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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As the New York Times reports, more than 100 of the roughly 750 immigration judges have been dismissed. About 140 permanent and temporary judges have been appointed in the wake of those firings — including former DHS prosecutors. -
Mexican gray wolves are one of the smallest wolf species in the world and among the most endangered. The animal’s habitat once spanned the mountains of central Mexico, up to southeastern Arizona, southern New Mexico and southwest Texas.
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Mayor Regina Romero and the City Council set out to draft the proposal last year — after water needs from the Project Blue data center project generated intense public backlash. -
Mayor Regina Romero and City Council members asked city officials to put together a draft amendment after voting to block Project Blue last year. That’s the data center proposed for a 290-acre stretch of Tucson’s southeast side that would have used millions of gallons of city water. -
The Biden-era CBP One program allowed asylum seekers to apply for a fixed number of appointments with immigration officers at a handful of border ports of entry — including the Nogales crossing. -
It’s the latest in a legal battle surrounding an issue that has defined the second Trump administration, and it centers on the 14th Amendment, which states anyone born in the U.S. is a citizen. -
It's the final ruling in a case that began last year, when the Trump administration announced plans to build a 30-foot steel bollard wall along some 27-miles of San Rafael Valley and waived a host of laws to speed-up construction. -
The brief, filed this month in Pima County Superior Court, is the latest legal action to stem from a request the ACLU’s state chapter made last summer, asking for copies of incident reports in which sheriff’s deputies called or otherwise interacted with ICE and Border Patrol. -
Local officials moved to set up regulations last year — after a massive data center called Project Blue proposed for Tucson’s southeast side was asking to use millions of gallons of city water. Tucson’s mayor and council voted to reject that plan, and introduce specific policies in its wake. -
Grijalva introduced the newly dubbed Environmental Justice Caucus this week alongside Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Summer Lee.
