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.
Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) just completed a week-long raid that nabbed 2,901 foreign nationals with criminal records living in the United States, 36 of which were apprehended in New Mexico.
When journalist Jose Antonio Vargas confessed to being undocumented in a piece for New York Times Magazine, he stated that he had obtained an Oregon driver’s license by using a fake Social Security card and proof of residency. However, his lawyer advised him not to include the fact that he had obtained a Washington state driver’s license after the Oregon one expired. That news broke soon after the story was published. Now, Vargas’ license has been canceled by the Washington State Licensing Department, which cited Vargas’ lack of residence in the state as their reason for revoking his license.
The United States deported a record of nearly 393,000 people in the fiscal year ending September 30, according to statistics (pdf) from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). About half were deported for criminal convictions, while the other half were deported for “non-criminal immigration violations.”
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.
While the Department of Homeland Security has taken credit for a significant drop in unauthorized immigration since 2007, pointing to increased enforcement by the Obama administration, the the decline is actually most likely due to the recession, according a new…
Federal prosecutions of undocumented immigrants have jumped this spring, flooding courtrooms in New Mexico and other border states, according to a Syracuse University study released Thursday.
Case loads at the U.S. District Court in Albuquerque have jumped by 54 percent this spring, according to the Associated Press. More …
Does GOP gubernatorial candidate Allen Weh stand to make more money from a crackdown on immigration? That’s what author Jeffrey Kaye suggests this week on Huffington Post. The federal government contracts with Weh’s company, CSI Aviation, to fly detainees back…
Mayoral candidate Richard Romero has weighed in on the debate about whether or not the Denny’s robbery and murder was attributable to immigration policies of the police department.
