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Sunland Park water treatment plant

Report details failures of utility serving Sunland Park, Santa Teresa

By Kent Paterson | July 25, 2016

The assessment was a critical portrait of a public utility entrusted with delivering safe drinking water to an estimated 21,000 people and performing competent wastewater treatment and disposal services that impact the Rio Grande, which is shared by the U.S. and Mexico. Continue Reading

Don Phillips

The great Republican crack-up

By Alec MacGillis, ProPublica | July 19, 2016

Dayton was once a bastion of the GOP establishment. The story of how the city changed helps explain the rise of Donald Trump. Continue Reading

John Sanchez

Congress puts politics ahead of public safety

By John Sanchez | July 13, 2016

Americans and our elected representatives in Washington are legitimately divided on many issues including immigration, but we should all be united in standing up for victims of crime. Continue Reading

Garrey Carruthers

In defense of offering discounted NMSU tuition to Mexican students

By Garrey Carruthers | July 1, 2016

It’s too bad that Fox News’ Tucker Carlson didn’t have all of his facts straight before he went on the air. Continue Reading

Ruperto Escobar

A border rancher explains the art of survival

By Jay Root, the Texas Tribune | July 1, 2016

For more than two centuries, the Escobar family has ranched along the Rio Grande. For almost as long, smugglers have moved people and product across their property. Continue Reading

Traffic jam

Trump’s train, Shadow Mountain and NAFTA’s deadly highway

By Kent Paterson | June 24, 2016

Long waits to cross the downtown Juárez train tracks are just one small part of many transportation bottlenecks currently gripping the Paso del Norte borderland as a new round of development and commercial expansion overtakes the region. Continue Reading

Tomas Martinez

Supreme Court’s tie deals blow to Obama immigration order

By Julián Aguilar, the Texas Tribune | June 23, 2016

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Thursday it had failed to produce a majority opinion on the policy — meaning that the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals’ November 2015 decision rejecting the policy stands. Continue Reading

Jacob Candelaria

There’s no longer cause for concern about your NM driver’s license

By Jacob Candelaria | May 9, 2016

Current New Mexico driver’s licenses and identification cards can most likely be used to enter federal facilities and board domestic flights until Oct. 1, 2020. Continue Reading

C.J. McElhinney

Unfair policy too often results in immigrants losing personal property

By C.J. McElhinney | April 21, 2016

We cannot neglect our responsibility to these detainees to treat them fairly, and we cannot neglect the responsibility we have to ourselves to uphold the values that make our country great. Continue Reading

Omar Reyes

The importance of civil education and assertion at border checkpoints

By Omar Reyes | April 19, 2016

If we as Americans feel like our rights are being violated we have a right to verbalize it. Continue Reading

The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.

Texas to make its case in Supreme Court against immigration action

By Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune | April 18, 2016

Almost a year and a half after President Obama announced his executive action on immigration, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Monday over the program. Continue Reading

Donald Trump

Local Border Patrol union votes to support Trump endorsement

By Heath Haussamen, NMPolitics.net | April 12, 2016

The vote was close — 14-13 in favor of continuing to support Trump, according to an El Paso Times reporter’s tweet. Continue Reading

Donald Trump

Local Border Patrol agents challenge national union’s Trump endorsement

By Heath Haussamen, NMPolitics.net | April 12, 2016

On Tuesday, the agents will ask their local union to reject the national union’s endorsement. Continue Reading

Some feel anxiety about Border Patrol checkpoints; others defend them

By Heath Haussamen, NMPolitics.net | April 11, 2016

My recent column prompted others to share their stories. Several expressed anxiety about the Border Patrol’s inland checkpoints. Others said the checkpoints are necessary. Continue Reading

El Paso, Texas

El Paso doesn’t want ID as ‘Sanctuary City’

By Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune | April 7, 2016

An El Paso-based immigrant rights group could see its hopes for a municipal ID card dashed after leaders there determined that issuing the card could prompt immigration hardliners to label the town a sanctuary city. Continue Reading

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