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Arizona Sonoran News

Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

From left to right, Jorge Colombia, Carlos Cana and Mariel Fernandez visit with family members in Mexico through the border fence in Nogales, Arizona on Saturday, April 8, 2017. Fernandez said if a physical wall is built, he may have to resort to calling his family members rather than seeing them face to face. Photo by Amanda Oien / Arizona Sonora News

The ‘Ambos Nogales’ divided by Trump’s wall

Amanda Oien April 27, 2017

  Saturdays and Sundays bring families to the steel beams of fence, dividing Ambos Nogales, a Spanish term to describe the community of Nogales north and south of the border. Families and...

The San Pedro River Crosses the US/Mexican Border near Hereford, Arizona. (Photo Credit: http://www.2ndamendmentshow.com/hsst.htm)

Will wall stop resilient San Pedro River from crossing the border?

Taylor Dayton March 17, 2017

The mighty San Pedro River in Southeastern Arizona and Northern Mexico has survived droughts, floods, fires and wars, but will the Trump administration's proposal to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican...

Naco, AZ is a census-designated place of about 1,000 people. Photo by: Erik Kolsrud/Arizona Sonora News

A wall being built in Naco’s backyard stirs up emotions

Erik Kolsrud February 10, 2017

NACO, Arizona — Sonia Urcadez woke up one October morning to the sound of cement trucks lining the street in front of her house, kicking up clouds of dust that obscured the sunrise and...

Activist Steve Teichner helps artist Ana Teresa Fernández paint the border wall in Nogales, Sonora. Photo by Kendal Blust

Border artist paints new tint on the fence

Terry Wimmer December 15, 2015

 Thick, rusty-brown steel plates loom 20-feet high over Ambos Nogales, signaling the physical and symbolic delineation between the United States and Mexico. Ana Teresa Fernández wants to change...

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