News roundup: Court extends AZ voter registration, UA to start in-person classes, Indigenous protesters block border crossing
Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, Oct. 5
O'odham-led demonstration blocks highway north of Arizona-Sonora border crossing
Demonstrations against border wall construction on ancestral Indigenous land continue despite Quitobaquito closure.
NPS closes route to Quitobaquito Springs
Closure comes a day after O'odham leaders held a cross-border ceremony at the spring.
News roundup: UA COVID app reaches 30,000 devices, Indigenous people protest border-wall construction on traditional lands
Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, September 28
Stand off with Border Patrol, National Park Service ends in scuffle with Indigenous-led demonstrators
O'odham organizers and their supporters stopped construction for over five hours at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
Indigenous activists arrested in demonstration against border wall construction near Quitobaquito Springs
Two O'odham protesters were arrested for impeding construction in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
Court ruling mandating sunset of ICE hotel program for migrant children goes into effect
A Friday ruling by a Los Angeles U.S. District Court judge gave the government until September 15 to end the practice
Report highlights biodiversity loss at Quitobaquito during border wall construction
Borderland scientists say that with all the noise "neither the birds nor the bird watchers want to be at Quitobaquito right now."
Coronavirus risk lessens in Sonora, Mexican officials say
The Mexican state to Arizona's south has entered a "medium" phase of risk.
Despite travel restrictions, Rocky Point welcoming Arizonans
The popular tourism destination reopened its beaches in August.
New top diplomat at the Mexican Consulate in Tucson
His priorities in his new role and how the pandemic has impacted services the consulate provides.
Indigenous activists protest wall contractor in Coolidge
Demonstrators gathered at Stinger Bridge & Iron to decry border wall construction across ancestral Indigenous border land.
New Citizenship and Immigration Services memo announces the implementation of new DACA guidance
The announcement follows a series of rule changes outlined by the Trump administration in July.
Travel restrictions at the border strain Nogales’s economy
But other areas of the city are continuing to grow.
Opioid busts on the rise at Arizona ports of entry
Port officials are also seeing more cases of drugs being smuggled by U.S. citizens.
