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.
Jose Antonio Vargas, who wrote for the Washington Post and shared a Pulitzer Prize for the paper’s coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings, came out as an undocumented immigrant in a New York Times Magazine story that went live this morning.
He came to the United States from the Philippines when he was 12, and was raised in Mountain View, Calif., with his grandparents. Vargas did not know he was an undocumented immigrant until he was 16 and rode his bike to the D.M.V. to try to get his learner’s permit and his green card was rejected.
He decided to write the story after hearing the stories of undocumented students lobbying for the passage of the DREAM Act. The story is worth reading in full.
Here’s Vargas telling his story at Define American:
