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Jude Joffe-Block

Jude Joffe-Block is an Arizona-based reporter

April 2020

  • Gilberto Ramirez holds a photograph of his son Anibal Andres Ramirez, who was shot and killed in 2017 in Oakland, Calif. The Ramirez family immigrated from Guatemala in search of a safer life, only to confront the grim reality of violent crime in the United States. The homicide remains unsolved. (Photo by Tim Hussin)

    Guns and lies
    Traumatized migrant kids were being shot. One school district came up with a plan to save them

  • Guatemala Illustration

    Deported amid coronavirus: US sends Guatemalan family home to face new threat

March 2020

  • Voters cast their ballots in the Democratic primary in Arizona<br>Rebeca Estrada Hasselbach, 73, leaves a polling station after casting her ballot at the Burton Barr Library, wearing a mask amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) concerns, in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., March 17, 2020. REUTERS/Cheney Orr

    'It's like a sick experiment': Arizona lags behind as states order residents to stay home

    Despite hundreds of Covid-19 cases, the governor has refused to order shelter-in-place and has barred localities from acting on their own

December 2019

  • Parole was once the norm for arriving asylum seekers, but approval has become increasingly rare in recent years.

    ‘It is beyond cruel’: Ice refuses to reunite girl with the only family she has left

    María has been waiting to be paroled so she can be with her niece, who was sent to foster care 2,400 miles away

October 2019

  • ‘When we talk about family separation, we are not just talking about DNA families.’

    She raised her niece like a daughter. Then the US government separated them at the border

    The Trump administration is still separating children from their family members at the border. Inside a hidden crisis

August 2017

  • FILE PHOTO: U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is joined onstage by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio at a campaign rally in Marshalltown<br>FILE PHOTO: U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is joined onstage by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio (L) at a campaign rally in Marshalltown, Iowa January 26, 2016, after Arpaio endorsed Trump’s cacndidacy. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo

    Trump and Arpaio: the bromance that led to the presidency and a pardon

    During Donald Trump’s campaign, Joe Arpaio joked about how much the two had in common. In the end the president prized loyalty over legal procedure
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