Effort to punish human smugglers could end up criminalizing undocumented parents

By Gloria Gomez/UA Don Bolles Fellow/AZ Mirror PHOENIX — Republican proposals seeking to criminalize anyone transporting or illegally immigrating with undocumented minors are moving unimpeded through the legislature.  A bill conflating child sex crimes and smuggling elicited outrage from Democratic legislators during a Thursday hearing, who said that packaging the two issues in one bill…

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Nativist Republicans call on Ducey to militarize the border to stop an ‘invasion’

By Gloria Gomez/UA Don Bolles Fellow PHOENIX — A nativist former top Trump White House official on Wednesday exhorted Gov. Doug Ducey to use Arizona’s National Guard to turn immigrants back at the border.   Ken Cuccinelli, a top United States Citizenship and Immigration Services official in Donald Trump’s administration, said Ducey has the constitutional ability…

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Where dreams collide: Casa de la Esperanza Center

By Julia Blumberg/El Inde The Tucson Samaritans has been providing humanitarian aid in the desert since 2002. Volunteers of this organization try to go out daily to provide water, food, or medical assistance to migrants. Salvavision, founded in 2016, has been doing the same. This story is about how the paths of these two service…

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Tablas de libertad (Freedom Decks)

Por Marery Ruiz Barraza / El Inde The 2020 Summer Olympics debuted its first skateboarding competition. Although prominent figures competed during the Olympics, the Mexican border town of San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora homes a group of skaters who recall their journey to get a skatepark, be accepted by the community, and obtain sponsors, like…

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