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  Deployed, Then Deported: How a US Navy Vet from Phoenix Was Exiled to Mexico

  Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 6:30 a.m.

  Alex Murillo served his country. Then he was kicked out.

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  Mike Pence Courts Support From Arizona’s Latino Community Amid Impeachment Probe

  Thursday, October 3, 2019 at 3:13 p.m.

  The vice president boasted of economic gains among the Latino community in Arizona as an impeachment inquiry charged on in Washington.

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  Existing Border Barrier Already Destroying Environment as Activists Fight Trump Wall

  Wednesday, August 7, 2019 at 10:58 a.m.

  Existing barriers already damage the surrounding desert. A bigger, taller wall, environmentalists fear, would be even worse.

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

  Friday, August 2, 2019 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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  Death Toll Rises as Two More Migrants' Bodies Found Outside Tucson

  Thursday, July 25, 2019 at 8 a.m.

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

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  Port Closure Makes Life Difficult for Average Border Residents

  Tuesday, July 16, 2019 at 10:41 a.m.

  It took Juana and Mario Feliz three hours to get home after crossing the border to buy milk.