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28 people charged with violating new 'National Defense Area' along New Mexico border tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Federal prosecutors in New Mexico charged 28 people on Monday for crossing into the new 170-square-mile "National Defense Area" created earlier this month by the Trump administration. The president said he was permitting U.S. troops to detain people from coming to the U.S. from Mexico.

Trump Customs & Border Protection nominee probed on 2010 death in custody tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld
President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead U.S. Customs and Border Protection told the U.S. Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday that he would focus on the agency’s workforce to manage trade and border crossings, while the committee’s top Democrat accused him of covering up a 2010 death at a CBP facility he oversaw.

Arizona GOP passes ‘impossible’ voting bill requiring 4,000 new polling locations tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor
Republican lawmakers passed legislation that would cost Arizona counties tens of millions of dollars every election year and would force them to attempt to find 4,000 new voting locations, something that county election officials described as impossible.

This week's Nogales Int'l Film Festival is for reel lovers tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report
Local student-made, national and international films will be screened at the U.S.-Mexico border wall for the Nogales International Film Festival 2025. The films will be projected onto both sides of the border wall and are free to view for the public.

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