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Produce distributors in Nogales and Santa Cruz County want to add a cold inspection facility to the Mariposa Port of Entry in Nogales, Arizona, to promote the import of berries, leafy greens and other produce from Mexico in the hot summer months.

Budget Plan Includes Funding for Nogales Cold Inspection Facility

The facility could extend the produce import season into the summer months.
Border Patrol agents near Yuma apprehended 376 people — mostly families and children — who crossed the border on Jan. 14, 2019.

Nearly 400 Migrants Detained Near Yuma

The group is said to have crossed through tunnels under a stretch of border fence.
Signs held by No More Deaths supporters before the start of trial of four volunteers, Jan. 15, 2019.

Border Aid Group Volunteers Found Guilty on Misdemeanor Charges

The charges stem from the No More Deaths volunteers leaving food and water in the desert.
Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, D-Tucson, stands outside her congressional office in Washington, D.C., in this photo posted on her official Twitter account.

Rep Kirkpatrick Wants to Help 'Dreamers' Work for Congress

The Arizona representative's first bill would allow DACA recipients to work on Capitol Hill.
Tohono O'odham Vice Chairman Verlon Jose leans against a fence on the U.S.-Mexico border, which divides the Nation.

Tohono O'odham Officials Argue Against Border Wall

Tribal leaders traveled to Washington, D.C. to make their case before a committee.
Thomas Thwaites' documents his quest to take a break from being a human in his book "Goatman". Photograph by Tim Bowditch.

Becoming a Goat?

Also on Arizona Spotlight: Trials begin for "No More Deaths" volunteers; How photographing Bears Ears National Monument became a passion for a retired astronomer; and remembering when Martin Luther King, Jr. visited Tucson.
Border Patrol Tucson Sector Chief Rodolfo Karisch

Border Patrol Tucson Chief Heading to Texas

Rodolfo "Rudy" Karisch has overseen Tucson operations since 2017.
Tucson Police Department Chief Chris Magnus at Arizona Public Media in January 2018

How Cartel Crime Affects Tucson

TPD Chief Chris Magnus says trafficked drugs pose the biggest threat.
Arizona Republic reporter Daniel González of the Arizona Republic appears on Arizona 360 via Skype.

Government Shutdown Adds to Immigration Court Backlog

A discussion with Arizona Republic reporter Daniel González.
A temporary sign notifies visitors at Saguaro National Park East of closures associated with the partial government shutdown as it entered its third week on January 8, 2019.

How Gov't Shutdown Over Border Security Impacts Arizona

Approximately 10,000 federal employees in Arizona are either furloughed or working without pay.
Immigrants from Central America begin to sit in front of a Border Patrol vehicle after surrendering to agents outside of San Luis, Arizona on December 20, 2018.

Yuma Sector Sees Influx in Families Crossing Illegally

We also hear from asylum seekers camped outside the port of entry in San Luis, Mexico.
A boy in San Luis, Mexico looks through the fencing and concertina wire that separates San Luis, Mexico and San Luis, Arizona, December 2018.

Asylum Seekers; Government Shutdown Impact; Cartel Crime Near the Border

Arizona 360 encounters a group of asylum seekers crossing illegally as well as those waiting to make their case at a port of entry.
Salvador Martinez, 80, has lived on the U.S. side of Nogales for almost 60 years.

Nogales Resident Says Politicians Don't Know What Border Life is Like

Salvador Martinez has lived in Nogales, Arizona, for 60 years and says he feels safe.
Actor and playwright Jim Brochu portrays actor and artist Zero Mostel in "Zero Hour".

Exploring "Zero Hour", and the Rebellion of Zero Mostel

Also on Arizona Spotlight: A family separated for 6 years by the U.S. / Mexico border; Gary Paul Nabhan on "Food from the Radical Center"; and the Zoppè Family Circus legacy.
Containers owned by the U.S. Government parked in the middle of a former public parking lot near the Nogales border crossing, Jan. 4, 2019.

Border Groups Fear Nogales Parking Lot Sale Means Continued Militarization

The federal government has purchased one of the largest public parking lots at the Nogales border.
The U.S. Coast Guard prepares to deploy to the border, in this submitted photo.

Coast Guard Medical Teams to Assist Border Patrol

The Border Patrol in Yuma and Tucson doesn't have the manpower to conduct medical screenings of migrant children.

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