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2 days ago | azfreenews.com | Matthew Holloway

By Matthew Holloway |Arizona Congressman Eli Crane (R-AZ02) introduced the bipartisan Legacy Mine Cleanup Act of 2025 alongside Arizona Democrats Rep. Greg Stanton (D-AZ04), Senator Mark Kelly, and Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming. In the proposed legislation, the Office of Mountains, Deserts, and Plains (OMDP) within the EPA, launched in 2020 under by President Donald Trump, would be codified into law.

2 days ago | azfreenews.com | Matthew Holloway

By Matthew Holloway |The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under Secretary Kristi Noem has ordered the issuance of three new waivers to allow construction on 36 miles of new border wall in Arizona and New Mexico to begin. The largest stretch of border wall will be constructed at the Tucson Sonoita Project covering approximately 24.7 miles of the border.

3 days ago | azfreenews.com | Matthew Holloway

By Matthew Holloway |Two Arizona teenagers were arrested by U.S. Border Patrol agents working in the Tohono O’odham Nation alongside three illegal aliens from Guatemala and one Mexican national in the midst of a human smuggling operation last week. Border surveillance technology identified a suspect vehicle: a silver 2005 Honda Civic, which had earlier been detected driving southbound on Interstate 19 between Tucson and Nogales.

3 days ago | azfreenews.com | Matthew Holloway

By Matthew Holloway |Arizona State Senator Shawnna Bolick’s recently introduced bill to combat animal cruelty in Arizona was greeted with widespread support from prosecutors and the state’s law enforcement community on Monday.

4 days ago | azfreenews.com | Matthew Holloway

By Matthew Holloway |Chief Patrol Agent (CPA) of the U.S. Border Patrol Tucson Sector Sean McGoffin shared powerful video Monday of its 20th annual Valor in the Desert ceremony in which the Border Patrol honors the fallen heroes who sacrificed their lives to defend America’s borders. The ceremony featured an honor guard complete with a riderless horse, symbolically placed dress-duty campaign hats, and the solemn tolling of the bell for each of the officers lost in the line of duty.