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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County staff has been tasked with compiling bi-weekly updates about the state of federal funding set aside or already spent for projects across 20 different county departments. -
Humanitarian parole programs have been used by presidential administrations for decades to streamline temporary U.S. entry for immigrants facing war or other challenges in their home countries. -
A crowd of former staffers, local families and other community members joined Raúl Grijalva's family just before sundown outside the El Pueblo Neighborhood Center, in Tucson’s south side, on Sunday. -
An executive order signed by President Trump over the weekend greenlit deportation flights carrying Venezuelan nationals accused without evidence of having gang ties. -
The Trump administration has restarted the use of immigration detention for children and families after a more than three year freeze on the practice. Two Texas facilities previously used for that purpose are slated are reopening and immigrant rights experts say some families have already been detained. -
Last November, a Biden administration rule went into effect that allowed DACA recipients to access the health care marketplace for the first time since it was created in 2010. -
City leaders who crafted the measure estimated Prop. 414 would have generated some $80 million a year for the next 10 years. About a third of that was slated to pay for equipment and technology for police and other first responders — including patrol cars and a police plane. The other portion would go toward building new and enhancing existing affordable housing, along with other community resilience programs. -
The case was filed by refugees, sponsors and resettlement agencies in response to a January executive order and memo that blocked all refugee resettlement and funding. In a ruling late February, a federal judge ordered the government to restart both resettlement efforts and funding. -
This month, the Trump administration announced the resurrection of immigration detention centers that will hold families — a practice that had ended under former President Joe Biden. -
Members of the public have 60 days to comment on a proposal from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, or USCIS, that would require immigrants applying for various immigration benefits to provide their social media handles to the agency.
