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Arizona Sonoran News

Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

Foley, in his office at the Arizona Border Recon headquarters, sits in front of a poster from the documentary Cartel Land, which featured Foley's vigilante justice.

Foley’s War: Occupying the U.S.-Mexico Border

Kendal Blust April 28, 2016

Wind whips through the dry grass at the base of the U.S.-Mexico border fence where Tim Foley stands smoking a cigarette and surveying vast wilderness of the Altar Valley. Here, just west of the Sasabe...

Over the past ten years, immigration backlogs have more than doubled. ( Chart: https://infogr.am/us_immigration_backlogs)

Justice delayed: Immigration courts drown in backlogged cases

Kendal Blust March 24, 2016

U.S. immigration courts nationwide are struggling under severe backlogs, despite the addition of nine immigration judges announced in February. Immigration spending has not kept pace with money...

Natalie Guerrero Hernández  (center) with her parents in their home in Nogales, Sonora.

Going to school in the ‘other’ Nogales: Educating U.S. citizens living in Mexico

Kendal Blust March 10, 2016

  Natalie Guerrero Hernández wants to be a nurse when she grows up. Possibly. “Medicine. Or also architecture or graphic design. Those are the things I like the most,” she said. Natalie...

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