I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Rachel LaZar, executive director of El Centro de Igualdad y Derechos, a local immigrants’ rights advocacy organization, said the new immigration policy announced by Albuquerque mayor Richard Berry “will undermine community policing and fuel the immigrant communities’ already existing perception of seeing local police as immigration agents.”
LaZar also took exception to the claims that Albuquerque was a sanctuary city.
“You can’t put a stop to something that didn’t exist in the first place,” LaZar said. “It is disingenuous for the Berry administration to announce that Albuquerque is no longer a sanctuary city—when it was never a sanctuary city.”
LaZar said that U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement, commonly known by the acronym ICE, “has had a permanent presence at the Metropolitan Detention Center for years- most recently through the implementation of a federal program called Secure Communities– a program that proceeded Mayor Berry’s administration.”
LaZar also says the law will undermine the ability of people to defend themselves from criminal charges.
