Opponents of failed legislation that would have forced local police departments into 287(g) agreements to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers protest in front of the Arizona Senate building on Feb. 17, 2025. Activists in the city of Mesa are working to flip their city council to put an end to their city's own long-running 287(g) agreement. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)
Eyeing upcoming elections, Arizona activists want their city officials to stand up to ICE
It’s a sweltering 105 degrees on a Sunday afternoon in June when Jillian Ryan sets out to tell voters in east Mesa that their city has a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to allow local police officers to be a cog in…
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GOP lawmakers mull special session for school voucher deal with teachers union
Republican lawmakers are contemplating trying to call a special session of the Arizona Legislature as they attempt to negotiate a deal that would likely kill a Republican ballot initiative as well as one headed by public school advocates, both aimed at reforms to the state’s school voucher program.
In the final hours of the annual legislative session just two weeks ago, Republican lawmakers pushed…
The pond at Quitobaquito Springs, where multiple endangered species live, sits only a couple hundred feet away from the United States border with Mexico. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)
Trump’s second border wall could wipe out three species found nowhere else but Quitobaquito
The tranquil waters of Quitobaquito Springs sit in the shadow of the wall separating the U.S. from Mexico that spans much of Arizona’s southern border. The small spring is home to three species that exist nowhere else in the world.
But Quitobaquito Springs, also called A’al Waipai by the Hia-Ced O’odham people, could be destroyed by the Trump administration’s…
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