Firefighters question leaders’ role in ICE raid near Bear Gulch Fire - High Country News
Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities.
Holy shit:
Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status.
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Man o’ war?
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Can Arizona come together to share Colorado River cuts? Talks have begun
Arizona is tussling with other states over how much of the Colorado River it should receive. But how will Arizonans divide its share internally?
The megadrought is unrelenting, so Arizona water users have a lot to figure out among themselves even if the state can reach a deal with the other Colorado River states. The Arizona Republic’s Austin Corona explains.
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Trump administration to build border wall across wildlife corridor at San Rafael Valley
Spared in the first Trump administration, Arizona's wildlife-rich San Rafael Valley is now targeted for border wall construction.
We’ll publish a closer look at Southwestern species, wildlands and cultures affected by renewed border construction later this week on azcentral. For now, a new 25-mile stretch of wall appears likely to cross Arizona’s remote San Rafael Valley.
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Hillbilly elegance.
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