Hundreds held a vigil on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2025, in from the ICE office in Phoenix to honor Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old woman who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis. 🎥Tim Agne/KJZZ

The United States should not be a “predator force.” We are not brute animals scrabbling in the dirt for sustenance, we are human beings who can stand side by side with friends and allies.

The woman killed by ICE was Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old who was the mother of a 4-year old child whose father already died a few years ago. The Star Tribune talked to her mother. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

This is the kind of thing that the Founders explicitly designed our constitution to prevent; a president who has seized wealth for his own benefit without any intervention from Congress, which in our system is supposed to be the holder of the power of the purse.

Awful news: razor wire is ”spreading like cancer” along the Arizona-Mexico border. This stuff really does not prevent illegal crossings, and it is a nightmare for wildlife (and unlucky humans). A needless cause of suffering and death, IMO By @emilybregel.bsky.social tucson.com/news/local/s...

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is challenging regulators' approval of electricity service agreement for Project Blue data centers.

One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

MacCALLUM: You have about 100,000 dying from drug overdoses, most of those drugs from from Venezuela and other places CROW: That's actually not true. The majority of the deaths by drugs in America are the result of meth and fentanyl. Almost none of that comes from Venezuela

Environmentalists are raising the alarm about border agents' increased use of concertina wire along the AZ border, not only atop the wall, but also on the desert floor. Advocates say it poses grave risks to wildlife, while doing little to stop migrants' crossings. @tucson.com tinyurl.com/yc68nw2v

Tucson protests attack on Venezuela! www.kold.com/2026/01/04/p...

Immigrant-hating Stephen Miller talks about Americans being "first to harness the atom." But the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was conducted by a team led by Italian immigrant Enrico Fermi, who didn't become a U.S. citizen until a year and a half later.

“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,” is what a US Education Department spokesperson wrote to one of our reporters, @megomatz.bsky.social, after she repeatedly tried to get comment from the department and its officials. My column on the condemnation of good journalism.

“When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of ‘gold standard’ reputation for a single week of political quiet.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

The executive producer of “60 Minutes” said she “ultimately had to comply” with CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss and pull a segment on the Trump administration’s deportations, according to a partial transcript of the meeting obtained by The Post.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.

ICYMI

A dozen House lawmakers filed suit earlier this year in response to an ICE memo requiring members of Congress to provide at least a week’s notice if they plan to visit a site where detainees are held.

Agents with ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations have been posted at three Nogales ports of entry for much of the past two weeks, questioning some and at times checking immigration documents as travelers try to leave the U.S., locals say. @tucson.com tucson.com/news/local/s...

Here's a quilt of Volume 4 of the Epstein document dump. Gives you a 10,000 foot view of the redactions. that's 2,704 docs.

Plans are moving forward to build new border wall in several parts of Arizona, and we need your help to oppose this destructive plan. The Trump admin is proposing 19 miles of new primary border wall and 42 miles of “double wall." To learn more and comment: ow.ly/BaB750XKsy1

Chavarria, a U.S. citizen, was held at the airport "for more than four hours and released only after he finally agreed to let the agents search his smartphone, tablet, and laptop computer. The agents...informed him that he had no Fourth Amendment right to resist." @pacificlegal.bsky.social is suing.

A reminder that most Americans who are life-long citizens have nothing OTHER than a Real ID to prove their citizenship. This is CBP’s chief enforcer saying that ID doesn’t count.

Big news from the Tucson Festival of Books. The headliner this year will be Salman Rushdie! tucson.com/news/local/a...

So the new reporting is that DHS has decided to go back to a primary focus on targeted enforcement that existed before the late May orders from Stephen Mille to ramp up numbers or else. Quite frankly, I’ll believe it when I see it. And also at this point the public struggles to tell the difference.

Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.

Syrian national Kamel Maklad has been released from Eloy Detention Center after prevailing in his habeas corpus petition. The petition challenged the constitutionality of his continued incarceration, one year after a judge granted him witholding of removal to Syria. tucson.com/news/local/s...

