Joe Biden approved the mine to extract minerals for green energy, but locals say it will threaten the biodiversity of the Patagonia Mountains.
Raymond Mattia’s family said the partial release of body camera footage “feels like a cheap attempt to justify what they did.”
The powerful lights mounted on the border wall threaten the dark skies that make southern Arizona a biodiversity hotspot.
The War on Immigrants
As President Joe Biden swaps one asylum crackdown for another, the border’s lethality endures.
The ACLU’s Keegan Medrano, a queer, Native advocate in Helena, said Zephyr’s expulsion was the culmination of months of attacks from Montana’s far right.
The War on Immigrants
Residents blasted Rep. Matt Schaefer’s controversial bill in a hearing that stretched late into the night.
A U.S. official admitted his call for Mexico to apprehend the pastor was “literally creative writing” and “without any basis.”
Republicans used conspiracy theories and unsound science in a hearing proposing to end protections for wolves and grizzlies.
The War on Immigrants
Republican lawmakers are making a bid to challenge the federal government’s monopoly on immigration enforcement at the Supreme Court.
In court, the feds said Oak Flat would be in the hands of mining giants Rio Tinto and BHP by early summer.