Alisa Reznick
Senior Field Correspondent - Tucson | [email protected]Alisa 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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Tucson Mayor Regina Romero and the council voted unanimously this week to direct the city attorney to draft an ordinance that would bar ICE from staging enforcement operations on city-owned property. It also aims to set up a policy for handling requests from the federal government to use city facilities. -
The portal’s homepage says members of the public should use the form to report potentially unlawful activity by federal personnel from agencies like ICE, Customs and Border Protection, and Homeland Security Investigations. -
It’s been a year this week since Trump reentered office and issued a slew of Day 1 executive orders on immigration, bringing into question everything from asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, to whether people born in the U.S. are guaranteed citizenship. -
Avelo was the only ICE subcontractor also offering commercial tickets to travelers. Earlier this month, the airline announced it would no longer be doing deportation flights for ICE. -
Four people have been wounded or killed in ICE shootings across the county this month — including US citizen Renee Good, who died in Minneapolis after an ICE agent shot into her car’s front window. -
In a press release this week, city officials say they’re closely monitoring the situation of other cities — where the Trump administration has sent National Guard troops without requests from local or state governments. -
Democratic members of Congress could be back in court this month after they say the Trump administration is again denying them immediate access to immigration detention facilities. -
The legislation comes after the death of Renee Nicole Good — a 37-year-old U.S. citizen who was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday. The Trump administration has said the agent was acting in self-defense, though eyewitnesses and video have raised questions about that account. -
Renee Nicole Good, 37, was killed Wednesday when an ICE agent fired shots into her vehicle during an immigration enforcement action in Minneapolis. -
Government data analyzed by the Cato Institute in September shows more than 14,000 federal officers from criminal law enforcement agencies — like the U.S. Marshall Service, Homeland Security Investigations and the Department of Defense — have been redirected to do ICE enforcement.
