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Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

Joan Moreno and his work partner bike back to El Sasabe, Sonora after working at Rancho de la Osa in Sasabe, Arizona on Sept. 14. Joan lives in Tucson, but stays in El sasabe when he works on the ranch. (Photo by Corinna Tellez/ Arizona Sonora News)

Traffic trickles through Sasabe port

Corinna Tellez November 6, 2018

“Did you go out to the port in Nogales?” “No.” “So, then Douglas?” “No, not there either. I went out to the Sasabe port of entry. The Sasabe port of entry is the least-trafficked...

The border fence separates the sister cities of Nogales, Ariz. and Nogales, Son. (Photo: Genesis Lara/Arizona Sonora News)

Teens turn to drug trafficking in Nogales, Arizona

Genesis Lara May 4, 2018

With 1.2 pounds of methamphetamine concealed on his back and legs, 13-year-old Rene was arrested at the Interstate 19 Border Patrol checkpoint in April 2016. He was charged with unlawful transportation...

Tohono O’odham members and other southern tribe members hang a flag at the U.S.-Mexico border. Photo by Alejandaro Higuera.

For Native Americans, racism hits home

Sarah Covey November 15, 2017

  After over 500 years of broken treaties and forceful domination from European settlers and the U.S. government, Native Americans in Arizona today still face racism in the most intimate part...

Seeking Safe Haven: Central American children hope to find refuge across U.S.-Mexico Border

Seeking Safe Haven: Central American children hope to find refuge across U.S.-Mexico Border

Sara Cline April 29, 2016

About an hour south of Tucson, on the other side of a fence that demarcates the United States from Mexico, a humanitarian crisis unfolds as tens of thousands of child migrants from Central America...

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