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Border/immigration correspondent for The Associated Press, based in Arizona.

Phoenix, AZ
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    Feb 21

    Greyhound says it will stop allowing Border Patrol agents without a warrant to board its buses to conduct immigration checks. The reported last week on a leaked Border Patrol memo requiring company permission for the searches.

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  2. Feb 21

    ALERT: Greyhound to stop allowing immigration checks on buses

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  3. Feb 21

    Bernie Sanders briefed by U.S. officials that Russia is trying to help his presidential campaign

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  4. Feb 21

    I discovered the wide use of voice messages instead of texts when I was in Mexico last week! It's so weird! But now I kind of like it?

    My family in Mexico loves, LOVES sending voice messages on WhatsApp. I just end up playing back recordings and analyzing my Spanish
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  5. Feb 21

    Arizona governor pulls immigration plan amid business revolt

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  6. Feb 21

    Nicaragua’s last newspaper dared to criticize the government. Then it lost its ink and paper

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    Feb 21

    Mexico extradites son of Jalisco cartel to face US charges (from )

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  8. Feb 21

    🎂🎂🎂Chespirito on the google doodle, a happy Friday indeed! 🎂🎂🎂

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  9. Feb 20

    Las Taqueras: 3 women in the male-dominated world of tacos

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  10. Feb 20

    Rising rents are forcing Phoenix area workers into homelessness via

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  11. Feb 19

    6. This is in my story, but in case you missed it, the ruling applies only to the Tucson Sector, which has 8 facilities. But we know there are similar, if not worse conditions in many sectors on the southern border. Remember this?

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  12. Feb 19

    5. ...face conditions of confinement in CBP stations, Tucson Sector, which are more restrictive than they will face upon commitment to either a civil or criminal detention facility"

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  13. Feb 19

    4. "A presumption, however, exists that the challenged conditions of confinement are punitive because in the context of CBP operations, there is no legitimate governmental interest for the extended detentions currently occurring... and the Plaintiffs, who are civil detainees...

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  14. Feb 19

    3. This is notable: "There is no evidence in this case of any intent by CBP to create punitive conditions of confinement. The evidence reflects that CBP has stretched existing resources to provide the best conditions of confinement available under the circumstances," Bury wrote

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  15. Feb 19

    2. Judge David C. Bury hinted at this when the trial closed last month. In his ruling today, he wrote that conditions in BP facilities, which are supposed to be short term and considered civil (not criminal) detention, are WORSE than some prisons and jails

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  16. Feb 19

    1. Today, nearly 5 years after advocacy groups sued the U.S. Border Patrol over conditions in Arizona holding facilities_ surely you've heard the term hieleras_ a judge ruled migrants' favor, saying conditions are punitive and violate the constitution

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  17. Feb 19

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  18. Feb 19

    PHOENIX — US judge sides with migrants in lawsuit against conditions at some Border Patrol facilities in Arizona

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  20. Feb 14

    He showed me a lawless border town. Then masked gunmen killed him in front of his family.

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