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Danyelle Khmara

Tucson

Border Reporter at Arizona Public Media

Border reporter for @azpmnews. Formerly award-winning reporter @TucsonStar. Mother of a teenager, capoeirista, ardent weirdo. Story tips [email protected] & DMs.

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  • 1 week ago | news.azpm.org | Danyelle Khmara

    A file image of a judge's gavel in a courtroom at the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. The Trump administration Wednesday ended the Legal Orientation Program, designed to provide people with basic information necessary to understand their rights in immigration court. Laura St. John, with the legal aid nonprofit the Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project, said the program has had bipartisan support since it was created in 2003.

  • 1 week ago | azpm.org | Danyelle Khmara

    VIEW LARGER Border barriers in the Sierra Vista District of the Coronado National Forest on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. Emily Burns, program director for the Sky Island Alliance says the state government opted not to place shipping containers in this specific area. The Trump administration is planning to build 25 miles of new border wall in the critical wildlife corridor of the San Rafael Valley.

  • 2 weeks ago | azpm.org | Danyelle Khmara

    Police officers in downtown Tucson on June 24, 2022. The Tucson Police Department is using the 500-thousand dollars, from the Department of Public Safety, for five K9 vehicles. The agreement with the state says it’s to deter, apprehend, prosecute and detain individuals charged with drug trafficking, human smuggling, illegal immigration and other border-related crimes, but TPD spokesperson Richard Gradillas said it won’t affect the department’s practices relating to immigration.

  • 2 weeks ago | news.azpm.org | Danyelle Khmara

    Thousands gather at the south edge of Reid Park in Tucson on April 5, 2025, for anti-Trump protest. Protesters filled both sides of 22nd street, on the south side of Reid Park, for the mile from Country Club to Alvernon and beyond. Spokesperson Bennett Burke, with grassroots group Mobilize Tucson, which organized the event, said they estimated that 20-thousand people turned out in Tucson to protest.

  • 3 weeks ago | azpm.org | Danyelle Khmara

    A March 2018 photo of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. In early February, several black SUVs with tinted windows pulled onto Mari’s property. She says there were numerous agents, heavily armed, with their weapons drawn. “The machine guns were always drawn on us,” she said. “At no time they put their arms down, even though they knew we were no threat. And I declared and I showed them his documents and said, ‘He is legally here.

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Danyelle Khmara
Danyelle Khmara @DanyelleKhmara
14 Dec 24

https://t.co/hlzsYU6buM @tedcruz @LtGovTX @RepEliCrane Re: the @DailyWireNews article and the border wall materials Biden just got rid of -- you're mad at the wrong person

Danyelle Khmara
Danyelle Khmara @DanyelleKhmara
14 Dec 24

Senator, he's just following the law you passed https://t.co/hlzsYU5DFe

Senator Ted Cruz
Senator Ted Cruz @SenTedCruz

President Biden is rushing to sell off sections of the wall that are yet to be built. President Biden and Kamala Harris have successfully put illegal aliens over the safety and security of our own citizens. Never forget why the American people rejected them.

Danyelle Khmara
Danyelle Khmara @DanyelleKhmara
14 Nov 24

Hi, I am looking for #PimaCounty voters who voted primarily or all Democrat and voted yes on border security #Prop314. I'd love to hear your perspective for a possible news story. Please DM me, and thank you ahead of time! #ArizonaPolitics #BorderSecurity #Democrats #AZNews