Ryan Devereaux, The Intercept, Aug. 28, 2023 "The U.S. Border Patrol has been detaining asylum-seekers outdoors in a deadly corner of the Arizona desert for the better part of a year — significantly longer than was previously known — according...
Austin Kocher, Ph.D., Jan. 11, 2023 "The agreement between Arizona and the federal government to remove the container wall was signed just days after I visited the monstrosity for myself. ..."
Despite his recent stipulation to remove his border container wall, Gov. Ducey still claims that the federal government does not own the "Roosevelt Reservation" along the border. Here is his latest (Dec. 23, 2022) court filing.
Paul Ingram, Tucson Sentinel, Dec. 21, 2022 "Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said the state will halt placing shipping containers along the Arizona-Mexico border, and begin removing hundreds of the 8,000-lb. steel boxes set up as makeshift barriers from federal...
USA v. Ducey "...Arizona has entered Reclamation and Forest Service lands along the Arizona-Mexico border and installed—and continues to install—hundreds of double-stacked multi-ton shipping containers that damage federal lands, threaten public safety, and...
Ryan Devereaux, The Intercept, Dec. 14, 2022 "For seven weeks, the Biden administration has watched Arizona’s governor engage in a pattern of brazen lawbreaking along the border, destroying public lands that the administration is sworn to protect, and done...
Melissa del Bosque, The Border Chronicle, Dec. 6, 2022 "In 2008, I wrote about the first border walls built after 9/11 in Texas, and over the last 15 years I’ve continued to document walls, walls, and more border walls under every president since George...
Keep an eye on Ducey v. Moore (2:22-cv-01814) in Arizona federal district court. For background and context, watch this and this . According to expert attorney Dinah Bear , Gov. Ducey's attorneys are making some rather extraordinary claims. Nov. 23, 2022...
New Lexis Content New publications released on Lexis this month: • Regulating Public Utility Performance: The Law of Market Structure, Pricing and Jurisdiction • Warnken's Maryland Criminal Procedure (MSBA) • Virginia Labor and Employment...
Caroline Tracey, High Country News, Sept. 19, 2022 "The Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner began to coordinate its response to migrant death in May of 2002, when 14 people — 13 migrants and a suspected guide who remains unidentified to this day ...
Elliot Spagat, Associated Press, Sept. 3, 2022 "The Cocopah Indian Tribe said Friday that the state of Arizona acted against its wishes by stacking shipping containers on its land to prevent illegal border crossings. The tribe determined that the state put...
Todd Miller, The Border Chronicle, Sept. 1, 2022 "When I come across surveillance towers in the borderlands, I first look to see if there are any communities, towns, or houses in its view. I did this on Monday, on the Tohono O’odham Nation in the southern...
Melissa del Bosque, The Border Chronicle, Feb. 1, 2022 " The Border Chronicle is highlighting a Q&A with journalists Jude Joffe-Block and Terry Greene Sterling who covered the rise of Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio as he waged a campaign of terror against...
Danyelle Khmera, Arizona Daily Star, Jan. 19, 2022 "A judge ruled that a Tohono O’odham woman is not guilty of criminal action in protesting border wall construction on her ancestral land, saying the prosecution imposed a substantial burden on the exercise...
Jorge Cancino, Univision, Aug. 3, 2021 "An El Paso, Texas, district judge temporarily blocked an order issued by Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Tuesday that gave Texas border state police extraordinary powers to stop vehicles if officers had reasonable suspicion...