Southwest Border

U.S. Attorney Ryan Ellison says the two men were convicted of violating Title 50 and Title 18. Both are new charges related to trespassing on Department of Defense or military property.

Arizona’s Democratic attorney general has now joined with Republican legislative leaders in a bid to quash a legal challenge to Proposition 314, which allows state and local police to arrest those who are not citizens who enter the country at other than a port of entry.

In 2020, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced that his state would be the first to build its own border wall. But, several years and more than $3 billion into the project, the wall barely exists.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says the fentanyl was confiscated over the course of three separate seizures over the course of one month.

Fisher Sand & Gravel will get roughly $309 million to wall off some 27 miles of the San Rafael Valley. It’s a biodiversity hotspot that houses two international rivers and cross-border species like the jaguar.

The 287g agreements are generally made between ICE and local law enforcement — like sheriff’s offices. And it allows local entities to take part in immigration enforcement, either in jails or while serving warrants.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem issued waivers to fast-track 36 miles of new border wall in Arizona and New Mexico. It comes just a few months after a similar waiver to streamline construction in California.

The measure — brought by Pima County Supervisor Jen Allen — says that since the '90s, ongoing militarization along the U.S.-Mexico border has resulted in thousands of migrant deaths, increased racial profiling in the Tohono O’odham Nation and the degradation of sacred sites and biodiversity.

There have been a number of legal challenges to the Trump administration’s deportation policies and concerns about what happens to the children of migrants who are kicked out of the country.

The New World Screwworm was first detected in a cow in southern Mexico in November. Since then, officials from the U.S. and Mexico have worked to contain the deadly fly larvae.