An Eastern Airlines Boeing 777 can hold up to 305 people departed Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport after loading ICE detainees who were being held at the Arizona Removal Operations Coordination Center on April 27, 2026. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)
Mesa can’t enforce its own fire codes at an ICE facility where detainees can’t even sit down
In late January, the Mesa Fire and Medical Department responded to a medical call at a lesser known U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, where it found such severe overcrowding that it gave ICE a list of corrections it needed to make.
ICE said that the 238 people records show were detained that day at the Arizona Removal Operations Coordination Center, located at the Mesa-Gateway Airport, was an aberration because of...
Kimberly Kamps holds her granddaughter close as she waves her flag promoting the election of Democrats at a Women’s March rally in Phoenix, Ariz. on Jan 20, 2024. (Photo by Gloria Rebecca Gomez/Arizona Mirror)
Dems say AZ is ‘primed’ to flip blue, plan to pour resources into legislative races
National Democrats are once again eyeing Arizona’s state legislature, aiming to flip both chambers as part of a larger national push to capitalize on President Donald Trump’s historic unpopularity.
To that end, they say they plan to use their sizable war chest to boost Democratic chances in 15 races this year...
(Photo by © Aristide Economopoulos/for NJ Monitor)
‘It is not a six-year-old’s responsibility’: Democrats blast GOP school gun safety bill
Arizona Republicans want public schools to teach children what to do when they encounter a gun, but they refuse to support laws around safe firearm storage that could prevent that from being a problem in the first place.
On Monday, the GOP-controlled Arizona House of Representatives gave preliminary approval to ...
David Marshall in January 2025. (Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)
Why did a Democratic-majority board appoint a Freedom Caucus lawmaker as county recorder?
Supervisors in Navajo County had narrowed their pool to three finalists by the time they met to appoint a new recorder.
One, Jose Lerma, was a voter registration coordinator in the recorder’s office and familiar with the elections side of the job. Another, Suzanne Hudspeth, was...
The U.S. Supreme Court on April 9, 2026. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)
Supreme Court appears likely to let police keep using geofence warrants to track cellphones
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared likely to allow law enforcement to continue seeking warrants for the location history of cellphones near crime scenes, even as the justices wrestled with how far the government must go to protect Americans’ privacy.
Some of the justices appeared to be searching for a middle ground during...
In an aerial view, a immigrant family from Haiti walks towards a gap in the U.S. border wall from Mexico on Dec. 11, 2021 in Yuma, Arizona. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
First major TPS ruling of Trump era looms as Supreme Court hears Haiti and Syria cases Wednesday
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday will hear oral arguments on the Trump administration’s efforts to strip temporary legal status from 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians, a move that could open them up to deportation.
The case has the potential to have an impact on multiple lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to end protections for more than 1.3 million immigrants from all over the globe...
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