Tucson's Top Stories: January 20
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Tim Steller's column: Earmarks make comeback in Tucson and AZ projectsFor Star subscribers: Congress stopped the controversial process of "earmarks" for local projects in 2011. Now they're back, with safeguards, and showing up on Tucson's landscape.
As national media focuses on the U.S. border agents confronting a high volume of migrant arrivals between ports, Arizona stakeholders are calling for more resources for officers working within the nation's understaffed ports.
Their mother, finally allowed to return from Sonora, thanks the U.S. for "an opportunity once again to be here, in the promised land."
