Arizona law enforcement agencies are required under President Trump’s new executive order on immigration to act as immigration officers and expand priority deportations to include long-term undocumented immigrants.
Wind whips through the dry grass at the base of the U.S.-Mexico border fence where Tim Foley stands smoking a cigarette and surveying vast wilderness of the Altar Valley. Here, just west of the Sasabe border crossing, the 20-foot tall steel fencing abruptly gives way to straggling barbed wire as the physical border, so easily…
U.S. immigration courts nationwide are struggling under severe backlogs, despite the addition of nine immigration judges announced in February. Immigration spending has not kept pace with money spent on border enforcement, leaving courts with steadily increasing caseloads and wait times. These backlogs mean hundreds of thousands of people are in limbo for an average of…
Rainbow-colored telavera animals crowd the outside of Casa Maya de Mexico in the self-described “artist colony” of Tubac where metalwork shaped into suns and moons, paper mache skeletons from Día de los muertos, and wooden religious figures join them. María Troy, who has worked at Casa Maya de Mexico for the last two years, helps bring…
A lo largo de la frontera en Nogales a través de un cerco desgastado con huecos más pequeños que un penique, Joanna Celaya ve a su hermano por primera vez en tres años. Ellos platican y comparten los cuentos de sus vidas por varias horas. Aquí, a lo largo de la frontera de Nogales, hay personas que…
