‘Showdown on the Rez’: ASU women take basketball game to Navajo Reservation
FORT DEFIANCE – The Arizona State women's basketball team continues its long relationship with the Native American community by playing a basketball game against Baylor on the Navajo Reservation.
Advocates want lame-duck border law pause; White House eyes new rules
WASHINGTON - Advocates from Southwest border communities on Thursday called on Congress to resist the urge to ram through border laws in the coming lame-duck session before the newly elected, more Democratic, Congress is sworn in next year.
Court – again – puts brakes on administration plan to overturn DACA
WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court Thursday rejected a Trump administration request to move forward with its plan to end the Obama-era DACA program, saying the deferred deportation plan should stay in effect while legal challenges are pursued.
Transgender rally at state Capitol encourages voting
PHOENIX – The LGBTQ community and its supporters rallied at the state Capitol and hope to encourage others to vote
Rocks vs. Glocks: Trump backs off suggestion that soldiers fire on migrants
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump backed off his statement that active-duty soldiers on the border should respond to rock-throwing migrants as if the soldiers had been attacked with a firearm, saying Friday that such immigrants would be "arrested for a very long time."
Nogales awaits arrival of U.S. troops as migrant caravan plods north
NOGALES – The Nogales mayor, a business owner and a resident are among the 20,000 residents in this Arizona border city awaiting the arrival of U.S. troops. President Trump ordered the deployment of 5,200 troops along the U.S. Mexico border to handle a migrant caravan traveling through Mexico from Central America.
Trump’s aim of skirting birthright citizenship draws backlash, skeptics
WASHINGTON - Arizona native Francisco Fernandez holds a college degree and a job with a nonprofit in the nation's capital - none of which, he said, would have been possible without the citizenship status conferred on him at birth, a right that could be dismantled for others if President Donald Trump has his way.
Arizona community honors 11 lives lost in Pittsburgh synagogue massacre
Jewish leaders and community members across metro Phoenix came together Monday night in Scottsdale to honor the 11 lives lost in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting on Saturday.
Administration plans to send 5,200 active-duty military to assist at border
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration confirmed plans to send 5,200 active military troops to help "harden" the Southwest border to deter a caravan of thousands of Central American migrants headed north through Mexico, with the first 800 troops already on their way.
Footsteps into America: A migrant’s journey of struggle, hope and the unknown
TUCSON – More than 100 Central America migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. formed a temporary community at a Tucson motel in October. Their story is at the center of a national debate over immigration.
