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Border Patrol

Border crisis erupts over holiday with child’s death in NM, release of migrants in El Paso

By Heath Haussamen, NMPolitics.net | December 25, 2018

An eight-year-old boy’s death on Christmas day added to the trauma of an already tumultuous holiday period during which hundreds of migrants were released without much warning in El Paso, sparking a region-wide call for help. Continue Reading

Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi

Rape kids. Cover it up. Avoid responsibility. Lie. That’s the Catholic Church.

By Heath Haussamen, NMPolitics.net | December 21, 2018

A religious organization that has destroyed countless people and families is now trying to avoid the full consequences of its sins — and Santa Fe’s archbishop is lying about it. Continue Reading

Lynn Middle School

It takes a community to educate a child at Las Cruces middle school

By Sylvia Ulloa, New Mexico In Depth | December 21, 2018

January will mark two years since Lynn Middle School in Las Cruces re-imagined itself. Continue Reading

Priests abused people in Native villages for years, then retired on college campus

By Emily Schwing, Aaron Sankin and Michael Corey, Reveal | December 19, 2018

Gonzaga University served as a retirement repository for Jesuit priests accused of sexual abuse in Alaska Native villages and on reservations. Continue Reading

Joaquin Castro

Democrats seek congressional probe into Guatemalan child’s death

By Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune | December 18, 2018

Lawmakers said they had more questions than answers after touring Border Patrol facilities in New Mexico where a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl was held before her death. Continue Reading

Tent city

Agency policing Tornillo tent city lacks experience investigating sex crimes involving children

By Topher Sanders and Michael Grabell, ProPublica | December 18, 2018

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

Wilder Maldonado

6-year-old separated from father tells judge he wants to go home

By Eva Ruth Moravec, for ProPublica | December 17, 2018

The law puts the decision to return to his family in the boy’s small hands. Continue Reading

Ruben Garcia

Family of Guatemalan girl who died in federal custody calls for ‘objective and thorough investigation’

By Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune | December 17, 2018

‘Premature and inaccurate statements undermine the integrity of the investigation,’ attorneys for the family of Jakelin Caal Maquin said Saturday. Continue Reading

Beto O'Rourke

O’Rourke, other Dems urge public to keep Tornillo migrant facility in spotlight

By Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune | December 15, 2018

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

Julio and Brayan

Government reverses course, sends migrant boy back to his father

By Ginger Thompson, ProPublica | December 14, 2018

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

Michael Swickard

The guardians of curiosity

By Michael Swickard, Ph.D. | December 14, 2018

Curiosity is the currency of all learning. What public school personnel should be are the guardians of curiosity. Continue Reading

A statue outside the Roundhouse in Santa Fe.

Who will lead New Mexico’s Public Education Department?

By Robert Moore, for Searchlight New Mexico | December 12, 2018

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

Maria

A court ruling may allow migrant families to be held indefinitely. These families know what that could be like.

By Teo Armus, the Texas Tribune | December 11, 2018

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

Playground

NM foster care company shutting down following reports of safety lapses

By Ed Williams, Searchlight New Mexico | December 10, 2018

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

Tornillo

With contract set to expire, no word on what’s next for Tornillo immigration center

By Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune | December 10, 2018

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

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