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House OKs bill on state guard
The Arizona House has approved a bill that would give the governor more authority to use a state military force aside from the National Guard.
Kyl, McCain, Flake float border security bill
Arizona U.S. Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl have introduced legislation that would mandate 6,000 troops on the Mexican border, 5,000 more Border Patrol agents by 2016 and hundreds of millions in additional spending.
Border agents find smuggling tunnel in Nogales
U.S. Border Patrol agents say they have discovered a partially completed smuggling tunnel west of the border crossing in Nogales.
Students to erect mock border wall on campus Monday
Students at the University of Arizona are planning to erect the largest mock border wall in the country in protest of border enforcement policies in Arizona and nationwide.
National Guard leaving border in June
National Guard troops set up along the Arizona border will leave as planned the second week of June. Arizona National Guard Adjutant General Hugo Salazar says the mission along the southwestern border has gone well and troops helped the Department of Homeland Security watch the border while gathering intelligence against criminal cartels.
Unfinished border tunnel found in Arizona city
U.S. Border Patrol agents and Mexican law enforcement discovered an unfinished smuggling tunnel this week in the Arizona border city of Nogales.
Tucson jury sentences border activist to death
An Arizona jury has sentenced a border activist to death in the 2009 murder of a young girl and her father.
Border mayors ask Pinal sheriff to tone it down
The mayors of three Arizona border cities are asking Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu to tone down his comments about border security problems.
Top immigration officials to speak in Phoenix
Two of the nation's top immigration officials are set to speak Wednesday at a border security conference being held in Phoenix.
Closings set in border group leader’s murder trial
Attorneys are expected to give closing arguments Thursday in the murder case against an anti-illegal immigrant group leader who is accused of gunning down a 9-year-old girl and her father in what prosecutors say was an attempt to steal drug money to fund border operations.
White House says no to emergency AK-47 regulation
The U.S. agency that monitors gun sales has suffered a setback in its effort to increase scrutiny of the bulk sale of high-powered assault rifles in border state gun shops that are a chief source of weapons smuggling into Mexico.
DOJ denies border shootout claim
The U.S. Justice Department denied a claim made to lawmakers that two guns sold in purchases sanctioned by federal firearms agents were later used in a shootout that left a Border Patrol agent dead near the Arizona-Mexico border.
