The Department of Interior says it coordinated with several other federal agencies on a border security mission that resulted in apprehensions and federal charges.
Interior oversees federal land agencies including the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management, or the BLM.
This was a 10-day operation that ended Nov. 9 and was part of the so-called Operation Securing America’s Border Resources — an effort that has BLM rangers and special agents working alongside other law enforcement like Border Patrol.
The agency says officers made 48 apprehensions of people without legal status in the U.S., along with several traffic stops and drug seizures in the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area, southeast of Phoenix.
Twenty-one people have been referred for federal charges, according to the agency. A spokesperson directed questions about what happened to the other 27 arrested to the Department of Justice.
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In a weeklong series, KJZZ looks at Arizona’s connection to the Japanese internment policies that were instituted following Pearl Harbor, and how it ties into the broader story of racialized public policy. Gabriel Pietrorazio joined The Show for a closer look at the series. -
That includes more than 11,000 non-Mexican deportees, according to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. -
The Pinal County Attorney’s Office announced this week that it’s joining certain violent-crime task forces led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The same deal with the Phoenix Police Department was canceled more than a decade ago. -
Officials at the Department of Homeland Security have accused Arizona Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva of “faking outrage” over her protest at an ICE raid west of downtown Tucson last week. -
Long before World War II, the U.S. Army rounded up Native Americans onto reservations — drawing in their new boundaries. And in Arizona, the federal government once again looked to those lands for another minority population — Japanese Americans — also forcibly rounded up by the military after the Pearl Harbor bombing in 1941.
