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Gov. Bill Richardson signed a bill yesterday that prohibits “bias-based” profiling.
The legislation was sponsored by state Rep. Nate Cote, D-Las Cruces, HB 428. It describes profiling as the “practice of relying” on such factors as ethnicity, race, language, disability, sexual orientation or religion in “selecting a person to subject to routine or spontaneous investigatory activities.”

Affordable housing and financial literacy are always issues for undocumented immigrants who may not speak English fluently and may be suspicious of the federal government. But contrary to what you might think, the mortgage collapse has not driven the state’s immigrant community into mass foreclosure and bankruptcy, according to Marcela Diaz, executive director of Somos Un Pueblo Unido, a Santa Fe-based immigrants-rights organization.