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Dec 14, 2022

Biden administration asks judge to allow removal of containers at border

The Biden administration is asking a federal judge to let it remove the hundreds of double-stacked storage containers Gov. Doug Ducey has placed along the border and then bill the state for the costs.

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Nov 29, 2022

High court to hear arguments over Biden’s deportation policy

The Supreme Court is taking up a dispute over a blocked Biden administration policy that would prioritize deportation of people in the country illegally who pose the greatest public safety risk.

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Nov 18, 2022

Environmental group wants to join legal battle to force Ducey to remove containers

A national environmental group wants to join the legal battle to force Gov. Doug Ducey to take his shipping containers off the international border.

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Oct 31, 2022

House Rules office concludes Fernandez’s comments don’t ‘constitute harassment’ 

House Democrats recently completed an investigation of harassment allegations from a male representative, finding no evidence to take any disciplinary action. Rep. Alma Hernandez, D-Tucson, filed a complaint in September alleging that Rep. Brian Fernandez, D-Yuma, had made disparaging comments about her to fellow lawmakers and lobbyists multiple times.  

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Oct 25, 2022

Southern border apprehensions hit record 2.4 million in fiscal 2022

Border officials encountered a record of almost 2.4 million migrants at the southern border in fiscal 2022, shattering the old record of 1.7 million set just a year earlier, according to numbers released late Friday by Customs and Border Protection.

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Oct 25, 2022

Ducey puts more containers along Mexican border

The state of Arizona has begun installing shipping containers along another section of the U.S.-Mexico border to fill gaps that aren't covered by a border wall.

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Oct 17, 2022

Feds want shipping containers removed from border

The federal government wants Arizona to take away the shipping containers the state lined up on federal land along the border near Yuma in August.

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Oct 10, 2022

Whetstone locals mixed on seeing border shipping containers

SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. (AP) — Some residents of Whetstone, just north of Sierra Vista, are not too keen that their community is being used as a staging area for shipping containers that were erected to serve as barriers at the Mexico border.

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Sep 23, 2022

Hispanic Heritage Month celebrates our country’s diversity 

What does Hispanic Heritage Month mean to me? As the son of immigrants, it means I get to live in a country that not only acknowledges but celebrates diversity.

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Sep 20, 2022

Water needed to farm in desert, ensure residents’ health, safety

Farming in the desert ensures the health, safety, and well-being of each and every person who relies on an affordable, abundant food supply.

Sep 19, 2022

Federal, local officials investigate plane crash that killed two people

Federal and local officials are investigating after two people died after a small plane crashed in the Arizona desert north of the U.S.-Mexico border and was engulfed in flames, authorities said.

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Sep 16, 2022

Arizona worries about access to Colorado River 

Due to a logjam in interstate negotiations for massive cuts in Colorado River water deliveries, farmers and urban users have no idea how much water use they'll be ordered to cut. 

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