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Posted Mar 10, 2022, 5:47 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
A newly released report by the Southern Poverty Law Center details extremism in 2021 — and how elected officials like U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar helped white nationalists and hate groups move their views into the mainstream. ... Read more»
Posted Feb 4, 2022, 10:58 am
Gloria Gomez
/Don Bolles Fellow, University of Arizona
The Republican-controlled House passed a measure Thursday that would ban sexually explicit materials in K-12 classrooms across the state.... Read more»
Posted Dec 8, 2021, 6:28 am
Kimberly Silverio-Bautista
/Cronkite News
Buried in the $1.9 trillion Build Back Better Plan is $100 billion for immigration reform, money that critics say has no business being in the bill and that migration advocates say does not go nearly far enough. ... Read more»
Posted Sep 3, 2021, 7:36 am
Bianca Bruno
/Courthouse News
Legal nonprofit Al Otro Lado and 13 immigrants turned back from making asylum claims at ports of entry along the U.S.–Mexico border proved the "metering" policy violates rights enshrined in the Administrative Procedure Act and Constitution, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
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Posted Mar 11, 2020, 11:20 am
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
The Supreme Court said Wednesday that the Trump administration could continue the so-called "Migrant Protection Protocols" and return asylum-seekers to Mexico while the legal fight over the policy winds through the court system.
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Posted Mar 5, 2020, 6:29 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
The 9th Circuit again rejected the Trump administration's attempt to push asylum-seekers back to Mexico via a pair of programs that have been challenged by advocates. Judges denied the government's request to stay injunctions that block enforcement of the policies.... Read more»
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Posted Feb 28, 2020, 11:47 am
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
The 9th Circuit halted the Migrant Protection Protocols and blocked an "absurd" rule that would bar people who illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border from receiving asylum, handing the Trump administration a pair of defeats Friday.
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Posted Nov 18, 2019, 11:58 am
Wissam Melhem
/Cronkite News
Dozens of House Democrats renewed calls Friday for the Defense Department to investigate the legality of President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy thousands of active-duty and National Guard troops to the U.S-Mexico border.... Read more»
Posted Jul 30, 2019, 9:16 pm
Julian Paras
/Cronkite News
Immigration advocates are vowing to continue to fight the use of Defense Department funds for construction of a border wall, after the Supreme Court late Friday lifted an injunction on the funds transfer.... Read more»
Updated Apr 9, 2019, 2:18 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from implementing a plan to send asylum-seekers back to Mexico while their cases wind through the U.S. immigration system. ... Read more»
Posted Feb 14, 2019, 2:43 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Three civil rights groups filed a federal lawsuit Thursday challenging the Trump administration's plan to send asylum-seekers back to Mexico while their cases wind through the U.S. immigration system.
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Posted Dec 21, 2018, 1:01 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
The Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration's attempt to end-run a decision by a federal judge, and implement new rules barring asylum claims by anyone who entered the U.S. between border crossings.... Read more»
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Posted Dec 19, 2018, 9:00 am
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
In a pair of decisions Wednesday, two different courts, one in San Francisco and one in Washington, D.C., ruled against the Trump administration's attempts to block people from seeking asylum in separate but important cases.... Read more»
Posted Dec 12, 2018, 3:08 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Trump administration officials have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to OK a ban on asylum claims by people who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border without going through a crossing point.... Read more»
Posted Nov 21, 2018, 11:23 am
Vandana Ravikumar
/Cronkite News
The White House on Tuesday vowed to fight a federal judge’s ruling that temporarily blocked restrictions on asylum seekers, who administration officials said threaten to “incapacitate our already overwhelmed immigration system.”... Read more»
Posted Nov 20, 2018, 8:55 am
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
A federal judge blocked the Pres. Trump's plan to bar people who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border without going through a port of entry from applying for asylum, saying the ban "irreconcilably conflicts" with federal law and the "expressed intent of Congress."... Read more»