updated Fri. August 9, 2024
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Cato Institute (blog)
April 11, 2018
For over 60 years, the executive branch has, through regulatory fiat, imposed a “border zone” that extends as much as 100 miles into the United States. .... Beginning in 2014, CBP officials in Arizona reacted with threats and intimidation as a group of citizens in the town of Arivaca attempted to monitor theÃâà...
KVOA Tucson News
April 10, 2018
Ranchers living near the Arizona-Mexico border hope National Guard troops will help increase border security. "We're glad that they are coming," said one rancher who didn't want to be identified. The Arivaca area rancher says that in recent months she's seen an increase in the number of undocumentedÃâà...
TIME
April 5, 2018
A fifth-generation Arizona rancher who is an outspoken supporter of Trump's border wall said he was “absolutely elated” by the president's National Guard deployment plans. Jim Chilton's ranch in Arivaca, Arizona stretches 14 miles (23 kilometers) along the border, separated from Mexico by barbed wireÃâà...
Boston Review
April 3, 2018
For example, some citizens of Arivaca, Arizona, have been protesting for years about the civil liberty violations caused by the checkpoint outside their town. Protest signs have read, “Check yourself BP, stop watching our community,” and “Our communities are not your warzones.” From the vantage of theÃâà...
Drovers Magazine
March 29, 2018
Bell's grazing allotments in the Coronado National Forest run along the border 10 miles past where Arizona's border angles northwest. ... Bell's neighbors to the west are Jim and Sue Chilton from Arivaca, Ariz., who also graze land along the border and have an even worse road issue. “Just to go from ourÃâà...
Arizona Daily Star
February 13, 2018
Volunteers with People Helping People, an Arivaca humanitarian organization, prepare to monitor the Border Patrol checkpoint on Arizona 286. ... ruled Tuesday that Magistrate Bruce McDonald erred in throwing out a 2014 lawsuit demanding access to the site along a 319-foot stretch of Arivaca Road.
The Week Magazine
August 28, 2017
A few weeks ago, I visited Arivaca, Arizona, a breathtakingly beautiful unincorporated hamlet of 700 people about 11 miles from the Mexican border. No one I spoke to in Arivaca wants an uncontrolled border that terrorists or criminals could mosey on through, no questions asked. But they also believe theÃâà...
