Migrants across the U.S. and Arizona faced the spectre of ICE raids under the new administration of President Donald Trump.
The administration has mobilized military units to head to the southern border and increased immigration raids in cities. What to know in Arizona.
Trump’s mass deportation plans, including the Laken Riley Act, which awaits his signature, will be very expensive to implement across the country. Trump wants to target every single undocumented immigrant in the U.S., estimated at 11 million people, and would need assistance from local and state law enforcement.
At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citizenship during immigration raids since Wednesday,
Federal officials touted hundreds of arrests as immigration enforcement ramped up across the county, including in Arizona.On Sunday, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Phoenix Division posted several photos on X (formerly Twitter) about its assistance with immigration efforts in conjunction with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and other Department of Justice partners.
Cities and sheriff's offices will be on the front lines of enforcing stricter immigration policies from the state and new Trump administration.
Arizona's largest high school district has made clear that it will not voluntarily assist with President Donald Trump's immigration plans by declaring itself a "safe zone" for all students ...
Puente Arizona, a grassroots group that advocates ... The hotline is intended to help warn people of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol activity, bat down false rumors ...
Arizona state Senator Theresa Hatathlie, who is Diné/Navajo, told the outlet she received a report from a Navajo woman who reported that she and seven other Indigenous people were detained at a work site in Scottsdale, Arizona, and questioned for hours without their phones or any other way to contact their families or other officials.
In response, U.S. Border Patrol agents stopped releasing migrants after processing them. Pima County officials said this sudden halt has cut off the flow of asylum-seekers into the Ajo Road and Drexel Road shelters.
ICE has been directed by Trump administration officials to ramp up arrests from several hundred daily to at least 1,200 to 1,500, according to the Washington Post. As part of that daily quota, local ICE field offices have been instructed to make 75 arrests a day, The Post reported.
According to Navajo Nation officials, at least 15 Navajo citizens have reported being questioned, detained and asked to produce proof of citizenship by federal officials ring immigration raids in New Mexico and Arizona over the past week.