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Jude Joffe-Block

Jude Joffe-Block is a senior field correspondent with member station KJZZ in Phoenix, Arizona and a reporter for Fronteras Desk, a public radio collaboration focused on demographic change and border issues in the Southwest.

Jude Joffe-Block is a senior field correspondent with member station KJZZ in Phoenix, Arizona. She is also a reporter for Fronteras Desk, a public radio collaboration focused on demographic change and border issues in the Southwest.

A woman holds a visibly distraught woman with her face in her hand.

Arizona volunteers form ‘underground’ network to house migrants released by ICE

Immigration

In last three months, ICE has released some 107,000 migrant parents and children in Texas, Arizona and California, many without next steps in place. Shelters, churches and volunteers have stepped in to help these families get to their next destinations. Most are trying to join relatives and friends elsewhere.

A young man sits at a table and talks with his mother.

Getting legal status opened the path to college for this Arizona immigrant family

A group of young people walk in front of the Arizona state Capitol.

As DACA fix remains elusive, Arizona ‘Dreamers’ focus on in-state tuition

Immigration
US Army soldiers install razor wire

US troops’ arrival prompts unease on both sides of the border in Arizona

Immigration
Carmen Pérez Noyola, holding an envelope, prepares to mail in her ballot from Phoenix for the July 1 presidential election in Mexico.

From the US, Mexican expats root for a ‘change’ candidate in presidential elections

Politics
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After Arpaio guilty verdict, immigrant advocates want his legacy dismantled

Conflict

The man known as “America’s toughest sheriff” will face a maximum penalty of six months in federal prison when he is sentenced in October.

Arpaio

Immigrants in Arizona are campaigning to oust a controversial sheriff

Election 2016

Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio has earned friends and foes nationwide for his tough stance on illegal immigration. Now, immigrants and their allies in several US states are mobilizing to get him out of office.

Arpaio sits on a folding chair in a gym

What you need to know about the criminal case against Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Justice

US Department of Justice lawyers said in federal court Tuesday they will pursue criminal contempt of court charges against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio for his violation of a federal judge’s order in a racial profiling case.

Vitomir Spiric in his home in Phoenix.

A Bosnian Serb in Phoenix says he’s been labeled a war criminal without ever being tried or convicted

Conflict

Twenty years after the massacre at Srebrenica, the US aims to deport Bosnian immigrants suspected of involvement. But one Bosnian Serb facing deportation says he’s been unfairly labeled a war criminal.

A group of Serbian-speaking men have a leisurely lunch at the Q2 Café in Phoenix. The café, run by a Bosnian Serb refugee, aims to attract patrons from all parts of the former Yugoslavia.

Brutal enemies 20 years ago, they’re learning to get along. In Phoenix.

Conflict

It’s been 20 years since the Bosnian War, but some of the ethnic tensions that fueled that conflict live on among Bosnian refugees in Phoenix, Arizona.