SAABE & ARIZONA BILINGUAL POSTPONE THE 2020 LATINAS BUSINESS & EMPOWERMENT CONFERENCE

Tucson, AZ, March 11, 2020– Amid the current global situation with the COVID-19, We have been decided to postpone this event for the safety of our attendees and all parties involved in the event. We are currently working in joint with the Tucson Convention Center team to decide on a new date, but in the meantime, we will refund all tickets sold to date for the Main Show with Dr. Cesar Lozano on March 18th. We are sincerely sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused, but we must abide by our social and community responsibility of making sure we keep providing safe and secure events for our audience. A full refund will be issued automatically to all tickets sold online. 

For all Tickets Purchased at any of the following locations can call our office at 520-305-4110:

Ticket Sales Authorized Dealers:

📍MR. LOKKO’s located at 5550 S. 12th Ave.
📍Alejandro’s Tortilla Factory located atel 5330 S. 12th Ave
📍Delicias Mexican Grill Located at 4581 S. 12th Ave

Thank you for your understanding. And we will announce the new date as soon as possible.

The number of migrants encountered by border agents along the Arizona-Mexico border rose again last month despite new efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration to crack down on asylum by returning migrants directly across the border to Nogales, Sonora.

U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended 7,407 migrants in December along the two sectors that cover Arizona’s border, Tucson and Yuma, according to statistics published Thursday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

It’s the fourth straight month that agents in the Tucson Sector — which covers Cochise, Santa Cruz and Pima counties — have seen a rise in the number of apprehensions. The area remains the second busiest crossing point along the border.

Customs and Border Protection has taken notice of the increase in border crossing in the Tucson Sector.

Citing shifting smuggling patterns on the ground, the agency rolled out in November a controversial program known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, more commonly known as “Remain in Mexico,” to the Arizona border to deter migrants from crossing.

But despite the implementation of program, migrants continued arriving through the Tucson border in December. However, it’s unclear if that will change given recent changes in how the agency is administering the program.

Last week, CBP began to return migrants processed along the Tucson Sector directly to Nogales, Sonora, to await their asylum proceedings in Mexico. When the program started, the agency bused the asylum-seekers to El Paso and then across the border to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

Overall, December’s numbers show that agents detained and processed 32,858 migrants along the entire southwestern U.S. border. That’s almost 100,000 people fewer than during the 2019 peak of 132,856 in May.

Along the Tucson Sector, last month’s numbers are nearly as high as they were back in May when the arrival of migrant families overwhelmed border officials, especially along south Texas, El Paso and Yuma.

Acting CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan on Thursday touted the seven-month decrease in the number of apprehensions border-wide. He attributed it to the agency’s “network of initiatives” that he said applied to 95 percent of people crossing the border illegally.

“Where there are non-meritorious claims for asylum, the aliens are removed quickly and returned to their home country,” Morgan said in a tweet. “This percentage demonstrates CBP’s ability & commitment to enforce our nation’s laws & maintain the integrity of the immigration system in the border environment.”

Morgan highlighted a decrease last month in the number of inadmissible asylum-seekers at ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Those are essentially the individuals who chose to wait for weeks or months at Mexican border cities to present their asylum claims at legal ports of entry, rather than cross the border illegally.

For years, the Trump administration had asked migrants wanting to claim asylum in the U.S. to present themselves at ports of entry. But under its metering policy, Customs and Border Protection processes only a handful of migrants each day at the legal border crossings.

This has resulted in lengthy wait times across Mexican border cities, many of whom must also deal now with asylum-seekers returned to their cities under “Remain in Mexico.”

Despite the large numbers of migrants waiting to claim asylum in Mexico — as many as 19,000, according to a study from the University of California at San Diego — border officers processed in December 7,762 migrants at ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border.