Today in Tucson: On the heels of a large-scale enforcement operation targeting Taco Giro in Southern Arizona, federal agents executed another search warrant in Tucson Wednesday morning at a trucking company on West Miracle Mile. @tucson.com tucson.com/news/local/b...

My story about Friday's HSI operation at numerous Taco Giro restaurants. Fed officials say it was the result of a years-long investigation into immigration & tax violations. No criminal charges announced, but 46 people arrested for civil immigration violations, ICE said. tucson.com/news/local/b...

Check out Star photographer Mamta Popat's powerful photos of yesterday's chaotic clash between anti-ICE protesters and federal agents, amid a homeland security operation at Taco Giro on Grande Avenue. @tucson.com tucson.com/news/local/c...

Border Patrol agents raided a migrant-aid camp near Arivaca last week, entering private structures without a warrant and arresting three people who were receiving aid there, volunteers with the group No More Deaths said. tucson.com/news/local/b...

Let's put these 2 headlines from this afternoon together. They “finish off” suspected cocaine traffickers hanging helplessly off boats in the open ocean. But an _actual_ cocaine trafficker who just happens to be a conservative political elite gets a pardon.

Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.

The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution. In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:

🚨: UA to allegedly lose approximately $4 million after 834 Chinese students quit their degrees at one of the micro-campuses in China, according to the executive vice dean of the Arizona College of Technology at the Hebei University of Technology. tucson.com/news/local/s...

The University of Arizona's sudden decision to close its microcampuses in China is costing them millions of dollars in tuition and harming its students, who have left in droves and want their money back. @preranawrites.bsky.social reports. tucson.com/news/local/s...

The death toll now stands at 83. The U.S. government has extrajudicially killed 83 people. www.wola.org/2025/11/mari...

"ProPublica’s reporting debunks the idea of a ’Tren de Aragua complex' taken over by a horde of terrorists. We found no criminal convictions for 18 of the 21 Venezuelans we identified. Three of the men had been charged with offenses ... but in each case the charges were dropped."

He got a doctorate in physical therapy and worked in Tucson as a PT for 23 years. But he had sold $140 worth of LSD when he was 18, so he became ICE bait. Now he's been deported to Laos, the country he left at age 6. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports. tucson.com/news/local/s...

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Undocumented immigrants in Tucson say they’ve been balancing fear with continuing to live their lives. “If I’m gonna lead this life afraid, it’s not living,” said Anabel, 36. “I have to live. I have to work. ... I can’t stop my life and my kids’ life.” @tucson.com tucson.com/news/local/s...

A good man. "Vone, who has a doctorate in physical therapy, has worked in the field for more than 20 yrs. He's known by friends and clients as a devoted, talented caregiver ... That was even the case at Eloy, where he said he helped treat fellow detainees who were struggling with mobility."

In interviews in villages on Venezuela's northeastern coast, from which some of the boats departed, residents and relatives said the dead men had been running drugs but were not narco-terrorists. n.pr/484kIIb

For Star subscribers: The death of three UA students in a crosswalk was a shocking example of what's been going on for years. About 100 people have died in traffic

Undocumented immigrants in Tucson say they’ve been balancing fear with continuing to live their lives. “If I’m gonna lead this life afraid, it’s not living,” said Anabel, 36. “I have to live. I have to work. ... I can’t stop my life and my kids’ life.” @tucson.com tucson.com/news/local/s...

A longtime Tucson physical therapist has been deported to Laos, the country he fled with family at age 6 in the 1970s. Vone Phrommany, 53, said he's arrived at a distant relative's home following five days of exhausting travel, while shackled at the wrists and ankles. tucson.com/news/local/s...

The Trump administration alleges the boats targeted by recent U.S. strikes were being operated by narco-terrorists and cartel members. The AP identified four of the men who were on the boats—and found the truth is far more nuanced.

NEW: Even the FBI thinks unidentified masked ICE agents is a bad idea. @dell.bsky.social and @carolinehaskins.bsky.social with the scoop. No paywall bc FOIA: www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.) www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...