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

Eloy Detention Center, located in Eloy, Arizona, is a privately run immigration detention center owned and operated by the formerly named Corrections Corporation of America, now CoreCivic. Eloy Detention Center is the third largest immigrant detention center in the nation with the highest number of deaths. (Photo by Elisabeth Morales/Arizona Sonora News Service)

Increasing immigration detention: sensible or senseless?

Elisabeth Morales April 6, 2017

The stark white walls, chairs, tables and ceilings were what first stuck out when Arizona State University researcher and professor Leah Sarat toured the privately owned immigration detention...

Southside Presbyterian Church, located in Tucson, Ariz., is the church Rosa Robles stayed in sanctuary at. Photo by: Elisabeth Morales/ Arizona Sonora News

Sanctuary movement: perception or power?

Elisabeth Morales February 16, 2017

After 94 days in sanctuary, Francisco Perez Cordova left his Tucson office-turned-bedroom at St. Francis in the Foothills United Methodist Church. A year later in 2015, Rosa Robles left her...

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