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.
Mexico filed a brief with a U.S. federal court Tuesday requesting that Arizona’s new immigration law be struck down as unconstitutional, according to the Arizona Daily Sun.
The country’s brief was filed in one of the five lawsuits challenging the new law, which goes into effect late next month unless the state is stopped from implementing it, the paper reported.
The brief said that Mexico’s “interest in having predictable, consistent relations with the United States shouldn’t be frustrated by one U.S. state.”
The paper quoted from the brief directly:
“Mexican citizens will be afraid to visit Arizona for work or pleasure out of concern that they will be subject to unlawful police scrutiny and detention,” the brief said.
It was unclear to what lawsuit Mexico filed its brief. Two New Mexicans joined one lawsuit challenging the law that was filed last month by the American Civil Liberties Union and other organizations.
The law has galvanized the national debate over immigration as well as some conversation in New Mexico and how it differs from Arizona on this issue.
