Jude Joffe-Block
Senior Field CorrespondentSenior Field Correspondent Jude Joffe-Block (Phoenix) caught the radio bug while assisting a radio reporter in Mexico, and has been happiest wearing headphones and pointing microphones ever since. She initiated Fronteras Desk coverage in Las Vegas as the project's first Senior Field Correspondent there. She then joined the Phoenix newsroom in July 2012. Previously, she contributed stories on immigration and criminal justice to KALW in San Francisco and multimedia content in both Spanish and English to the Associated Press in Mexico. She is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and Yale University, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Mexico.
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Whether a key provision of Arizona’s immigration law can go forward was debated in federal court Tuesday, despite an earlier U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said it could take effect. -
Civil rights advocates are seeking a new preliminary injunction to prevent the heart of Arizona’s controversial immigration law from taking effect. -
The order represents a victory for the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund and other voting groups, which have been challenging the state's voter registration requirements since 2006. -
Attorneys say Arizona’s bar on driver’s licenses for immigrants who qualify for a new deportation relief initiative may not be legal. -
A new PAC aims to give a boost to Latino Democrats in the Southwest. -
For many young undocumented immigrants, Aug. 15 began optimistically as the day they could begin to apply for deportation relief under a new federal program. But in Arizona, the day ended in protest over news that those qualifying would be barred from getting state driver's licenses.
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