PHOENIX – More than a month ago, 19 Arizona agencies were given simple public record requests seeking data on the numbers of those requests those agencies received in 2015 and 2016. Less than half responded. Of the 19 agencies requested, nine responded, three on the same day it was sent. Only one agency — Arizona Attorney General’s…
PHOENIX – This marks the last week the Arizona state legislature was supposed to meet. Instead, there will be additional special sessions to review the rest of the bills out there and go over the long awaited budget from Gov. Doug Ducey. No bail for accused rapists Appellate Judge Jon Thompson ruled that people who…
In one of many campaign promises, Donald Trump promised to deport the millions of undocumented immigrants in the United States. Yet according to the Syracuse University database TRAC, of the 105,853 completed cases in the 2017 fiscal year, from October 2016 through March 2017, in about half of all immigration court cases judges allowed the undocumented immigrant to stay in the United…
When the words “build a wall, “illegal aliens,” “Trump” or “deportation” blast from the television screen, Juan sends his 9-year-old U.S. citizen grandson outside to play. Juan, a long-term undocumented immigrant, doesn’t want him to worry. Juan first came to the United States when he was 19 and has lived in Tucson since, calling…
For the Tohono O’odham nation, a border wall already exists, it just hasn’t been built yet. In the desert of southern Arizona, the federally recognized O’odham reservation occupies 4,464 square miles of desert that half of its 34,000 enrolled population call home. But, the original tribal land — roughly the size of Connecticut — extends far past…
