A sign at the front gate of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Phoenix District Office, where upwards of 150 detainees can be held at a time. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)
Seizures, chest pain and long holds at a Phoenix ICE facility flying under the radar
In midtown Phoenix, an ICE officer called 911 in mid-December 2025 as a pregnant woman who was being detained by immigration agents was having medical issues at a facility that has largely gone under the radar.
“We have a pregnant detainee complaining of severe abdominal pain,” the unidentified ICE agent says in a 911 recording exclusively obtained by the Arizona Mirror, adding that the 27-year-old woman had “white mucus” coming out of her…
Green Party candidates Risa Lombardo and Duwayne Collier are running for statewide office using Clean Elections money. At least six voters say that they have no idea why they are listed as having made small-dollar donations to help Lombardo, Collier and GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott Neely qualify for the public campaign funding. (Photo by Jim Small/Arizona Mirror)
Three candidates now face a criminal probe over public campaign funding fraud allegations
The Arizona Attorney General’s Office is investigating three fringe candidates for statewide office facing allegations that they falsely used voters’ information alongside fraudulent $5 donations to qualify for millions of dollars in public campaign funds…
Debra Milke in August 2026. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)
Putting death row in the rear view mirror: Debra Milke finds her purpose as a ‘survivor’
Thirteen years after she was released from Death Row, Debra Milke was in Phoenix to comfort a friend who is ill.
Milke, 62, had been gone for a long while, trying to escape what her therapist called the source of her pain: Arizona. And though she still feels that drag of depression every day when she wakes up, she forces herself to look to the future, not the past.
“Why do you think the windshield is bigger than the rearview mirror?…
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