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.
Democrats will still hold a majority in both chambers during the lame-duck session, when leaders hope to pass the DREAM Act to give some undocumented young people and military service members legal status. But after January, immigration reform efforts that include paths to legal status for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants currently in the United States seem next to impossible, meaning the next few years will see little progress for immigration reform advocates.
As Republicans push for increased border enforcement, many have sought to expand Operation Streamline, a “zero tolerance” immigration enforcement program that automatically slates all migrants caught crossing the border illegally for criminal prosecution. (Immigrant deportation is generally a civil,…
The Senate on Thursday passed a border security bill that will providing funds for 1,500 new enforcement agents and additional unmanned drones along the border. But immigrants’ rights advocates aren’t happy with the Democrats for pushing more harsh enforcement over comprehensive reform — and proponents of tougher immigration policies said the bill won’t convince them Obama and the Democrats are serious about securing the border.
President Obama will send up to 1,200 National Guard troops to the border and request an additional $500 million in supplemental funding for border security, he told Senate Republicans today.
A regulatory overhaul of the financial industry is probably the next thing Congress will tackle, Congressman Martin Heinrich said Wednesday in an interview in Albuquerque. President Obama outlined a major financial reform plan last summer, but the plan still faces many roadblocks. Still, Heinrich said Tuesday he’s “optimistic that we will have a Wall Street reform bill in the next couple of months.”
In the name of border security, the federal government served Eloisa Tamez condemnation papers on part of the border-straddling land that’s been in her family for generations.Tamez, who was in Albuquerque for an academic conference, told NMI that attorneys emailed her about the condemnation order earlier in the day.
