Border Security

Customs and Border Protection says multi-agency operation with Stonegarden law enforcement partners targeted human, drug smuggling, disrupted organized illegal activity.

The American Civil Liberties Union is dropping its bid to block enforcement of a new law that lets state and local police arrest some border crossers.

In this week's Arizona Edition, business owners in Los Algodones, Mexico say they're seeing less winter visitors this year. Also, we take you on the Martin Luther King Jr. march in Yuma. Finally, the Crane School District remembers a school board member who passed away last year.

The Democratic governor formally asked Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for the money in a letter sent Thursday.

The New York Times reports Defense Department officials say migrants will be temporarily detained by troops in a portion of land along the U.S. Mexico border near Yuma.

The "Se Busca Información" or "Information Wanted" campaign will place posters with 15 individuals wanted for crimes including homicide and narcotics smuggling on both sides of the border and online.

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs on Tuesday signed an executive order she said will direct three state departments to create a joint task force to expand border security in the four border counties including Yuma.

State lawmakers are looking to immunize police officers who disable drones they suspect are being used for drug smuggling.

The question of whether Arizonans get to vote on what's being billed by Republicans as a border security measure could depend on whether a judge believes that enhanced penalties for selling fentanyl have anything to do with provisions about crossing the border illegally or whether someone not here legally gets a library card.

City of Yuma Mayor Doug Nicholls discusses President Joe Biden's recent executive order to secure the southern border, HCR 2060, the city budget, and the upcoming election.