Migrant crossings still at historic highs in Yuma
The Yuma border remains busy as a group of close to 50 waited patiently for border patrol agents on Thursday…
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Sinema, Kelly highlight concerns as Title 42 is ending soon
The deadline is approaching for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to respond to Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Mark…
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Latest update on Ducey’s shipping container border wall
The Department of Justice asks the federal court to dismiss Governor Ducey’s case about the shipping containers along the Southwest…
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Senator Sinema questions Secretary Mayorkas about Title 42
Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema questioned Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about Title…
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Title 42 to resume after judge grants Biden temporary pause
Previously the Biden Administration tried to end the policy, but then expanded it, recently including…
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Federal judge ends Title 42
In Yuma, Customs and Border Protection data shows the policy has been used over 50,000 times to deport migrants over the last two…
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Grijalva requests GAO review of CBP handling of asylum seekers’ personal property
On Monday, November 7, 2022, Arizona Representative Raul M. Grijalva issued a statement following the a joint letter to the Government Accountability…
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Senator Kelly visits Phoenix a day before the election
On Monday, November 7, 2022, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly visited Phoenix a day before the…
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Environmentalists seek to join fight against AZ shipping containers along border
The Center for Biological Diversity asked a federal judge for permission to join the Biden administration as a…
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UPDATE: Armed subject killed by Border Patrol was shot by BORTAC agents
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed to KYMA that Border Patrol agents assigned to the Yuma Sector killed an armed subject in San…
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Border Patrol agents find missing juvenile in a stolen vehicle
El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents encountered two United States citizen juveniles, with one reported as missing, on Thursday, October 24,…
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An officer was reunited with the baby he helped deliver and rescue at the US-Mexico border
A US Customs and Border Protection officer was reunited with a young girl who he helped deliver at the US-Mexico border six years…
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Arizona’s governor is stacking shipping containers along the border and defying a federal request to remove them
Gaps in fencing along the US-Mexico border can be a dramatic — and sometimes puzzling –…
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Number of Venezuelan migrants crossing in Yuma declining
Democratic U.S. Congressman Raul Grijalva wishes the administration chose to protect…
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SPECIAL REPORT: Tracking every migrant death in Yuma County
58 migrants have died so far this year in Yuma County, from 10 different countries, mostly occurring in Yuma’s east…
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Migrants found in locked moving truck
The U.S. Border Patrol agents in Tucson rescued 32 migrants that were locked in a moving box…
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Sinema tours IRC, discusses work reducing migrant numbers
Through a press release, Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema spoke with regional stakeholders at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in…
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Illegal border crossings to US from Mexico hit annual high
A surge in migration from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua in September brought the number of illegal crossings to the highest level ever recorded in a…
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State of Arizona sues federal government over request to remove shipping containers
Because of the federal inaction, the state argues the container project has legal…
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Cocopah Indian Tribe joins federal government, wants removal of shipping containers on tribal land
A representative from the Cocopah Indian Tribe gave a statement on the federal government asking Arizona to take down the shipping containers on…
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