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Brian Best, Tucson Samaritans member, recovers a water jug from the bushes in a canyon of Peña Blanca in Coronado National Forest. Photo: MacKenzie Carolan | El Inde.

Against the wall podcast: Deterrent

March 5, 2020

By Meredith O’Neil, Claude Akins, Rocky Baier, Reed Battles, Makenzie Carolan, Sascha Fruehauf, Audry Herran, Aimee Rodríguez, and David Thalenberg/El Inde https://soundcloud.com/user-685928459/against-the-wall-episode-1-deterrent Last...

Members of the People’s Defense Initiative take a break from phone canvassing on election day, November 5, 2019, to talk with Zaira Livier, PDI executive director. Photo: Katie Giles | El Inde.

Against the wall podcast: Sanctuary cities

March 5, 2020

By By Briannon Wilfong, Ashley Fredde, Vianney Cárdenas, Rosa Garcia, Kathleen Giles, Jillian Hanlin, and Michelle Rascón-Canales/El Inde https://soundcloud.com/user-685928459/against-the-wall-episode-2-sanctuary-cities The...

A tower stands near the border wall in Naco, Ariz. on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018. The wall in Naco was completed in May of 2017.

Arizona companies scrutinized over border wall

Cedar Gardner October 2, 2018

  In Sierra Vista, Ramon Rosario Jr. retrieves his mail from the offices of KWR Construction. Rosario no longer works for the company, but he still holds the management in high regard. “I’ve...

Gallons of water are left in desert routes for crossing migrants in the Sonoran Desert by humanitarian groups. Photo by: Noemi Salazar Mata/ASNS

Border Patrol agents leave migrants without water in the Sonoran Desert

Noemi Salazar Mata April 18, 2018

  All the videos show the same scenario: A Border Patrol agent walks up to water jugs behind chollas and cacti, opens them up and dumps the water out. Is it inhumane to destroy water and...

Employees wait for the next load of pecans to be dropped off at the cleaning plant at the Green Valley Pecan Company on Monday, Dec. 5, 2016. (Photo by Rebecca Noble / Arizona Sonora News)

Guest farm workers do not always understand the rules

steven spooner December 4, 2017

With almost no one in the U.S. willing to work harvest jobs, farms have imported workers via temporary visas, a program widely criticized for the extensive bureaucratic requirements including housing...

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