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Border Patrol now targeting legal immigrants for ‘carry your papers’ law in southern Arizona

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. For the first time in Arizona, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are using a Cold War-era law to ...
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Medicaid fraud targeting Indigenous communities continues despite AHCCCS reforms

Nearly three years after Arizona uncovered an unprecedented $2.5 billion Medicaid fraud scandal that targeted Indigenous communities, sober living program operators are still recruiting vulnerable ...
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Despite broad support for abortion access in their districts, GOP lawmakers push new restrictions

Rebecca Gau has considered herself a Republican all her life. Raised outside Washington, D.C., during the Reagan era, she embraced the party’s traditional positions of lowering taxes, supporting small ...
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Does Arizona rank in the top 10 for data centers nationwide?

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. Arizona has 164 data centers statewide, outpacing much of the country and ranking 7th nationally, according ...
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Did the University of Arizona spend over $800,000 on surveillance cameras accessible by federal law enforcement?

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. In February 2025, the University of Arizona approved an $870,000, five-year contract with Flock Safety to ...
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Arizona’s Hualapai Valley now a ‘de facto transfer basin’ for out-of-state investors and corporate farms

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. When controversial Las Vegas developer Jim Rhodes abandoned plans for a sprawling community near the ...
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Are federal cuts reducing domestic violence resources in Arizona?

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. The Department of Justice in 2025 has terminated hundreds of grants for domestic violence prevention, victim ...
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Arizona colleges face ‘devastating impact’ after Trump slashes grant funds to minority-serving institutions

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. Ten community colleges and universities in Arizona will lose at least $13 million after President Donald ...
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Have ICE arrests surged in Arizona since Trump took office?

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests in Arizona were up 72% in the first half of 2025 compared ...
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Is Phoenix’s 2025 homicide rate twice as high as New York City’s?

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. From January through June 2025, Phoenix’s homicide rate was twice as high as New York City’s, according to ...
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Was a Marana prison sold to a private company that runs ICE facilities?

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. In July 2025, Arizona sold a former Marana prison to Management & Training Corporation (MTC). The company ...
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Tribal water settlement aims to repair generations of exclusion

Guiding a Toyota pickup along a narrow dirt road south of Second Mesa, rancher Robinson Honani gestures toward a patchwork of farm plots tucked into the dusty terrain of the Hopi Reservation, perched ...