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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
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
Despondent minors are often pressured into taking psychotropic drugs without approval from a parent or guardian. Continue Reading
A young man’s recent death was followed by other suicides in a Baltimore neighborhood. Continue Reading
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
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
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
A Searchlight New Mexico analysis finds growing reliance on out-of-state vendors. Continue Reading
New Mexico is over a year late in following a law that compels greater transparency in vendor contracts. Continue Reading
It took seven months, and it wasn’t easy. Continue Reading
The fact that we even care about the personal views of judicial nominees like Brett Kavanaugh is proof positive that we have distorted and enlarged the function of the federal judiciary beyond anything the Framers would have recognized. Continue Reading
State lawmakers are exploring what, if any, authority the state might exert to learn more about the conditions in immigrant detention facilities in Otero and Cibola counties — and if they have jurisdiction to require changes. Continue Reading
The case of Liah Ferrera Amaya shows the extensive vetting immigrant families must submit to in order to retrieve their children from U.S. custody — even if it means putting themselves at risk for deportation. Continue Reading
In letters scrawled by hand, five immigrant fathers detained in New Mexico describe being separated from their children at the border and the uncertainty of when — or whether — they will be reunited. Continue Reading
Parents should have time to make an ‘informed, non-coerced decision’ about whether they want to leave the country with their children, the ACLU had argued. Continue Reading