Alisa Reznick is a senior field correspondent at KJZZ's Fronteras Desk, where she covers stories across southern Arizona and the borderlands. Her reporting focuses on migration, refugees, and human rights, with a particular emphasis on border and immigration issues, as well as legal affairs and regional interests. Reznick's work has been featured in prominent outlets such as For The World, New England Public Media, and Al Jazeera.
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Alisa Reznick's reporting primarily focuses on government and politics, particularly border issues and immigration in Arizona. Her coverage includes a significant emphasis on government announcements, legal policy regulation, and evolving stories related to the topics covered.
Given her focus on these specific areas within Arizona, Alisa is likely seeking sources with direct knowledge of local governmental policies, community impact assessments or those involved in lobbying for changes. Experts with insight into immigration law or policy at the state level would be valuable contributors to her articles.
It’s important to note that while she has a strong geographic focus on Arizona border issues specifically, her coverage also extends to broader national implications of these topics.
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By: Alisa Reznick
Activists have spent the last 70 days camped around and inside a cottonwood tree right along the border in the tiny town of Lochiel. The tree was the last of an old grove estimated to be up to 250 years old — the encampment began after wall contractors felled the three others.
By: Alisa Reznick
Protesters have been camped out in a plot of private ranch land in Lochiel for over two months now, trying to block wall construction as it neared a towering cottonwood tree that was the last of a grove slated for destruction to make way for two, parallel steel bollard walls.
On Monday, dozens of agents swarmed a stretch of private land where the activists had been camped in and around a centuries-old cottonwood tree. Contractors tore down the tree and agents made multiple arrests.
By: Alisa Reznick
The standoff began Oct. 5, when Border Patrol agents swarmed a protest camp situated in and around a cottonwood tree slated for removal to make way for two steel border walls — the last of a border-hugging grove on the U.S. side that was estimated to be as much as 250 years old.
By: Alisa Reznick
Activists started occupying the cottonwood at the end of July, hoping to save it after the others were felled. They hoisted a wooden platform high into its branches, and camped on private land right next to it.
By: Alisa Reznick
A new lawsuit filed by an Arizona legal-aid group alleges the Trump administration is fast-tracking deportations for immigrant children alone in the U.S.
By: Alisa Reznick
Protesters in Arizona are decrying the removal of 250-year-old cottonwood trees for border wall expansion. This after a judge temporarily halted it in and near Big Bend National Park in Texas.
Protesters in Arizona are decrying the removal of 250-year-old cottonwood trees for border wall expansion. This after a judge temporarily halted it in and near Big Bend National Park in Texas.
By: Alisa Reznick
The potentially-deadly, flesh-eating parasite burrows into the flesh of cows, horses and other warm-blooded animals. Officials say two screwworm cases — in a horse and a cow — were found in Grant County, New Mexico. The county is right along the state's border with Arizona. The officials say those new cases expand one zone of infestation and establish another.
By: Alisa Reznick
Local CBP officers spoke to reporters in Tucson about drug interdiction efforts for fiscal year 2026 — which ended Sept. 30.
