Kelly: Trump is giving him ‘elbow room’ on what border wall should be
WASHINGTON - Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly told a Senate committee Wednesday that his department will not build a border wall "from sea to shining sea," but will instead use a variety of techniques to secure the Southwest border.
Water cooperation across U.S.-Mexico border essential, complex
NOGALES -- Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, share something more meaningful than their city name. They also share a source of water that is vital to their region of the border.
Senate panel asks experts if border wall is best approach to security
WASHINGTON - While they agreed that the U.S. needs to secure its Southwest border, no one at a Senate hearing Tuesday appeared ready to say a wall along the entire border would be the only way to go.
Arizona soccer club helps young refugees adapt to new life
PHOENIX -- Teenage boys sprint back and forth on a dusty soccer field in North Phoenix, the markings on their jerseys lit up by the last rays of the evening sun.
ASU provides support to international students as concerns over travel ban grow
PHOENIX - As graduation looms and student applications are being submitted for the summer and fall semesters, Arizona State University officials are providing support to the international student community over President Trump’s second executive order calling for a travel ban from six Muslim-majority nations.
‘Adopting’ Syrian refugees in Phoenix builds bridges between cultures
Debbie Rhoads Crenshaw saw a Facebook post on a local community page a year and a half ago asking people to adopt a Syrian refugee family at Christmastime.
Valley police departments lag behind their cities in Latino representation
PHOENIX - When Magdalena Schwartz, now a pastor in Mesa, first immigrated to America from Chile in 1998, she played guitar for people in jail because she felt it was a way she could volunteer without speaking English.
From fresh produce to inmate job training, Nogales food bank fills a basket of needs
NOGALES -- Food waste, the affordability of fresh produce, and prison inmate rehabilitation may seem like disparate issues, but a local food bank is approaching them all head-on.
No divide on this border issue; both sides urge less partisan posturing
WASHINGTON - Democrat Bill Richardson and Republican Jeff Flake agree on one thing: The border is no place for partisan politics.
Borderlands Theater has been putting on a show for three decades in Tucson
TUCSON – Nestled among the sprawling buildings around the Tucson Convention Center is the Sosa-Carrillo-Frémont House, home to Borderlands Theater and the Arizona Historical Society offices.
City of Phoenix opens new trade office, signs economic agreements with two Mexican cities
PHOENIX -- The City of Phoenix has taken major steps toward increasing its economic relationship with Mexico with the opening of a trade office in Hermosillo, Sonora, and the signing of memorandums of understanding with Hermosillo and the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa.
