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AJO – It was a simple message scrawled into a basalt rock lying near-empty cans of beans and jugs of water that volunteers had left deep in the Sonoran Desert for undocumented immigrants passing through: “Gracias.” But to Mikal Jakubal, who, as a volunteer with the Ajo Samaritans, had been making weekly trips into the backcountry to stock water drop locations, the note was affirmation that the group’s efforts were appreciated. “For the most part, we will never hear from the people who use this,” Jakubal said. “We don’t know what it was like getting to t...

Advertisement: “You can’t even describe what we are doing as a Band-Aid on a gushing wound,” Jakubal said. He said a long history of U.S. policies in Latin America has contributed to the reasons migrants are risking their lives to trek for days through harsh terrain in hopes of finding better lives in the U.S. In other words, Jakubal said, “what’s going on at the border now is like a symptom on top of a symptom on top of a symptom of the deeper problem.” A shift in policy Doug Ruopp, a veteran volunteer with the migrant ...

Latest coronavirus headlines from Tucson, Pima County and across Arizona: Pima County Morgue At Capacity, Brings In Refrigerated Trucks; Pima County Opens Registration For Phase 1B; Past TUSD Board President Michael Hicks Dies Of Coronavirus; Coronavirus Outbreak Closes Pima County Attorney's Office

As Maricopa County and others move into Phase 1B of vaccine distribution here, more Arizonans are able to schedule COVID-19 appointments to get their shots. In the Valley, the state Department of Health Services has vaccinated more than 12,500 people at its first mass vaccination site at State Farm Stadium in Glendale. Health department director Dr. Cara Christ says the site should be able to give about 6,000 shots per day. “As we get more of a supply of vaccine and we can ensure that we would be able to provide it here at State Farm, we actually have the capacity — as we go — to pot...

Donald J. Trump made history on Wednesday as the first president to be impeached twice. After four years — and several decades – of saying whatever he wants, it will be a matter of speech that lands the final blow. He is charged with incitement of insurrection for spurring on the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The charge of “incitement” has been deployed many times in the past, often directed at agendas far different from Trump’s. On Sept. 12, 1918, Eugene V. Debs, the socialist presidential candidate, was convicted of attempting to incite subordination to the America...