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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 crowd a plaza in Reynosa. People sleep in a large gazebo. “Once you cross the bridge into Reynosa, an...

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 and families through remote ports that were previously not used for removals, into communities domina...

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 file a federal lawsuit challenging President Biden’s immigration policy, and the Federal Emergency M...

PHOENIX (AP) — A Latino civil rights organization has filed a lawsuit against Arizona's top prosecutor on behalf of nonprofit groups that say his efforts to block President Joe Biden's 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 provide services to immigrants. The Tuesday filing seeks to void an agreement Brnovich signed with...