Group defends, advocates for transgender detainees

  Karolina Lopez considers herself a woman.  Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents do not. Lopez is transgender. She immigrated to the United States to escape discrimination in her home country of Mexico, only to encounter further abuse in Arizona. She spent three years in the all-male ICE detention center in Eloy, Arizona. She remembers them…

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Border artist paints new tint on the fence

  Thick, rusty-brown steel plates loom 20-feet high over Ambos Nogales, signaling the physical and symbolic delineation between the United States and Mexico.  Ana Teresa Fernández wants to change that.  In October, she took to the streets with her tools of resistance, paint and a paint brush, to “erase the border” in Ambos Nogales. She…

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A pesar de los beneficios que ofrecen, las comunidades rurales batallan para atraer a profesionales médicos

En cuanto la atención primaria de salud en las comunidades rurales, Arizona carece de los profesionales médicos que se necesitan. No importa si las comunidades se ubican en los densos bosques del norte de Arizona, las extensas llanuras de las reservas indias o el remoto desierto oriental del estado, las comunidades rurales cuentan con el…

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