Alisa Reznick
Senior Field Correspondent - TucsonAlisa Reznick is a senior field correspondent covering stories across southern Arizona and the borderlands for the Tucson bureau of KJZZ's Fronteras Desk.
Prior to joining KJZZ, she covered border and immigration at Arizona Public Media, where she was awarded a regional Edward R. Murrow Award for her coverage of Indigenous-led protests against border wall construction.
Reznick started her career working in bilingual newsrooms and as a freelance journalist in Amman, Jordan. Her reporting on migration, refugees and human rights has appeared on PRX’s The World, Al Jazeera and Nova PBS, among others. As a recipient of the International Labour Organization's FAIRWAY Reporting Fellowship, she spent six months reporting on labor migration issues across Arab States.
Originally from Flagstaff, she likes climbing, being outdoors and Pluto.
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The Department of Justice is awarding a $1.5 million grant to the program to expand the use of DNA testing. Program heads say this cutting-edge but costly technology will allow them to look more deeply into cases and address a growing backlog of cases more quickly. -
Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officials say they’ve made headway on a processing backlog that reached a high point in 2020. -
Azul Navarrete-Valera of the Tucson Native Youth Council said they've received hundreds of letters supporting the change from Christopher Columbus Park. -
Preliminary numbers reported by the AP show Border Patrol agents made 46,700 arrests in November. It marks a more than 80% decrease from a spike in arrests border-wide last December — including as many as 19,000 a week in the Tucson Sector. -
As conservationists expect more border barriers to come during a second Trump presidency, a new study looks at how animals that cross the border have fared so far. -
Conservation groups are asking the Arizona Game and Fish Commission to ban the use of dog packs for hunting big game. -
Data from the research group TRAC shows there are more than 3.7 million pending cases in immigration court. That’s despite a record number of cases being closed this past year. -
More than 200,000 migrants have been returned to Mexico or their home countries since June under the Biden administration’s border restrictions. That’s according to new data released by Customs and Border Protection. -
Arizona voters passed Proposition 314 by a wide margin this month — giving local police the authority to carry out immigration-related arrests. But what happens next is more murky. -
Dozens of rights groups are asking the Biden administration to take steps to curb immigration detention infrastructure before President-elect Donald Trump takes office again in January.
