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Confusion, tension roil border as feds try to reunify immigrant families

By Brandon Formby and Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune | June 25, 2018

As an El Paso shelter prepared to take in undocumented immigrants separated from their children, President Trump’s tweets calling for deportations without due process drew rebukes. Continue Reading

416 Fire

In the Southwest, ‘drought’ doesn’t tell the whole story

By Emily Benson, High Country News | June 25, 2018

Why ‘aridification’ is a better term for our new, more parched reality. Continue Reading

Children

Kids in exchange for deportation: Detained migrants say they were told they could get kids back on way out of U.S.

By Jay Root and Shannon Najmabadi, The Texas Tribune | June 24, 2018

In a detention center near Houston, an asylum seeker from Honduras said he agreed to sign a voluntary removal order from the U.S. after federal officials promised to reunite him with his 6-year-old daughter. Continue Reading

Cibola County Correctional Center

As immigration debate rages, private prison operators spread cash to NM politicians

By Trip Jennings, New Mexico In Depth | June 24, 2018

Two of the nation’s largest private prison companies have given nearly $33,000 to New Mexico’s congressional representatives and state lawmakers over the last year and a half. Continue Reading

Tent city

Indigenous immigrants face unique challenges at the border

By Tristan Ahtone, High Country News | June 24, 2018

Language barriers mean Indigenous families may be more likely to be split up. Continue Reading

Tom Udall

Udall, Texas congressmen tour tent city in Tornillo

By Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune | June 23, 2018

After seeing the facility, they said nearly 300 minors are there, including several girls and some children whose parents have already been deported. Continue Reading

Letter

‘Not knowing anything about my daughter is torture.’ Immigrant parents describe being without their children

By Jolie McCullough, The Texas Tribune | June 23, 2018

Three Central American immigrant detainees have sued the government to be reunited with their children. On Friday, they sent handwritten notes to the court pleading for information about them. Continue Reading

Tornillo Land Point of Entry

With charges dropped against some parents who crossed border with families, is ‘zero tolerance’ still in effect?

By Emma Platoff and Alexa Ura, The Texas Tribune | June 23, 2018

The Trump administration says it is. But the top federal prosecutor in one of Texas’ busiest border districts has dropped charges against immigrants who arrived with their families. Continue Reading

Border Patrol

Keeping track of what’s happening at the border

By Heath Haussamen, NMPolitics.net | June 23, 2018

If it’s been a challenge to keep up with the news, read this post. It’s a roadmap for what’s happening. Continue Reading

Tent city

Long-standing oppressive systems enable Trump’s cruelty

By Heath Haussamen, NMPolitics.net | June 22, 2018

Going forward, we must fight with the same zeal and unity to dismantle oppressive systems and stop unjust actions by our government regardless of which political party is in charge. Continue Reading

Alison Jimena Valencia Madrid

For a 6-year-old snared in the immigration maze, a memorized phone number proves a lifeline

By Ginger Thompson, ProPublica | June 22, 2018

As the U.S. attempts to reunite migrant families, children will bear the burden of helping to identify who and where their parents are. Continue Reading

The South Texas Family Residential Center

Trump wants to prosecute all illegal border crossings without splitting up families. That will be a challenge.

By Jolie McCullough and Emma Platoff, The Texas Tribune | June 22, 2018

A lack of space and a legal settlement stand in his administration’s way. Continue Reading

Border fence

Amid immigration debate, feds moving ahead with land seizures for South Texas border wall

By Kiah Collier, The Texas Tribune | June 22, 2018

At a briefing in McAllen earlier this week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection told a group of South Texas officials the federal government plans to move forward. Continue Reading

D. Dowd Muska

Where’s the proof that funding early childhood programs works?

By D. Dowd Muska | June 22, 2018

It’s something that should be on the mind of every New Mexican planning to vote in November. Continue Reading

Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller and his wife Elizabeth (Liz) Kistin Keller

Mayors from across the country visit ‘tent city’ in Tornillo

By Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune | June 21, 2018

They included Albuquerque’s Tim Keller and Santa Fe’s Alan Webber. Watch the New Mexico mayors’ speeches by clicking on the article. Continue Reading

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