Customs and Border Protection, the agency that oversees the Border Patrol, has carried out more than 630,000 expulsions in the past year. As The Intercept detailed in an investigation published last weekend, Border Patrol agents have used Title 42 as a basis to drop asylum-seekers in Mexican border towns in the middle of the night a practice that’s been largely prohibited for years under agreements between the U.S. and Mexico. The agents have also relied on Title 42 to expel individuals and families through remote ports that were previously not used for removals, into communities dominated by organized crime and without transportation services. The law is under challenge in the courts, with critics arguing that what’s been presented as a public health measure is in fact being used as a means to deny people their rights under domestic and international law. Hundreds of thousands of travelers continue to pass through the nation’s ports every day; it’s asylum-seekers and vir
Arizona Attorney General files suit challenging Biden administration immigration policies
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has filed the lawsuit as the federal government sends money to Pima County to cover housing costs for asylum seekers. Author: Adriana Loya (12NEWS) Updated: 5:42 PM MST April 15, 2021
PHOENIX Migrant encounters at Arizona’s U.S.-Mexico border increased 60 percent from February to March, causing the state’s attorney general to file a federal lawsuit challenging President Biden’s immigration policy, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to send money to Pima county to cover the costs to care and house asylum-seekers.
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s latest lawsuit seeks for the border wall construction to resume, to halt the processing of asylum-seekers, and to reinstate the “public charge” that penalizes migrants that request public benefits in the U.S.
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Immigrant Groups Sue Trump Administration Over “Last Ditch” Rule Change
arrow A 2018 protest in lower Manhattan against ICE, family separations and US border policies. M Stan Reaves/Shutterstock
With just over a week to go before the end of the Trump Administration, immigration advocates filed a federal lawsuit in the Washington, D.C. district court against a Department of Justice rule they claim would create “devastating” new barriers to those with cases in immigration court.
The rule, which was announced in December, is set to take effect on Friday. It is being challenged by five immigration advocacy organizations around the country, including Brooklyn Defender Services.
Joy Baynes and Lauren Dasse
 The Womenâs Foundation of Southern Arizona has chosen two recipients for this yearâs Laura Penny Community Impact AwardsâJoy Baynes and Lauren Dasse.
Baynes, a nurse-practitioner at El Rio Community Health Center, was recognized for her work in healthcare with an emphasis on at-risk youth and her dedication to womenâs reproductive rights.
She is responsible for developing El Rioâs Reproductive Health Access Project and when Baynes gives her two cents, itâs worth $38 in change.Â
âJoy is passionately compassionate, clinically excellent, and a tireless advocate for the marginalized and disenfranchised in our community,â wrote Joy Mockbee, who nominated Baynes for the award.Â