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.
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.
Federal plans show the planned immigration detention center in Maran will hold up to 775 detainees.
Haitian asylum seeker was held in ICE detention in Arizona before dying, likely from complications of an untreated tooth infection, family says.
Haitian asylum seeker Emmanuel Damas, 56, died at a Scottsdale hospital March 2, while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, weeks after he began experiencing a painful tooth infection, the Arizona Daily Star reported Tuesday.
An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.
A man who fired shots at a Border Patrol helicopter during a chase south of Tucson in January has been indicted on suspicion of attempted murder and other federal charges, prosecutors say.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will move forward with plans to operate a detention facility in Marana, contract documents show.
After praying and weeping every day for months, Dayana Cosme Benitez said she’s overwhelmed by gratitude for those who supported her elderly mother while the woman was held in immigration detention for nine months in Eloy, Arizona.
After 9 months detained at an Arizona ICE detention facility, a Cuban grandmother and asylum seeker with dementia is free, pending the outcome of her deportation case.
Legislation approved by the Senate on a party-line vote this week would require any agency making an arrest in Arizona to immediately notify Immigration and Customs Enforcement to come to the location where the arrest is being made.
Rep. Adelita Grijalva visited with a detained asylum seeker with dementia, age 79, after learning about her from an Arizona Daily Star investigation.
Masked agents arrested a Tucson asylum seeker last month, only for the U.S. government to release her when faced with a legal challenge.
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Proposed legislation aims to penalize individuals who use social media or messaging apps to alert others of nearby enforcement actions. Critics argue the bill infringes on free speech, while supporters claim it's a necessary step for officer safety.
Family says 79-year-old detainee Julia Benitez’s dementia has worsened during months in Arizona ICE custody, as advocates warn more elderly immigrants are being held without humanitarian release.
Isa Maluenga Avila did everything by the book, yet she was still detained for weeks without explanation. Her journey highlights the critical constitutional backstop of habeas petitions in modern immigration enforcement.
No one in ICE detention is being held as punishment for a crime, a distinction often overlooked in discussions of immigrants’ conditions of confinement, advocates say.
Arizona Senate advances proposal to require hospitals receiving public funds to ask patients about legal status, igniting sharp debate over costs, privacy and access to care.
NOGALES — Department of Homeland Security officials had promised a "major border wall update" during DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's Wednesday press conference at the U.S.-Mexico border wall, east of Nogales, Arizona.
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