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  Doctors: Trump's 'Public Charge' Immigration Rule Makes America Less Healthy

  August 17 at 8 a.m.

  "In terms of public health, the bad thing is that the word may not get out, or the word will get out and people won't believe it," Will Humble said.

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  Numbers Dwindle Inside New Migrant Holding Facility in Yuma

  August 16 at 6:30 a.m.

  Despite this, Border Patrol agents fear what will happen if funding for the family-only facility runs out.

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  #GreenShirtGuy: Tucson Comic Talks About the Laugh Heard 'Round the World

  August 9 at 2 p.m.

  "If it wouldn't have been a circus, I would have had nothing to laugh at," Tucson activist Alex Kack tells New Times.

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  The Border Wall in Arizona Is Killing Wildlife and Wrecking the Environment

  August 2 at 11:04 a.m.

  In Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, more than five miles of double wire mesh fencing, i.e. pedestrian fencing, and some 25 miles of vehicle barriers stretch across the park's southern border with Mexico. The Trump administration plans to intensify those walls by replacing them with steel bollards, and construction is slated to begin August 21.
  
  Environmentalists and federal land-management agencies like the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have said that the proposed new wall would be even more detrimental to wildlife and the environment than the existing barriers already are. On a trip to the border last Thursday, we documented the devastation wrought by the current wall on wildlife and the surrounding environment in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.

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  Asylum Advocates Are Wary of Senator Sinema's 'Operation Safe Return'

  July 31 at 8:27 a.m.

  Arizona organizations who work with asylum-seekers have serious concerns about the program’s efficacy.

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  Death Toll Rises as Two More Migrants' Bodies Found Outside Tucson

  July 25 at 8 a.m.

  The 22-year-old woman died just a few feet from a new housing development.