Immigration

Activists have spent the last 70 days camped around and inside a cottonwood tree right along the border in the tiny town of Lochiel. The tree was the last of an old grove estimated to be up to 250 years old.

The relationship between Pinal County Attorney Brad Miller and the Board of Supervisors has been rocky since a legal fight started over Miller unilaterally signing up to work with ICE.

The National Park Service has denied an activist group’s request to place water stations along the Arizona-Mexico border — marking the first time their permit has been denied in more than two decades.

The Utah-based Management & Training Corporation, or MTC, operates several prisons and ICE facilities around the U.S. This Marana site is an old state prison that was run by MTC before Arizona severed that contract and shut it down in 2023.

The association says immigrant workers account for more than 25% of the construction workforce. And the impact of immigration enforcement and workplace raids is felt across the board — with some markets reporting even workers with legal status not showing up due to ICE fears.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has poured billions into expanding detention capacity under the second Trump administration, but a new watchdog report shows tens of millions of it were wasted.

Rights groups sued the Trump administration last year to stop what are known as third country removals — a process where immigrants are sent to a country they’re not from and have no ties to, often with little to no warning.

The letter says Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has been unwilling to publicly affirm ICE and Border Patrol won't be sent to voting polls — despite that being against federal law.

The U.S. Supreme Court revived a voting database that previously identified eligible voters as non-citizens. Could it be used in Arizona this close to the election?

As a result, the GAO says millions in taxpayer funds were wasted. Under one initiative, ICE spent over a billion dollars purchasing 11 warehouses around the country to create new holding facilities — including in Surprise.