Arizona Politics & News
The Daily Signal covers Arizona politics and news with analysis, commentary, and conservative perspectives on elections, immigration enforcement, and border security debates.
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Arizona Lawmaker Aims to Send Border-Crossing Children Home Faster
Legislation proposed by an Arizona congressman would give federal officials authority to quickly screen and deport unaccompanied children from Central America who have crossed the Mexican border into the United States. The bill from Rep. Matt Salmon, R-Ariz., would change a provision in a 2008 human-trafficking law that requires U.S. Border Patrol agents to turn over the children… -
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Arizona Grapples With Humanitarian ‘Disaster’ as Unaccompanied Immigrant Children Fend for Themselves
Undocumented immigrant children, some as young as 5 years old and traveling with no parent or adult, are being dropped off by the busload in Arizona as the Department of Homeland Security attempts to grapple with what is fast becoming a humanitarian disaster on our southern border. According to CNN, the federal transport of “unaccompanied…