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.
A new poll by the Pew Hispanic Center illustrates the divide in the Latino community over illegal immigration and how it should be handled.
Majorities of Latinos say that those in the country illegally should pay a fine but…
Americans are almost evenly divided on the issue of whether children born in the United States should automatically become U.S. citizens, even if their parents are not citizens, a CNN poll released today shows.
The question asked: “As you
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National Guard units will send 1,200 troops to the U.S.-Mexican border along New Mexico and other border states to support for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, U.S. Department of Defense officials announced at a press conference…
Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez told NMPolitics.net that she supports a path to legalization for those in the country illegally while Democratic gubernatorial candidate Diane Denish said she wasn’t sure about the best plan for those already in the country…
The Independent, with KUNM and KNME, hosted a discussion on immigration at the KNME studios. Video of the discussion is embedded to the left and the transcript of the live blog is available below.
Our panelists are Rep. Dennis Kintigh, R-Roswell, who is a former FBI special agent; Marcela Diaz, an immigrant-rights advocate with Somos Un Pueblo Unido; and Dante DiGregorio, a professor at UNM’s Anderson School of Management who specializes in business relations between the U.S. and Mexico.
The odds are not good for any kind of comprehensive immigration reform package making it out of Congress this year.
Gov. Bill Richardson, who supports comprehensive immigration reform, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” this Sunday, “They [Congress] don’t…
The federal government sued Arizona this week for its recently passed immigration law, a seeming deterrent to other states looking to try the same thing. But the feds’ action isn’t stopping supporters of the legislation from pushing to pass…
Increased immigration does not necessarily mean a higher crime rate according to an immigration reform bulletin from the the libertarian Washington D.C. think tank the CATO Institute.
“National studies have reached the conclusion that foreign-born (both legal and illegal…
The United States Department of Justice may file suit over Arizona’s controversial immigration law as soon as today, The Washington Post reports, citing three law enforcement sources. The Post reported that the lawsuit “will invoke for its main argument the…
Mexico filed a brief with a U.S. federal court Tuesday requesting that Arizona’s new immigration law be struck down as unconstitutional, according to the Arizona Daily Sun.
The country’s brief was filed in one of the five lawsuits challenging…
A study by the Arizona Republic has found little connection between arrests of violent criminals and the immigration sweeps that have made Sheriff Joe Arpaio famous.
“While [a crime sweep policy] succeeds in locating illegal immigrants, its effectiveness in combating…
“The most important dynamic is going to be, can the Republicans take advantage of having two Hispanics at the top of the ticket? That’s probably never happened anywhere in the country.”
So says Gov. Bill Richardson, discussing Republican candidates…
New Mexico’s “sensible” immigration policy combined with strong border security accounts for why the state’s political environment has a very different take when it comes immigration, Gov. Bill Richardson told Stateline, a state policy and politics site. But still,…
The 1-cent sales tax hike passed Tuesday by Arizona voters is expected to raise $918 million in its first year. But it’s nowhere near enough to pull Arizona out of its economic problems, reports the Associated Press.
That news just…
Arizona Corporation Commissioner Gary Pierce (the equivalent of a New Mexico PRC commissioner) has written a letter to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa threatening to cut power to Los Angeles if the city doesn’t reconsider its boycott of travel to…
Two New Mexicans have joined a federal lawsuit that seeks to stop Arizona’s tough new immigration law from taking effect in July. Jesús Cuauhtémoc Villa and Vicki Gaubeca of Las Cruces, two of more than a dozen plaintiffs, said they joined the legal challenge because they said they travel back and forth between the two states and are concerned about being pulled over by Arizona police officers, they told The Independent.
The hot-running emotions surrounding the national debate over Arizona’s tough immigration law have had an unexpected effect in Utah, the Grand Canyon state’s northern neighbor.
Gov. Gary Herbert just called off plans for a special session to dilute a just-passed…
Albuquerque mayor Richard Berry announced today that everyone who is arrested in Albuquerque will have their immigration status checked, regardless of race. Berry announced the plan, which Berry characterized as a “not an immigration issue” but “a public safety issue,”…
The New York Times compared the attitudes of New Mexico and Arizona when it comes to immigration, and finds New Mexico much more open and tolerant. For instance, a new law in Arizona directs police to check drivers licenses and…
A poll by Gallup Polling shows that Americans who have heard or read about the new Arizona law are supportive of the bill, although that support is sharply split along partisan lines. It also finds that nearly a third…
