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Shooting at Arizona neighborhood gathering kills 2, wounds 5

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FILE - Two hydraulic excavators operated by AshBritt Management & Logistics remove shipping containers Tuesday morning, Jan. 3, 2023, that were used to fill a gap in the border fence between the United States and Mexico near Morelos Dam along the South Yuma Levee Road between County 8th Street and County 8 1/2 Street in Yuma, Ariz. Former Gov. Doug Ducey’s border barrier of shipping containers has been largely dismantled just in time for a new Democratic administration, costing tens of millions of dollars over just a few months while they were set up and taken down again. (Randy Hoeft/The Yuma Sun via AP)

Arizona’s shipping container wall on border is coming down

By Anita Snow - Associated Press

The disintegration of America stems from Biden’s border

By U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs

Biden’s open borders fuel America’s deadly fentanyl crisis

By U.S. Sen. Rick Scott

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich speaks during his Thursday, June 2, 2022 visit to the Yuma Sun in Yuma, Ariz. Donald Trump on Thursday endorsed investor Blake Masters in the crowded Republican Senate primary in Arizona, siding with another acolyte of tech investor Peter Thiel after the former president's support helped “Hillbilly Elegy” author JD Vance secure the GOP nomination in Ohio. Trump, in a statement announcing his decision, called Masters a “great modern-day thinker” and slammed Masters' chief rival, Brnovich, for doing too little to promote Trump’s lies about the 2020 White House election he lost. (Randy Hoeft/The Yuma Sun via AP)

Arizona women want sentencing in ballot fraud case delayed

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A migrant man from Colombia holds his baby daughter after crossing into the United States near the end of a border wall Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022, near Yuma, Ariz. A border wall with Mexico isn't the issue it was during Donald Trump's presidency but plans for more barriers in Yuma, Ariz., is a reminder of obstacles that the federal government always faces: difficulty working on tribal lands and private property. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Containers are no hindrance for migrants on Arizona border

By Elliot Spagat - Associated Press

In this Thursday, June 10, 2021, photo, a pair of migrant families from Brazil pass through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States after crossing from Mexico to Yuma, Ariz., to seek asylum. Border officials got the go-ahead Thursday, July 28, 2022, to fill four remaining gaps in the U.S.-Mexico wall near the southern Arizona community of Yuma for safety reasons. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia) **FILE**

U.S. to fill border wall gaps in Arizona for safety reasons

By Anita Snow - Associated Press

A U.S. government-built section of border wall snakes through the Sonoran Desert just west of the San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge, separating Mexico, left, and the United States, Dec. 9, 2020, in Douglas, Ariz. A prosecutor told jurors in closing arguments at a criminal trial, Tuesday, May 31, 2022, that there is overwhelming evidence that organizers of a &quot;We Build The Wall&quot; campaign to raise money for a wall along the U.S. southern border defrauded investors. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

‘Glam migration:’ The illegal immigrant wore Versace

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 8, 2020, file photo, crews construct a section of border wall in San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge in Douglas, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Local Arizona officials expect tent-like migrant facilities

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A girl waves to a young man watching from Mexican territory who said he was her cousin, as a group of Honduran asylum seekers is taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents after the group crossed the U.S. border wall into San Diego, California, seen from Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Biden catch-and-release strategy threatens communities by ignoring coronavirus precautions

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this May 23, 2019, photo, is a "Welcome to Yuma" sign in Yuma, Ariz. Overwhelmed border officials have started releasing migrants into Arizona's rural Yuma County as more people arrive amid the coronavirus pandemic with hopes of making their home in America. Yuma Mayor Douglas Nicholls says the U.S. Border Patrol on Monday, Feb. 15, 2021, released a group of 20 people in the neighboring community of San Luis and that several similarly sized groups were let out later in the week. (Randy Hoeft/Yuma Sun via AP) **FILE**

US border officials start releasing migrants into Yuma

By ANITA SNOW - Associated Press

Amalia Ayala, front, a resident of Las Brisas Sunset senior apartment complex in San Luis, Ariz., deposits saliva for her COVID-19 test during the ASU and Equality Health Foundation pilot program on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. Free saliva tests engineered by Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute are administered in Yuma County's small border city of San Luis to disabled and older people living in subsidized housing. The tests have also been given to hundreds of farmworkers. (Cesar Neyoy/The Yuma Sun via AP)

Military nurses, tests coming to help hard-hit Arizona city

By ANITA SNOW - Associated Press

President Donald Trump smiles as he speaks to members of the National Border Patrol Council at the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Trump Yuma visit to mark border wall 200th mile

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Arizona history April 12-18

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Mexico: 3 shot dead at auto shop in city bordering Arizona

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UofA scientists to study Yuma lettuce outbreak

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Government contractors erect a section of Pentagon-funded border wall along the Colorado River, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019 in Yuma, Ariz. The 30-foot high wall replaces a five-mile section of Normandy barrier and post-n-beam fencing, shown at left, along the the International border that separates Mexico and the United States. Construction began as federal officials revealed a list of Defense Department projects to be cut to pay for President Donald Trump's wall. (AP Photo/Matt York)

450 miles of border wall by next year? In Arizona, it starts

By ASTRID GALVAN - Associated Press

Government contractors erect a section of Pentagon-funded border wall along the Colorado River, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019 in Yuma, Ariz. The 30-foot high wall replaces a five-mile section of Normandy barrier and post-n-beam fencing, shown at left, along the the International border that separates Mexico and the United States. Construction began as federal officials revealed a list of Defense Department projects to be cut to pay for President Donald Trump's wall. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Donald Trump border wall promise takes shape near Yuma, Arizona

By Astrid Galvan - Associated Press

Government contractors erect a section of Pentagon-funded border wall along the Colorado River, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019 in Yuma, Ariz. The 30-foot high wall replaces a five-mile section of Normandy barrier and post-n-beam fencing, shown at left, along the the International border that separates Mexico and the United States. Construction began as federal officials revealed a list of Defense Department projects to be cut to pay for President Donald Trump's wall. (AP Photo/Matt York)

450 miles of border wall by next year? In Arizona, it starts

By ASTRID GALVAN - Associated Press

In this June 15, 2019, photo, migrants cross the Rio Bravo illegally to surrender to the American authorities, on the U.S.-Mexico border between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Illegal immigration across border plummets as Mexico steps up

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times