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.
The flow of unauthorized immigration slowed by nearly two-thirds between 2007 and 2009, according a new report from the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center. The slowdown is the first significant dip in immigration over the past 20 years.
The report, released Wednesday, also showed that the number of unauthorized immigrants in the Mountain states (Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming) declined by 160,000, to 1 million, from 2008 to 2009.
The report, “U.S. Unauthorized Immigration Flows Are Down Sharply Since Mid-Decade,” authored by Jeffrey Passel, Senior Demographer, Pew Hispanic Center, and D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer, Pew Research Center, is available at the Pew Hispanic Center’s website, www.pewhispanic.org.
