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…
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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.
Three attempts to end a law that allows illegal immigrants to get state driver’s licenses failed in the New Mexico Senate Monday. The three attempts came when Republican legislators attempted to add amendments to a bill that tightens laws on drivers under 18 who receive licenses.
The Alamogordo Daily News reported:
Sen. William Sharer, R-Farmington, offered the first proposed change. Wirth said it was “unconstitutional” because it changed the substance of his bill.
A protracted debated followed. It ended with 25 Democrats voting not to allow Sharer’s amendment. In doing so, they overruled Lt. Gov. John Sanchez, president of the Senate.
Fourteen Republicans and Democrat Tim Jennings wanted the amendment heard.
Two other attempts by Republican Senators Clint Harden, R-Albuquerque, and John Ryan, R-Albuquerque, failed in similar fashion.
On Saturday, a bill that would revoke the driver’s licenses of illegal immigrants and bar illegal immigrants from receiving driver’s licenses failed in a House committee on a party-line vote. Afterward Gov. Susana Martinez issued a release calling on an up-and-down vote in the state House on the bill despite the bill being tabled in committee.
Martinez has made banning illegal immigrants from getting driver’s licenses a priority in her first year in office.
