Author – The Durango Herald

Hikers fight border wall at start of trail

PHOENIX – Tess Mullaney remembers looking at endless rolling desert hills, covered in a thin layer of white snow just as the sun was rising the day she embarked on a 2½-month journey through...

DATE: May 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Despite critics’ outcry, border wall construction goes on

PHOENIX – The federal government is proceeding with plans for a border wall even as communities where construction is ongoing protest the presence of workers, according to court documents. ...

DATE: Apr 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

U.S. sending military police to two border crossings

PHOENIX – The U.S. government says it is sending 160 military police and engineers to two official border crossings to deal with asylum-seekers in case a federal appeals court strikes down o...

DATE: Mar 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Judge hints he may rule for migrants in Border Patrol lawsuit

TUCSON, Ariz. – A judge indicated Wednesday he may side with migrants in a lawsuit that alleges extreme overcrowding and inhumane conditions at some of the Border Patrol’s facilities in Ariz...

DATE: Jan 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Arizona border activist acquitted of harboring immigrants

TUCSON, Ariz. – An activist was quickly acquitted Wednesday on charges he illegally harbored two Central American immigrants at a southern Arizona camp operated by a humanitarian group. ...

DATE: Nov 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

For 30-somethings, stakes are high over future of DACA

PHOENIX – Karina Ruiz’s life is deeply rooted in Phoenix. She has three children and two grandchildren, a side gig selling houses, frantic days rushing children off to school and activities ...

DATE: Nov 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

450 miles of border wall by next year? In Arizona, it starts

YUMA, Ariz. – On a dirt road past rows of date trees, just feet from a dry section of Colorado River, a small construction crew is putting up a towering border wall that the government hopes...

DATE: Sep 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Police: Three students had thousands of fentanyl pills on Arizona campus

PHOENIX – Police in a small city on the U.S.-Mexico border say three students were arrested Wednesday for possessing fentanyl pills on campus, including one who had more than 3,000 pills wit...

DATE: Jun 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Asylum-seekers who show credible fear not eligible for bond

PHOENIX – Detained asylum-seekers who have shown they have a credible fear of returning to their country will no longer be able to ask a judge to grant them bond. U.S. Attorney Ge...

DATE: Apr 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Middle East men caught at border cleared of terrorism ties

PHOENIX – The arrests of six Middle Eastern men caught entering the United States illegally from Mexico two years ago set off alarm in border states and in some right-wing blogs and other me...

DATE: Nov 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

More border crossers prosecuted in ‘new era’ of enforcement

PHOENIX – When U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivered his get-tough-on-immigration speech in the border city of Nogales early this year, he promised a “new era” in immigration enforce...

DATE: Nov 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Key U.S. Latino group says new name will help fight vs. Trump

‘La Raza’ will change to ‘UnidosUS’

DATE: Jul 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News