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For-profit immigration detention expands as Trump accelerates deportation plans tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
The Trump administration has largely turned to the for-profit, private prison industry to reopen or repurpose shuttered and aging facilities to dramatically expand the nation’s capacity for detaining immigrants who do not have legal authorization to be in the United States.

Taking the fork: Local governments struggle with uncertainty in a time of budgeting tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
The city of Tucson and Pima County are quite simply, screwed by lacking clairvoyance about the economy. Will 2026 be a horror show or Golden Age? So far, local officials appear more than happy to consider the upside. The downside is right next to it and can't be ignored.

Both sides claim victory as Arizona fetal personhood lawsuit dismissed tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
A legal challenge against an Arizona law that gives fetuses rights has been dropped, putting the law back on the books despite an overwhelming majority of voters who agreed last year to make abortion a constitutional right in the Grand Canyon State.

Trump Is spending billions on border security. Some residents living there lack basic resources. tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Although billions of dollars flow into the majority-Latino communities along the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border, many remain among the poorest places in the nation, a disparity between the size of governments’ investment there and how little it’s reflected in the quality of life.

Lawmakers fear AI data centers will drive up residents’ power bills tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
Proposals in state legislatures seek to ensure that data centers don’t result in increased rates for other electric customers, but those goals are also under attack from President Donald Trump, with policies to block enforcement of all state climate policies and boost coal production.

Hobbs vows to veto all bills until disability funding crisis resolved tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Arizona’s Democratic governor has promised to veto every piece of legislation that Republicans send to her until the legislature passes a “reasonable, negotiated” funding bill to prevent the state’s Division of Developmental Disabilities from going broke next month.

Az militia founder wrongly identified as ICE agent in viral window-smashing video tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Social media posts falsely claimed a man with connections to Arizona and far-right militias — Michael "Lewis Arthur" Meyer — was the ICE agent who smashed a car's window with an axe to apprehend a Guatemalan immigrant. But that man has not been hired by ICE and is currently in Oklahoma spreading conspiracy theories there.

In a ‘complete disregard for science,’ RFK Jr. declares autism ‘preventable’ tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the department will shift its research into autism toward potential environmental causes, though he declined to say the response if certain industries or pollutants were found responsible.

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