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 League of United Latin American Citizens is denying a claim by U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., that its members supported repealing birthright citizenship. Some Republicans have supported a law that would end giving citizenship to those born on United States soil unless the parents are citizens or permanent legal residents.
Pearce said members of LULAC told him this at a tour of the United States-Mexico border with three other Republican legislators, including Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, who introduced a bill to end birthright citizenship. Pearce told the Albuquerque Journal that he has not looked at the legislation King proposed last month. Pearce is not among the bill’s 45 cosponsors.
Such citizenship is granted from the 14th amendment, and arguments against it have been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. Bills that would repeal birthright citizenship in the Arizona Legislature have temporarily stalled. No similar law has been introduced in the New Mexico State Legislature.
“LULAC strongly opposes efforts by some state legislators to violate the 14th amendment and to deny citizenship to children born in the United States,” said Margaret Moran, LULAC National President, in a statement last month.
