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The Federal Protective Service, which primarily secures federal buildings, has been charged with responding to incidents at the shelter with 2,800 immigrant children in Tornillo, Texas. Continue Reading
The law puts the decision to return to his family in the boy’s small hands. Continue Reading
‘Premature and inaccurate statements undermine the integrity of the investigation,’ attorneys for the family of Jakelin Caal Maquin said Saturday. Continue Reading
The rule could leave most of New Mexico’s streams and wetlands without clean water protections. Continue Reading
The U.S. government has become a pitchman for the natural gas industry. That could raise profits — and temperatures. Continue Reading
The population at the detention center for migrant children has swelled from a few hundred to about 2,800 in about six months. Continue Reading
The Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains Act of 2018 would allow border counties to apply for federal grants to help identify bodies of undocumented immigrants. Continue Reading
More than 11 weeks after separating a young Salvadoran boy from his father and claiming, without evidence, that his father was a gang member, the Department of Homeland Security returned the boy. Continue Reading
Thursday’s successful test flight is the closest New Mexico has been to realizing the dream it bet on when it funded Spaceport America more than a decade ago. Continue Reading
One of the last relics of federal prohibition may soon come to an end, after Congress two weeks ago voted to lift a 184-year-old ban that prohibited distilleries on tribal lands. Continue Reading
In the coming days, governor-elect Michelle Lujan Grisham will take the first major step to fulfill her sweeping campaign promises on education. Continue Reading
Migrant children are not supposed to be detained for more than 20 days in unlicensed facilities. Texas may be able to license two family detention centers, in Dilley and Karnes County, after an appeals court ruling last week. Continue Reading
La Familia-Namaste, one of New Mexico’s largest private foster care companies, is closing its doors at the end of the year. Continue Reading
Four years after a state commission voted to build a diversion on the Gila River, there’s little to show for the project other than continued confusion, about $17 million in spent money, and a key deadline approaching. Continue Reading
After receiving several contract extensions, the tent city’s operators say they want the government to find a long-term solution. But they also don’t want to abandon the children held there. Continue Reading