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Listen to the story. A 7-year-old migrant girl from Honduras, left, walks with Fernanda Solis, 25, center, also of Honduras and an unidentified man as they approach a US Customs and Border Protection processing center to turn themselves in while seeking asylum moments after crossing the US-Mexico border in Mission, Texas, March 21, 2021. Credit: Share Day by day, Felicia Rangel-Samponaro is seeing more migrants arrive in Reynosa, a city in Mexico, just across from South Texas. Tents cro...

An area native and Worthington advocate shared their experiences.

Customs and Border Protection, the agency that oversees the Border Patrol, has carried out more than 630,000 expulsions in the past year. As The Intercept detailed in an investigation published last weekend, Border Patrol agents have used Title 42 as a basis to drop asylum-seekers in Mexican border towns in the middle of the night — a practice that’s been largely prohibited for years under agreements between the U.S. and Mexico. The agents have also relied on Title 42 to expel individuals a...

Arizona Attorney General files suit challenging Biden administration immigration policies Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has filed the lawsuit as the federal government sends money to Pima County to cover housing costs for asylum seekers. Author: Adriana Loya (12NEWS) Updated: 5:42 PM MST April 15, 2021 PHOENIX — Migrant encounters at Arizona’s U.S.-Mexico border increased 60 percent from February to March, causing the state’s attorney general to fi...

PHOENIX (AP) — A Latino civil rights organization has filed a lawsuit against Arizonas top prosecutor on behalf of nonprofit groups that say his efforts to block President Joe Bidens changes to past immigration policy are unlawful. The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund on Tuesday filed the lawsuit against Attorney General Mark Brnovich for the Arizona-based Puente Human Rights Movement, Chicanos Por La Causa and the Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project. The groups ...

Immigrant Groups Sue Trump Administration Over “Last Ditch” Rule Change arrow A 2018 protest in lower Manhattan against ICE, family separations and US border policies. M Stan Reaves/Shutterstock With just over a week to go before the end of the Trump Administration, immigration advocates filed a federal lawsuit in the Washington, D.C. district court against a Department of Justice rule they claim would create “devastating” new barriers to those with cases in immi...

Joy Baynes and Lauren Dasse  The Women’s Foundation of Southern Arizona has chosen two recipients for this year’s Laura Penny Community Impact Awards—Joy Baynes and Lauren Dasse. Baynes, a nurse-practitioner at El Rio Community Health Center, was recognized for her work in healthcare with an emphasis on at-risk youth and her dedication to women’s reproductive rights. She is responsible for developing El Rio’s Reproductive Health Access Project and when Baynes gives h...