‘You show up and get deported anyway’: Migrants with court hearings face an impossible choice https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/053025_migrant_hearings/you-show-up-and-get-deported-anyway-migrants-with-court-hearings-face-impossible-choice/
Federal immigration officials continued targeting people at the Phoenix Immigration Courthouse, surveilling and detaining migrants whose cases were dismissed minutes earlier in ways that appear to be an attempt to minimize attention from both protestors and media.
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Trump administration targets gender-affirming care for kids with provider warnings, billing demands https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/053025_gender_providers/trump-administration-targets-gender-affirming-care-kids-with-provider-warnings-billing-demands/
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services urged health care providers to stop several treatments for children with gender dysphoria, including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries.
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Trump admin knew most Venezuelans deported to Salvadoran prison had no U.S. convictions https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/053025_deportee_convictions/trump-admin-knew-most-venezuelans-deported-salvadoran-prison-had-no-us-convictions/
The Trump administration knew that the vast majority of the 238 Venezuelan immigrants it sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador in mid-March had not been convicted of crimes in the United States before it labeled them as terrorists and deported them.
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Number of immigrants in U.S. without permanent legal status grew to 12.2M between 2020 & 2023 https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/053025_immigrant_growth/number-immigrants-us-without-permanent-legal-status-grew-122m-between-2020-2023/
The Center for Migration Studies Thursday released a report finding the population of people in the United States without permanent legal status increased to 12.2 million in 2023, a number that grew by 2 million from 2020 to 2023.
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La mayoría de los venezolanos deportados a prisiones salvadoreñas no tenían condenas en EE UU https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/053025_deportee_convictions_esp/la-mayoria-de-los-venezolanos-deportados-prisiones-salvadorenas-no-tenian-condenas-en-ee-uu/
Los registros del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional de EE.UU., revelan que más de la mitad de los 238 deportados estaban catalogados sólo como infractores de las leyes de inmigración y no tenían prontuario criminal alguno en Estados Unidos.
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Carter administration takes power: FC Tucson women open home schedule on Sunday with new coach https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/sports/report/053025_fc-tucson/carter-administration-takes-power-fc-tucson-women-open-home-schedule-sunday-with-new-coach/
FC Tucson’s women’s squad will be opening their home season with coach Caylee Carter on Sunday with a match against El Paso Surf. It will be the third of three matches for them in a week.
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Riel drops out Tucson City Council race https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/053025_riel_council_withdraw/riel-drops-out-tucson-city-council-race/
Retired math teacher Theresa Riel has dropped out of the race for the Midtown Ward 6 seat on the Tucson City Council.
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QAnon follower gets 3 years for threatening to ‘execute’ Az Gov. Katie Hobbs https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/052925_qanon_sentencing/qanon-follower-gets-3-years-threatening-execute-az-gov-katie-hobbs/
A Colorado man who wrote online about how he had the right to execute then-Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and made similar threats against Jena Griswold, the Colorado secretary of state, was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison.
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Appeals court allows Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs to remain in place while legal challenge proceeds https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/052925_trump_tariffs/appeals-court-allows-trumps-liberation-day-tariffs-remain-place-while-legal-challenge-proceeds/
President Donald Trump’s global tariffs can remain in place while the courts examine whether the sweeping import taxes that have roiled worldwide trade reach beyond his presidential authority.
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Ruling lets Cochise County throw out local election result over mail-ballot mistake https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/052925_cochise_jail_tax/ruling-lets-cochise-county-throw-out-local-election-result-over-mail-ballot-mistake/
An Arizona judge is allowing Cochise County officials to throw out the results of a local tax election after challengers identified a requirement in state law that they said the county didn’t follow.
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Arizona teachers face personal liability under antisemitism bill covering Israel criticism https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/052925_teacher_antisemitism/arizona-teachers-face-personal-liability-under-antisemitism-bill-covering-israel-criticism/
Republicans and a small group of Democrats in the Arizona Legislature want to let parents sue teachers for teaching antisemitism, but the measure they passed uses a controversial definition of the word that encompasses some criticisms of Israel.
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J.D. Vance’s campaign plane carried anti-immigrant rhetoric. Now it carries shackled deportees. https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/052925_vance_plane/jd-vances-campaign-plane-carried-anti-immigrant-rhetoric-now-it-carries-shackled-deportees/
The Boeing 737 used by J.D. Vance to travel around the nation and speech after speech in which he, like Trump, demonized immigrants and promised to mount a mass deportation effort if elected is now being used to deport immigrants.
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ICE resumes courthouse arrests in Phoenix, but with new tactics amid opposition https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/052925_ice_arrests/ice-resumes-courthouse-arrests-phoenix-but-with-new-tactics-amid-opposition/
Immigration agents have resumed arresting people who show up to immigration hearings, pulling over and detaining a mother and her children in Phoenix on Wednesday morning, a policy that speeds up deportations while at the same time sidestepping rights to a court hearing.
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Tucson doc: SOAR Act is more than a policy fix—it’s a public health necessity https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/052925_soar_reform_op/tucson-doc-soar-act-more-than-policy-fix-its-public-health-necessity/
The Supplemental Oxygen Access Reform Act, a bipartisan bill introduced in Congress that offers long-overdue updates to how oxygen therapy is provided and reimbursed, is more than a policy fix—it’s a public health necessity.
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Yume Japanese Gardens to reopen as part of Tucson Botanical Gardens next year https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/052925_yume_gardens/yume-japanese-gardens-reopen-as-part-tucson-botanical-gardens-next-year/
Yume Japanese Gardens, a quiet oasis in Midtown Tucson, will reopen early next year as part of the Tucson Botanical Gardens, a block to the north.
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In Arizona county that backed Trump, conflicted feelings about cutting Medicaid https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/052925_gila_medicaid/in-arizona-county-that-backed-trump-conflicted-feelings-cutting-medicaid/
Gila County is a conservative place — almost 70% of voters went for President Donald Trump in November - and as congressional Republicans consider plans to cut more than $700 billion from Medicaid, the debate over the program hits close to home for many Globe residents.
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Federal judges side with Arizona in striking down tariffs imposed by President Trump https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/052925_tariff_block/federal-judges-side-with-arizona-striking-down-tariffs-imposed-by-president-trump/
New tariffs imposed on nearly all imports into the U.S. since April were struck down when three federal judges in the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled ruled in favor of Arizona and 11 other states in their suit, as well as several businesses who filed a tandem suit.
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After being told it must return wrongly deported man, Trump admin now says courts have no authority https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/052925_trump_deportations/after-being-told-it-must-return-wrongly-deported-man-trump-admin-now-says-courts-have-no-authority/
The Trump administration is arguing a Maryland federal court lacks the authority to require the return of wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia because he’s in prison in El Salvador — though the U.S. Supreme Court has directed administration officials to “facilitate” his return.
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Advocates begin Migrant Trail to 'bear witness' to deaths along U.S.-Mexico border https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/052825_migrant_trail/advocates-begin-migrant-trail-bear-witness-deaths-along-us-mexico-border/
Over the next week, 43 people will walk the Migrant Trail along a remote two-lane highway in the Arizona desert to "bear witness to migrant deaths in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and oppose decades of inhumane border policies."
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This time they mean it: Cutting taxes on the wealthy will really help middle class this time https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/052825_ciscomani_taxes_op/this-time-they-mean-it-cutting-taxes-wealthy-will-really-help-middle-class-this-time/
If there's one thing the last 45 years of the "supply side" economic hypothesis have shown, it's that making the rich richer does nothing for the standard of living of hard-working taxpayers.
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