Michel Marizco
Senior Field CorrespondentSenior Field Correspondent Michel Marizco (Tucson) has reported along the Southwest border for the past decade, most of that in Arizona and Sonora. Before joining the Fronteras Desk, he produced stories in the field for CNN Madrid, the BBC, 60 Minutes Australia, and the CBC. His work now focuses on transnational trafficking syndicates, immigration, federal law enforcement and those weird, wild stories that make the U.S.-Mexico border such an inherently fascinating region. He is a contributing author on Shared Responsibility: U.S.-Mexico Policy Options for Confronting Organized Crime and an occasional writer at High Country News. In his spare time, he works with Investigative Reporters and Editors and the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, assisting in the ongoing investigations of journalist killings in Mexico.
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Arizona's governor issued an executive order preventing newly deferred deportees from receiving public benefits or a driver's license. -
The United States will begin accepting applications Wednesday for qualifying illegal immigrants to be granted a two-year reprieve from deportation. But some questions about the program remain.
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On a cold December night in 2010, a Border Patrol agent was shot and killed along the U.S.-Mexican border in southern Arizona. His murder exposed a government operation known as Fast and Furious that’s become a major scandal. -
Jared Lee Loughner has agreed to spend the rest of his life in prison, accepting that he went on a deadly shooting rampage at a Tucson political gathering.
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The federal judge overseeing the mass shooting case in Tucson that injured Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has confirmed that the accused gunman requested a change to his earlier not guilty plea. -
A gun battle in Puerto Peñasco (Rocky Point), Mexico, prompted the U.S. State Department to caution Americans this week about taking care while visiting the border beach town.
