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Paul Ingram @pmingram.tucsonsentinel.com · 01/10/2026

A private prison company signed a $355 million deal Tuesday to operate an immigration detention facility in Marana, Ariz., and the company plans to open the facility before the end of the year. www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

The Management and Training Corporation facility in Marana in June 2025

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Paul Ingram @pmingram.tucsonsentinel.com · 29/09/2026

The U.S. Forest Service announced Monday they are closing public access to border wall construction projects across Southern Arizona, warning that people who violate the order could face a $5,000 fine, and up to six months in prison. www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

A double border wall under construction in the San Rafael Valley in Southern Arizona.

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Paul Ingram @pmingram.tucsonsentinel.com · 17/08/2026

ICYMI: "Tohono O'odham Nation leaders are exploring their legal options after a federal judge denied the nation's request to temporarily halt construction of a so-called "Smart Wall" on its southern border with Mexico, which stretches for more than 80 miles in Southern Arizona."

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Paul Ingram @pmingram.tucsonsentinel.com · 17/06/2026

Breaking: The Tohono O'odham Nation sued the Trump administration on Tuesday to prevent the construction of a border wall in Southern Arizona, seeking to block DHS from building a so-called "Smart Wall" along the reservation's 62-mile border with Mexico: www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

Wearing a cowboy hat and a colorful vest, Verlon Jose, the chairman of the Tohono O'odham Nation walks off the stage after speaking during a Harris-Walz campaign event in Tucson in November 2024.

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Paul Ingram @pmingram.tucsonsentinel.com · 23/03/2025

Photos: AOC, Sanders barnstorm in Tucson with anti-Trump 'Fighting Oligarchy' message: More here: www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

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Paul Ingram @pmingram.tucsonsentinel.com · 22/03/2025

Thousands braving a hot sunny day at Catalina High this morning to see Sen. Sanders and AOC as part of “Fighting Oligarchy” tour.

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Paul Ingram @pmingram.tucsonsentinel.com · 18/03/2025

Tucson city officials are clearing part of Hundred-Acre Wood, a stretch of park and desert landscape near D-M where dozens of homeless people have made camp. City employees said they’ve been working for weeks to move people from the area before clearing the camp, removing trash and debris.

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Paul Ingram @pmingram.tucsonsentinel.com · 15/03/2025

If you’re at the Tucson Festival of Books this weekend, come see your favorite reporters, editors, and columnist with the Tucson Sentinel

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Paul Ingram @pmingram.tucsonsentinel.com · 31/12/2024

Some of my favorite images from this year.

Former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords touches the Jan. 8 Memorial, which commemorates the 2011 shooting that left her and 18 others wounded, and killed 6.

People enjoy snow and clouds at Windy Point on the Mount Lemmon Highway.

Victor Borg helps one of his last customers purchase a pair of custom boots as he prepares to close the Stewart Boot Company, which served Tucson for 69 years.

Despite rain and lightning, a dancer lights up the urn at the 2024 All Souls Procession in Tucson, Ariz. in November.

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Paul Ingram @pmingram.tucsonsentinel.com · 28/11/2024

Here are photos from the second story, “No More Deaths volunteers evacuate migrants from 'dire' cold as Christmas nears in remote Az desert.” www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

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Paul Ingram @pmingram.tucsonsentinel.com · 28/11/2024

For the 2023 Arizona Press Club Awards, I revived 1st and 3rd place for Photojournalism News. Here are some of the photos from one story:

A group of more than 750 people arrived earlier this week in a remote stretch of desert west of Lukeville, Ariz. about 110 miles southwest of Tucson in November 2023.

A worker welds a new “bollard” along the wall near Organ Pipe Cactus National Wildlife Refuge.

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Paul Ingram @pmingram.tucsonsentinel.com · 20/11/2024

Laiken makes a vital point. A story in photos: April 2019, the border along Organ Pipe was marked by “vehicle barriers” and screen panels at Monument hill close to Lukeville, Ariz. Four years later, in Nov. 2023 nearly 750 asylum seekers huddled in the shadow of a 30-foot high wall after crossing.

Organ Pipe Cactus Nat’l Monument in April 2019

A Border Patrol truck on the road near Organ Pipe Cactus Nat’l Monument in April 2019.

A woman huddles among a sea of silver Mylar blankets on the Organ Pipe Cactus Nat’l Monument in November 2023.

Around 750 migrants wait for Border Patrol on the Organ Pipe Cactus Nat’l Monument in November 2023. Note, the wall along the border road.

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Paul Ingram @pmingram.tucsonsentinel.com · 18/11/2024

Photos from 2018. The guy working the stables at the Nogales station was having a blast. Other guardsmen were running surveillance cameras, fixing BP trucks, and serving as the safety officer for the gun range.

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Paul Ingram @pmingram.tucsonsentinel.com · 15/11/2024

On Thursday, several Tucson Unified Schools held a “walk-in” to celebrate Ruby Bridges. In 1960, Bridges attended a school in New Orleans, forcing its integration years after the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education: www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

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