(Im)migration Movements & the Law

Arizona's legislature is set to vote on legislation to pay police $2,500 for every illegal immigrant they help deport, marking it the latest U.S. state to consider bounties to support President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policies.

President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 against Tren de Aragua members, provoking a legal fight. Here's what to know about the controversial law, which was last used during World War II.

President Donald Trump on Thursday suspended security clearances for Perkins Coie and ordered investigations of at least 15 law firms over diversity programs.

Tougher Canadian border measures in response to Donald Trump’s threats may make crossings more dangerous for migrants.

Heraldo’s parents and two-year-old brother had arrived in Nogales, Sonora, a few days earlier, two months after fleeing their village in Venezuela.

Broken into ten short stories, “The Consequences” takes place in California’s Central Valley in the 1980s. The frank stories depict Mexican and Mexican American laborers, their families, their enemies, and their communities. La Migra hangs like a spirit over each story -- sometimes seen, but always felt. “The Consequences” succeeds in bringing humanity back to a group of people that have been relegated to a “mass” – mass deportations, mass raids, mass arrests, mass round-ups – by the United States government. “It may not seem political,” says Muñoz, “But the very act of confronting one human being and understanding their situation? Absolutely.”

U.S. and Mexican officials have spent decades building trust and confidence, and the presence of Mexican firefighters in Los Angeles is the product of the often invisible diplomatic and technical cooperation that breaks down historical barriers and overcomes bureaucratic hurdles.

UA professor Samara Klar has conducted polling on immigration for years. She says while Arizonans might have for Trump on the promise of mass deportations, they’re not anti-immigrant.

Environmentalists are braced for new construction on the president’s signature border wall – and the damage that would wreak

By Andrew Hay (Reuters) - Arizona's legislature is set to vote on legislation to pay police $2,500 for every illegal immigrant they help deport, marking it the latest U.S. state to consider bounties to support President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policies. Arizona's so-called bounty bill would be paid for by taxing international money transfers and has a good chance of passing the

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                              Monday, February 10, 2025President Petersen Calls on Arizona's Public Universitiesto End Illegal, Discriminatory DEI Programs PHOENIX, ARIZONA— Senate President Warren Petersen is calling on Arizona's public universities to end all illegal Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) programs, and to restore commonsense merit-based opportunities for students, faculty, and staff. In a letter sent today to A

The Show's Sam Dingman visits the "The Place Where Clouds Are Formed" exhibit and asks the co-curators about the stories behind the effort to illustrate a heavily guarded barrier between two regions of the ancestral O’odham homelands.

Questions remain if the containers will act as a deterrent for migrants hoping to cross the border

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced an effort to stack more shipping containers to form a wall along the Mexico border, weeks after the federal government said some containers were placed illegally.

The Cocopah Indian Tribe says the state of Arizona acted against its wishes by stacking shipping containers on its land to prevent illegal border crossings.

Two O’odham women arrested at the border were taken to a private prison where they were denied access to the outside world.

Amber Ortega was arrested for physically blocking construction machinery at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument last September

The destructive legacy of Trump’s border wall campaign cannot be measured in miles alone and will not be easily undone.

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – The National Park Service has closed public access to a spot in southern Arizona where activists were arrested last week for protesting construction of the border w…

The United States’ southern border with Mexico is 1,933 miles long, stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the tip of South Texas. Some 700 of those miles have fencing in place, and it varies greatly depending on where you are.

President Trump and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) are headed to a final showdown over his signature border wall, setting the stage for a rematch of a fight two years ago that shuttered the govern…

President to visit new section of border wall at San Luis, then deliver political speech in Phoenix

In visiting the US-Mexico border, Trump seeks to change the subject to an issue he thinks will help electrify his base.

“A historically significant area is going to be changed irreparably. You’re never going to be able to put it back together.”

In Arizona, the president visits a new section of border wall at San Luis before delivering a political speech in Phoenix

What happened to President Trump's long-promised wall? How much of it got built? And how effective has it been?

Photographs published by Gizmodo appear to show sections of the partially constructed wall torn apart by monsoon rains

You've heard a lot of talk about the wall. Here's what it's really like.

President Trump's long-promised border wall is igniting a fight over public lands in Arizona that could be adversely impacted by the construction of barriers that will most-likely alter the landscape in areas treasured by locals and nature lovers.

Victim’s identity and country of origin has not been released yet but he was likely an undocumented migrant, authorities say