As economy falters, more Chinese migrants take perilous journey to the U.S. border to seek asylum
Chinese asylum-seekers who spoke to The Associated Press, as well as observers, say they are seeking to escape an increasingly repressive political climate and bleak economic prospects.
Border security: Cochise County Sheriff announces Operation Safe Streets II
The new operation was launched in reaction to Cartels that are recruiting drivers as young as 13 years old to pick up and drive migrants from the border to other parts of the state.
Record border crossings seen at U.S.-Mexico border
The number of people crossing into the U.S. from the southern border has hit an all-time high. Last month, Customs and Border Protection saw more than 260,000 southern border crossings, which is a record. FOX's Mills Hayes has the latest.
Arizona tribe protests decision not to prosecute Border Patrol agents for fatal shooting
The Tohono O’odham Nation in southern Arizona on Friday blasted the decision by the U.S. Attorney’s Office not to prosecute Border Patrol agents who shot and killed a member of the tribe after they were summoned by tribal police.
Alabama Gov. Ivey sending 275 National Guard troops to Mexico border: ‘Every state has become a border state'
Ivey is the latest Republican governor to send National Guard soldiers to the U.S.-Mexico border amid pleas from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
Amid restart of border wall construction in Texas, some Arizonans express their worries
Some in Arizona are expressing their concerns, following a decision by the Biden Administration to resume construction of a section of the border wall in Texas.
'Our border communities are struggling': Gov. Hobbs visits DC to discuss migrant crisis
The Tucson sector has been the busiest section across the entire Southwest border when it comes to migrant encounters.
10,000 migrants a day head to US border, Mexico's president says
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says the surge of migrants reaching Mexico’s northern border with the United States is partly due to about 6,000 migrants per day crossing into Mexico from Guatemala over the past week.
Nightly Roundup: Arrest made in Tupac's murder, man shot and killed by Mesa Police
From a long-awaited breakthrough in the murder case of rap legend Tupac Shakur, to a deadly officer-involved shooting in a Mesa neighborhood, here's some of the top stories on FOX10Phoenix.com for Friday, September 29, 2023.
Cochise County deputy hurt while trying to stop smuggling suspect, sheriff says
The deputy reportedly fell at least 15 feet while trying to deploy spikes in an effort to stop the suspect, according to Sheriff Mark Dannels.
President Biden criticized by some for not visiting the border during Arizona trip
As President Joe Biden makes another visit to Arizona, he's drawing criticism from various officials for appearing to not make time to visit the southernmost part of the state to see the cities impacted by the growing border crisis.
Immigration attorney urges migrants to use CBP One app amid surge in border crossings
As a surge of migrant crossing along the U.S.-Mexico border continues, an app that was developed to help ease the demand on certain resources related to immigration is not being used by some of the migrants because of a number of issues.
Biden administration offers nearly 500K Venezuelan migrants legal status
Under intense political pressure from fellow Democrats, the Biden administration has announced it is granting protection to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who are already in the country.
Tucson sector sees 2K illegal border crossings a day
Border crossings in southern Arizona are up and with facilities over capacity, migrants are now being released onto the streets. Border Patrol says they're seeing up to 2,000 illegal crossings per day in the Tucson sector alone. FOX 10's Stephanie Bennett reports.
Border communities feeling the impact from a surge of migrants
Amid a surge in the number of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, communities along the border are trying to deal with the surge, but they do not have the resources needed.
Influx of asylum seekers: Arizona sheriff seeks state, federal help
Sheriff Mark Dannels of Cochise County said that the rural area doesn’t have shelters or other infrastructure to attend to the needs of migrants, many of them from faraway countries in western Africa and southeast Asia.
Smugglers are steering migrants into the remote Arizona desert, posing new Border Patrol challenges
During a recent visit, Associated Press journalists saw close to 100 migrants arrive in just four hours at the border wall near Lukeville, Arizona, inside Organ Pipe, as temperatures hit 110 degrees Fahrenheit. The next morning, several hundred more migrants lined up along the wall to turn themselves in.
Feds to drop Arizona lawsuit over shipping containers at border
The federal government is ready to drop a lawsuit against Arizona over storage containers that were put up last year at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Illegal crossings on the US-Mexico border rose in July but were still down from 2022
Arrests for illegally crossing the U.S. border from Mexico soared 33% from June to July, according to U.S. government figures, reversing course after a plunge that followed the introduction of new asylum restrictions.
Barrels of drinking water for migrants walking through Texas have disappeared
Barrels of life-saving water that a human rights group strategically placed for wayward migrants traveling on foot have vanished.