Street-level violence prevention programs have been decimated by Trump just ahead of summer https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/053125_violence_prevention/street-level-violence-prevention-programs-have-been-decimated-by-trump-just-ahead-summer/
Community-based violence intervention programs nationwide have long worked alongside law enforcement officers to deescalate conflict, but the Trump admin last month pulled roughly $500 million in remaining funds across a range of programs, just as summer is approaching.
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Tech, defense & support services companies make millions off new ICE contracts https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/053125_ice_contracts/tech-defense-support-services-companies-make-millions-off-new-ice-contracts/
Companies are rushing to secure government contracts as the Trump administration ramps up its spending on ICE to reach its deportation goals and the House approved a spending bill that sets aside $175 billion for immigration enforcement – about 22 times ICE’s annual budget.
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Hey 19: FC Tucson devastates visitors from Coachella by Hardcastle-esque margin https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/sports/report/053125_fc-tucson/hey-19-fc-tucson-devastates-visitors-from-coachella-by-hardcastle-esque-margin/
FC Tucson defeated visiting Coachella SC at Kino North Stadium by a 19-0 margin on Saturday night. No, that is not a typo, nor did you accidentally read an article about the other football: 19 goals.
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Trump’s tariffs are a tax on Arizona families and farmers https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/053025_hernandez_op/trumps-tariffs-are-tax-arizona-families-and-farmers/
Donald Trump’s push to recklessly impose tariffs should alarm every Arizonan, especially those of us who depend on trade to lower our costs of everyday groceries & goods, and to fuel our small businesses.
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U.S. solar manufacturers lag skyrocketing market demand https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/053025_solar_manufacturing_op/us-solar-manufacturers-lag-skyrocketing-market-demand/
U.S. consumer demand for renewable energy continues to grow, with more solar panel capacity installed in 2024 than in 2023, which saw more than in 2022. But U.S. trade policy is in flux, and high tariffs have been imposed on imported solar panels, which may cause shortages.
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Supreme Court lets Trump slash humanitarian status for over half a million migrants https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/053025_migrant_status/supreme-court-lets-trump-slash-humanitarian-status-over-half-million-migrants/
The Supreme Court ruled to revoke the legal status of over half a million migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who are temporarily in the U.S. for humanitarian needs, boosting President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan.
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‘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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