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Arizona Democrats plan to keep demanding access to ICE facility

By Morgan Fischer

Aug 4, 2025

“We want to make sure there’s coverage at all times,” said Democratic Rep. Yassamin Ansari on Sunday.

ICE wants prison beds. Gov. Katie Hobbs may have just provided 500

By Celina Jiménez

Aug 1, 2025

Arizona sold an empty prison to a private company for $15 million just as ICE is looking for more places to house immigrants.

In Phoenix, a routine traffic stop can still get you deported

By Celina Jiménez

Jul 31, 2025

Phoenix police say they do little about immigration enforcement. But contacting them can also mean landing on ICE’s radar.

an Arizona Department of Public Safety trooper speaks to a man in a white shirt and hat

He called 911 after a fender bender. A state trooper called ICE

By Morgan Fischer

Jul 30, 2025

A green card applicant got uncomfortably close to deportation after he got clipped on the highway earlier this month.

tom homan in a suit from the chest up, but the inside of the suit is a picture of a border wall

Tom Homan once spared Phoenix migrants. Now he’s Trump’s Darth Vader

By Stephen Lemons

Jul 28, 2025

Pre-Trump, colleagues of border czar Tom Homan described him as reasonable. Now, they see a cruel man they don’t recognize.

Stanton, Ansari rip ICE for illegally barring them from detention center

By Morgan Fischer

Jul 25, 2025

Reps. Greg Stanton and Yassamin Ansari say ICE illegally interfered with their right to make spot inspections of facilities.

Owner of Phoenix taco bus pleads not guilty following arrest

By Morgan Fischer

Jul 18, 2025

Following a raid and arrests at his home and businesses last week, El Taco Loko's owner appeared in court on Friday.

Owner of unique Phoenix taco bus arrested. What to know

By Tirion Boan

Jul 14, 2025

After searching his home, restaurant, food truck and taco bus, Homeland Security Investigations arrested the business owner.

MAGA county official jokes about killing pro-Palestine activist

By TJ L'Heureux

Jul 11, 2025

Sam Stone of the county recorder’s office suggested firing a missile at a New York man targeted by the Trump administration.

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Tempe Iranian man arrested by ICE goes on hunger strike in prison

By Zach Buchanan

Jul 10, 2025

Mehzrad Asadi Eidivand has lost 45 pounds, a friend says. His brother also went on hunger strike in ICE detention last month.

Kris Mayes says it's ‘bullshit’ that ICE agents wear masks

By Morgan Fischer

Jul 8, 2025

Masked agents are abducting people left and right. “Real lawmen and women don’t wear masks,” the Arizona attorney general said.

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Phoenix woman with leukemia getting sicker in ICE lockup, partner says

By Morgan Fischer

Jul 3, 2025

Sonia Almaraz says Arbella “Yari” Rodríguez Márquez has lost 55 pounds since February, when Border Patrol arrested her.

Miscarriage of justice: Donald Trump’s war on pregnant migrants

By Stephen Lemons

Jul 2, 2025

Kept in awful conditions by ICE, Rubia Morales-Alfaro lost a pregnancy. In Trump’s America, there's no mercy for migrant moms.

Turns out Tempe Iranian man ICE arrested is an ‘anti-Muslim’ Trump fan

By Zach Buchanan

Jul 1, 2025

Friends of Mehzrad Asadi Eidivand say he is a big Donald Trump supporter and hates Iran’s extremist Islamic regime.

Did ICE target the family of detained Iranian man on hunger strike?

By Zach Buchanan

Jun 26, 2025

Mehrad Eidivand has been in detention since May 31. Last weekend, immigration agents arrested two of his relatives in Tempe.

Activists call for Home Depot to bar ICE from using its lots

By TJ L'Heureux

Jun 26, 2025

Home Depot says it doesn’t involve itself in politics, but Phoenix activists want it to stand up to ICE.

Arizona churches brace for ICE raids after Los Angeles arrests

By Collin Hodge | Cronkite News

Jun 20, 2025

Donald Trump has authorized immigration agents to make arrests at churches. “There is no sanctuary at all,” said one pastor.

border patrol agents arrest people in bisbee

Border Patrol arrests people at Bisbee Pride, raising alarm

By Natalia Rodriguez | LOOKOUT

Jun 19, 2025

“It was almost like a show of force or scare tactic to intimidate us and let us know we could be next,” one person said.

a series of presidents-as-dominos — from bill clinton to george bush to barack obama to joe biden — knock into each other, pushing a trump domino onto a small family in the desert

How Clinton and Obama helped build Trump’s mass deportation machine

By Stephen Lemons

Jun 18, 2025

Donald Trump didn’t invent racist immigration policy. For decades, both major parties built the system he’s now weaponizing.

joe arpaio blows out candles on a birthday cake

We went to Joe Arpaio’s birthday. So did serial murderer Sammy Gravano

By Stephen Lemons

Jun 17, 2025

The notorious former county sheriff celebrated his 93rd birthday on Saturday. We went so you didn’t have to.

Immigration

Map: Where ICE has been seen in Phoenix in 2025

GOP bigwig calls feds on Dem who posted ICE sighting

Immigration

Map: Where ICE has been seen in Phoenix in 2025

GOP bigwig calls feds on Dem who posted ICE sighting

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