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.
Federal prosecutions of undocumented immigrants have jumped this spring, flooding courtrooms in New Mexico and other border states, according to a Syracuse University study released Thursday.
Case loads at the U.S. District Court in Albuquerque have jumped by 54 percent this spring, according to the Associated Press.
More than 4,000 cases were referred to federal prosecutors nationwide between March and April – the largest number of immigrant cases brought for a comparable period since the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency was created in 2005, the Syracuse Univeristy report states. Prosecutions included thousands of misdemeanor illegal entry prosecutions and deportation cases against immigrants found to have previous criminal records.
“People already are working 10- or 12-hour days and on weekends to just meet the caseload,” Albuquerque U.S. district court clerk Matt Dykeman told AP. “It’s not an eight-hour day, because you have to process them and get them in court for that detention hearing.”
