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I try to invest my time and effort in telling stories that push the conversation to a deeper level. I need your help to keep doing it. Continue Reading
Dozens of groups ask Trump administration for more time to comment on border wall
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The allegations come as the Trump administration is moving ahead with plans to build at least 33 miles of wall or other barriers in the Rio Grande Valley. Continue Reading
Will 2018 be the ‘Year of the Woman’ in New Mexico?
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A growing number of women are running for office, nationwide and in New Mexico. Continue Reading
As deadline approaches, reunification remains uncertain for hundreds of migrant families
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A federal judge has ordered immigration officials to reunite children with their parents by Thursday — but officials’ own data shows that will be nearly impossible. Continue Reading
Rotten meat. Chicken pox. Tearful separations. Migrants describe their experience in federal custody.
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In court filings, more than 200 migrants describe long waits for medical care, minimal access to legal services, verbal abuse from guards and untreated diaper rashes. Continue Reading
Trump administration neuters nuclear safety board
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Under a new order from the Energy Department, a nuclear safety board will have to fight for information about and access to nuclear laboratories. Continue Reading
Incommunicado in South Texas: Migrant parents await reunification in seclusion
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On the brink of being released and reunited with children, migrant parents are held at a South Texas facility in a sort of limbo — not free to leave, but without access to phones or commissary accounts that regular detainees get. Continue Reading
Immigrant shelters drug traumatized teens without consent
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Despondent minors are often pressured into taking psychotropic drugs without approval from a parent or guardian. Continue Reading
An immigrant community haunted by suicide
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A young man’s recent death was followed by other suicides in a Baltimore neighborhood. Continue Reading
NM props up oppressive systems by shunning what’s right in exchange for jobs
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New Mexico could have taken a stand against the private prison industry’s profiting off the detention of immigrants. Instead, we chose jobs. Continue Reading
An immigration fiasco on the U.S.-Mexico border, in one government chart
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The chart lays out what happens to immigrant children separated from the adults who brought them to the U.S. It shows three outcomes. Only one ends in reunification. Continue Reading
From crib to court: Immigrant infants summoned to defend themselves
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The Trump administration has summoned at least 70 children under 1 year old to immigration court for their own deportation proceedings since Oct. 1. Continue Reading
NM government often looks out of state for contracts, purchases
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A Searchlight New Mexico analysis finds growing reliance on out-of-state vendors. Continue Reading
New Mexico is ignoring its own rules on vendor transparency
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New Mexico is over a year late in following a law that compels greater transparency in vendor contracts. Continue Reading
Here’s how Searchlight learned where NM’s vendors are located
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It took seven months, and it wasn’t easy. Continue Reading