Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

Green card holders fret about citizenship

Green card holders fret about citizenship

Deborah Lee November 30, 2017

Nervous green card holders are seeking citizenship in greater numbers because of concerns that the Trump Administration's new immigration policies could send them out of the country. From July 2016...

Quong Kee (on right) in Tombstone, Ariz. with John L. Larrieu, Tombstone Justice of the Peace (left). (Photo Courtesy by Arizona Historical Society, Collection PC 1000, Photo No. 4866)

Chinese in Arizona

Deborah Lee November 9, 2017

Traveling by train in Yuma with a box of bones in his hands, G.W. Chapman did what many believed to be sacrilegious. He dumped a huge box filled with dead Chinese immigrants' bones into the Colorado...

Las fotos del fichaje de individuos registrados en el Condado de Pima de febrero a septiembre de 2017 demuestran una composición racial que es muy latina y afroamericana. (La foto es cortesía del Departamento del Alguacil del Condado de Pima)

Blacks, Latinos face heftier prison time

Deborah Lee November 8, 2017

Nationwide, for every one white person imprisoned, roughly five black people are, according to the Sentencing Project. In Arizona, those ratios are similar for African Americans, with Hispanics...

Michelle Higgins, 51, working in her office on Wednesday, September 13, 2017. Photo by: Deborah Lee/Arizona Sonora News

Women’s pay shortchanged

Deborah Lee September 27, 2017

Eighteen cents. That is the difference between a woman and a man working in Arizona. According to data by the Institute of Women’s Policy Research’s (IWPR) project Status of Women in the States,...

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