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You are here: Home / Immigration / Drug Smugglers Tunnel Under Border Wall April 1, 2020 at 3:56 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment “A large haul of drugs, including opioids, methamphetamine and cocaine, being smuggled from Mexico to California was seized from a cross-border tunnel equipped with…

AJO, Arizona — Motels, mobile home camps, and Airbnbs in this small Arizona border town are full up. Work crews stream into eateries for takeout orders. License plates on trucks parked outside the crowded laundromat come from as far away as Alaska.Around the country, some states have cut back on…

Dairon Elisondo Rojas, a doctor who works for Global Response Management and is also an asylum-seeker from Cuba, warns those in the refugee camp in Matamoros, Mexico, about the dangers of the novel coronavirus and offers tips about preventing its spread on March 18. Ivan Flores for Foreign Policy Dispatch…

March 26, 2020 | 4:55pm Enlarge Image Cars passing between Nogales, Mexico and Arizona. AP Mexican protesters have blocked the Mexico-bound lanes at the main crossing in the twin border cities of Nogales to demand their government conduct strict coronavirus testing on Americans and other travelers entering the country Protesters…

A border wall divides Nogales, Arizona from the Mexican state of SonoraMexican protesters have shut a US southern border crossing amid fears that untested American travellers will spread coronavirus.Residents in Sonora, south of the US state of Arizona, have promised to block traffic into Mexico for a second day after…

Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For more coverage, see our coronavirus hubTIJUANA AND San Diego are rumbustious siblings. The San Ysidro border crossing,…

As fears of the coronavirus spreading like wildfire inside detention facilities mount, inmates are demanding more supplies like soap and toilet paper. ProPublica: ICE Detainee Says Migrants Are Going On A Hunger Strike For Soap In an audio recording obtained by ProPublica, an immigrant held in U.S. Immigration and Customs…

sheri crider, “Cibola Detention Center, Five years, $150mil, Silence still equals death” (2018), gouache and enamel on paper (courtesy the University of Arizona Museum of Art)TUCSON, Arizona — Amidst our sociopolitical environment of hostility, racism, dehumanization, and lack of compassion, there is an ongoing necessity to speak truth to power,…

New York Times: How the Virus Got Out  —  The most extensive travel restrictions to stop an outbreak in human history haven't been enough.  We analyzed the movements of hundreds of millions of people to show why.  —  It seems simple: Stop travel, stop the virus from spreading around the…

Goldman Sachs has made a huge change to its GDP forecast. Coronavirus closures have prompted the investment bank to slash its Q2 expectations to -24% before a huge rebound in Q3 and Q4. Could the forecast be linked to ex-Goldman Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin’s efforts to coax Republican lawmakers into…