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Problematic even before the pandemic devastated Arizona, participation in 287(g) agreements now carries deadly consequences for people in the jails, employees and people detained alike, as well as surrounding communities.

ICE's failure to decrease the number of people in their facilities has created a crisis akin to a tinderbox, ready to explode.

The suffering inside ICE detention facilities is heart-wrenching, wrong and unnecessary. ICE's own policies allow them to use their discretion to release migrants on humanitarian parole in cases where detaining a person is causing them harm and danger.

We cannot continue to treat vulnerable women, men, and children with indignity.

Prop. 205 is named “Tucson Families Free and Together” because that’s exactly what this historic initiative aims to do. If passed, Prop. 205 will make Tucson a safer city for all its residents. It will keep families together, communities strong and rebuild the public’s trust in local police.

By making a state-issued ID an absolute requirement to enroll a student, San Luis High School is effectively shutting its doors to the most vulnerable student populations.

On the morning of June 18, when I heard the cries of children wailing and pleading to see their mothers and fathers, my heart was filled with anger and sadness. I couldn’t understand how our nation, in the name of “security,” was subjecting innocent migrant children to severe trauma.

Due to a broad misunderstanding of Arizona’s flagrantly anti-immigrant law, SB 1070, David Green’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated when he was unconstitutionally held so an officer could conduct an immigration check.

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said it’s up to local schools whether they report undocumented students to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). She’s wrong, again.