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.
Both gubernatorial candidates clarified statements on immigrants after being contacted by NMPolitics.net on the question.
Republican candidate Susana Martinez said she believes that illegal immigrants should have to return to their country before beginning the process of legalization. Denish clarified by saying that no one knows exactly what a process for legalization would look like.
“As she clearly states in the article, Susana does not support the ‘pathway to citizenship,’ which was proposed by Bush and has been advocated by Obama,” Martinez campaign manager Ryan Cangiolosi said. “That proposal allows illegal immigrants to stay in the country and immediately begin a process towards citizenship without having to return to their countries of origin.”
Cangiolosi says that by not returning to their countries of origin, “this amounts to jumping the line as others wishing to move to the United States and become citizens are not allowed to come live here while they apply for citizenship.”
“By calling for national comprehensive immigration reform, I am of course speaking about a process that will determine the status of the millions of undocumented workers already here,” Denish said in a statement sent to The Independent and NMPolitics.net “I’m not sure anyone knows for sure exactly how that process would need to work, but it does need to be humane and understanding of the fact that there are some undocumented workers who have been living and working here for years and likely wish to stay legally, and there are others who only intend to work and then return to their home countries.”
The full clarifications are available at NMPolitics.net.
There are an estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States right now.
