As public attention has turned to immigration enforcement in the interior of the U.S., human rights advocates want to draw attention back to an ongoing, decades-long crisis: Migrating people are continuing to die in Tucson's backyard.
- Grace Trejo
The deportation case against Tucson DACA recipient Karla Toledo has been dropped — for now. Toledo made headlines last month when she was arrested at her home and detained at Eloy Detention Center. Mo Goldman, her attorney, said at a news conference Wednesday that the case was dismissed, but…
- Emily Bregel
The deportation case against a Tucson woman who was apprehended last month at her home has been terminated.
- Howard Fischer
A Tucson-based environmental group is accusing the Trump administration of moving at a snail's pace in determining whether a sesame-sized mollusk found only in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in southwest Arizona should be listed as endangered.
Advocates say ICE isn't equipped to handle mental health crises in detention, relying on solitary confinement — and even pepper spray — as quick fixes.
Rescue plan in works for tiny endangered turtle in path of second Arizona border wall- Henry Brean
For Star subscribers: Wildlife officials are planning an emergency rescue for an endangered species that could see its only U.S. habitat wiped out by construction of a second border wall across Southern Arizona.
One immigrant was sent to solitary confinement for refusing to self-deport. A teenager lost 20 pounds. One man attempted suicide. Experts say it's unconstitutional.
Karla Toledo remained in detention Friday morning at the Eloy Detention Center but was awaiting release after posting bond.
Karla Toledo, a Tucson woman in the DACA program for more than 10 years, is now detained at ICE's Eloy Detention Center and faces deportation.
ICE tracks how many immigrants it sends to solitary confinement each month, but the data is messy and incomplete, a Lee Enterprises analysis found.
Federal agents rushed into a Tucson home Monday morning and took Karla Toledo, 31, into custody as she was getting ready to leave for work, her family says.
The March death of a Haitian asylum seeker who was detained at Arizona's Florence Correctional Center was related to his severe, untreated dental problems, according to preliminary findings from the Maricopa County Medical Examiner's office.
For Star subscribers: Some ICE detainees in Arizona are being held for weeks in crowded ICE centers meant for stays of no more than 72 hours.
A Cuban asylum seeker detained at ICE's Eloy Detention Center is alive after attempting suicide at the end of April, two days after he said he was placed in solitary confinement as "punishment" for demanding medical care.
PHOENIX — A Pima County resolution directing employees not to cooperate with immigration officials does not violate state or federal laws, Attorney General Kris Mayes concludes.
A giant fish carved into the ground more than 1,000 years ago was bulldozed during construction of a second border wall in Arizona, according to new images of the damage.
A Cuban asylum seeker detained at Eloy Detention Center has been hospitalized without explanation after sending worrisome messages.
For Star subscribers: As border wall construction accelerates, ecologists are cataloging wildlife on both sides of the international boundary and tracking the movements of rare species like jaguar and ocelot in Southern Arizona.
A 1,000-year-old site along the Arizona-Mexico border in the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge was damaged and others could be too as a second wall is added to the border, tribal officials say.
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is asking a federal judge to block the U.S. government from converting a warehouse in the Phoenix-area city of Surprise to house up to 1,500 people detained on immigration violations, saying the plan is inappropriate and illegal.
A 41-year-old Tucson woman traveling with three children had 20 rifles, a rocket-powered grenade launcher tube and other weapons and parts stashed in her car as she crossed into Nogales, Sonora, federal authorities say.
Leaders of the Tohono O'odham Nation are looking at legal options to fight U.S. Customs and Border Protection's plans for not just one, but two 30-foot steel-bollard barriers along the Nation's southern boundary with Mexico, despite the tribe's decades of work with CBP on alternatives to a wall.
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PHOENIX — Republican lawmakers are advancing a proposal to make criminals out of those who warn others that they are in "imminent or ongoing'' threat of being arrested or picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or other law enforcement.
A map published by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security reveals plans to add a second border wall along much of the U.S.-Mexico border, includng nearly all of Arizona's southern boundary.
A confrontation between ICE agents and observers in South Tucson ended with pepper spray being deployed according to witnesses.
In the past year, federal agents in southwest Arizona issued more than 100 citations to legal immigrants under a 1952 provision enacted to track noncitizens, according to law enforcement records reviewed by AZCIR.
A state lawmaker wants Attorney General Kris Mayes to investigate cities, including Tucson, that refuse to allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement to operate on their property, which he contends is illegal.
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has assured the public his deputies don't collaborate with federal immigration authorities. But a recent court filing in an ongoing lawsuit highlights several incidents in which local deputies called Border Patrol after interacting with Spanish speakers who we…
PHOENIX — State lawmakers are moving to make it illegal for banks, credit unions and check-cashing services to do business with people who don't have legal immigration status.
Tomasito Fuentes Ponce, 41, was detained by immigration agents March 13 outside a convenience store shortly after dropping off his youngest son at school.