Lastly, we included in this story a few key organizations working with immigrant communities on the ground in Phoenix and Tucson, you can find them here:
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Lastly, we included in this story a few key organizations working with immigrant communities on the ground in Phoenix and Tucson, you can find them here:
“This administration’s cruel and harsh zero-tolerance policy uses racial profiling to indiscriminately target anyone with a precarious immigration status for detention and removal,” said Yvette Borja, an attorney with Red de DefensAZ
Nearly seven out of every ten people arrested during these street-level operations had no prior criminal convictions. Even among custodial arrests, fewer than half had prior criminal convictions.
Arrests began climbing sharply, reaching 364 in February, the first full month of the second Trump administration, and more than 800 by June. In September, federal immigration agents arrested more people than in any other month since Trump’s second term: a record high of 997 arrests.
Immigration enforcement in Arizona last year took a sharp upturn after the election of Donald Trump, with a boom in street level arrests
@raphaeldelaghetto.bsky.social and I take a look at the numbers
azluminaria.org/2026/03/03/i...
The strike of Kaiser healthcare workers, including 22k nurses, enters its fourth week
calmatters.org/health/2026/...
Wealthy ranchers in the Southwest benefit from subsidy programs that let them graze cattle on federal lands at a steep discount.
Roughly two-thirds of all the livestock grazing on BLM acreage is controlled by just 10% of ranchers
www.propublica.org/article/graz...
My colleague @cacuella.bsky.social went on a hike with the Amphi Women and Girls Union, a space for teenage girls in a historically disenfranchized Tucson community to hike, talk and learn
azluminaria.org/2026/02/12/a...
I dug into the transit tax proposal that Pima County residents can vote on in the next month, and how to weigh your vote depending on what transit future you're looking for:
azluminaria.org/2026/02/13/r...
My colleague
@shannonconner.bsky.social
has been at the forefront of breaking some of the biggest stories in education in southern AZ lately.
Her latest is about parents lawsuit over a plan to move Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and the Blind out of Tucson
azluminaria.org/2026/02/03/a...
My time with The Washington Post is up. I was laid off with hundreds of folks I am so honored to call my colleagues.
I covered it all at The Post (really), so now I'm looking for my next adventure.
➡️ kbellware [at] gmail dot com
Website update coming soon
@postguild.bsky.social
forever
404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for the Palantir-made tool called ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
www.404media.co/here-is-the-...
Since last year, we’ve been reporting on ICE extensively. But every week brings new information, and it’s getting harder to keep track of what’s happening, let alone remember what’s already happened.
So here’s a quick thread to help.
The adults in the family stopped going to work. Volunteers now drop off groceries. The only members of the household who go outside are nephews and nieces who catch the bus to school. However, they struggle to concentrate in class, worrying that ICE might return while they're gone.
“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” principal Jason Kuhlman said about the second grader and fifth grader.
Yesenia had walked thousands of miles through the Darién Gap and through Mexico to get a modicum of safety and security for her children in Tucson. Then a traffic stop destroyed it all
@jwashing.bsky.social follows the story of one family after deportation
azluminaria.org/a-long-way-h...
One human rights observer in Maine said agents followed her home, blocked off her street, and came to her door to say they know where she lives. Her children are now staying elsewhere, to keep them safe.
I've seen a lot of upsetting images in the past .. well, I guess years, but this one from Richard Tsong-Taatarii is immediately burned into my memory. Here's the photojournalist's insta if you want to follow him. www.instagram.com/rtsongphoto/...
I recently met a widowed 71-year-old woman still working two jobs and living at an extended-stay hotel because even two jobs don't pay her enough to afford rent.
This is what "one more year of work" looks like in America.
Willian Giménez González, Chicago day laborer and beloved worker leader in Chicago, has been released from ICE custody. I spoke to him about his 47-day detention, and what solidarity looks like in this moment. "I owe my freedom to being organized," he says.
We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
One of my biggest takeaways from reporting this story was how much media reports in the aftermath of police shootings, in particular with the police union spokesperson putting forward a narrative of an incident, were then used as key pieces of evidence for a future investigation.
lots of cop hagiography today, while this is also a big part of the story of police and J6:
Police officers move to new departments all the time. What is the responsibility of local agencies to make sure they're not hiring officers accused of misconduct?
@samstecklow.bsky.social and I look at the hiring of one officer in Phoenix
www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix...
In the first of three stories, @yanak.bsky.social and I report on how self-imposed pressures on the Phoenix PD pushed officials to hire increasing amounts of "lateral transfer" officers from other departments — or other states.
@invisible.institute + @theappeal.org + @phoenixnewtimes.com
I don’t ever want to hear anyone say “the raids aren't as bad.” this is the last 2 days.
lataco.com/daily-memo-d...
Nearly a quarter of HIV-related deaths in Maricopa County involved people who were housing insecure, a @lookoutnews.bsky.social investigation of medical examiner data found
www.lookoutnews.org/lookout-repo...
The number of children in Nevada taken from their families due to housing has been rising since eviction moratoria and pandemic supports went away nevadacurrent.com/2025/12/03/h...
@nodesertdatacenter.com has been one of the most energetic and fast-growing organizing efforts I've covered - this summer it was a loose group of people opposed to a water-heavy development, and its closing out 2025 as a national model for fighting data centers
azluminaria.org/2025/07/21/t...
