaccompanied minors held at the U.S. Border Patrol's Nogales Processing Center on June 14, 2014, in Nogales as part of the agency's response to the influx of thousands of children into the United States through the Rio Grande Valley.

During a six-month period in 2013, people detained by the Border Patrol near Tucson were regularly held more than 24 hours in temporary facilities, breaking the agency's own policies and subjecting immigrants to freezing, overcrowded cells without access to food, water, medical care and legal council, according to a new federal class-action lawsuit. Read more»

President Obama speaks to a crowd at the Austin Music Hall on July 17, 2012.

As Republican lawmakers seek to rein in the president's executive authority, proponents of immigration reform are urging the president to keep using it to push through immigration changes. Read more»

Eliot Spitzer falsely claimed that allowing immigrants living in the United States illegally to obtain driver’s licenses is now the “law of the land.” Forty states, including New York, do not currently issue driver’s licenses to immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally. It is true, however, that the policy has been spreading rapidly in recent months. Read more»

 1 2 >