To kick-off the Independent’s new feature highlighting New Mexicans from all walks of life, I connected with Claudia Medina — founder and executive director of Enlace Comunitario, which provides comprehensive domestic violence services to immigrant women.
Undocumented immigration is slowing, but the heightened focus on immigration enforcement has engendered widespread worry among the adult Hispanic population in the U.S., according to the Pew Hispanic Center in two reports released during the past month.
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An audit of Bernalillo County ballots shows vote counting machines have a very low margin of error, differing an average of 1.9 percent from hand-counting, according to the Albuquerque Journal. The audit of ballots cast in the 2006 election was conducted by UNM along with the California Institute of Technology and the University of Utah. [...]