Posted by Cristina Parker on February 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment
(ANTHONY, New Mexico) — Members of the Border Network for Human Rights and other Southern New Mexico residents are preparing for a Day of Action in Santa Fe to support the current driver’s license law and tell lawmakers that they must not compromise communities. “It’s not a short trip to Santa Fe from Anthony and [...]
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Posted by Cristina Parker on January 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Editor’s Note: The following is a special guest post from Dr. Luis I. Quiñones. Dr. Quiñones is an educator with more than 26 years of experience in public school education and an advocate of dual language/cultural education. He is also an author and publishes Las Razas Peace & Historical Calendar. He is also a cultural musicologist. [...]
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Posted by Cristina Parker on January 16, 2012 · Leave a Comment
(LAS CRUCES, New Mexico) — More than 300 Southern New Mexico residents marched and rallied in Las Cruces today to honor the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr. Most of the marchers were members of the Border Network for Human Rights and where there to show support for the current driver’s license law in New [...]
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Posted by Cristina Parker on January 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment
(ANTHONY, New Mexico) — In preparation for the New Mexico legislative session beginning January 17th Senator Steve Ficshmann pre-filed an updated guest worker bill that is deeply flawed. The Border Network for Human Rights has analyzed the bill and is reviewing its consequences in all its Human Rights Committees throughout Dona Ana County. Some major [...]
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Posted by Cristina Parker on September 27, 2011 · Leave a Comment
(ANTHONY, New Mexico) — In the end, the pressure was too intense. Of the several bills designed to restrict or repeal driver’ licenses for immigrants living in New Mexico, none passed in this special session. Lawmakers in Santa Fe were faced with more than five thousand petitions, hundreds of phone calls, multiple mobilizations and thousands [...]
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Posted by Cristina Parker on September 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Some things are meant to be. Peanut butter and jelly. The tea party and racists. Out-of-state political contributions and Susana Martinez. KRQE in Albuquerque reports that the North Carolina-based, anti-immigrant political action committee, Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, have New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez’s back in the legislative fight over driver’s licenses. From KRQE: Thousands [...]
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Posted by Cristina Parker on September 8, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The media has covered the fact that Gov. Susana Martinez’s family came to the U.S. from Mexico (gasp!) illegally at least a month ago. We have covered the issue here as well. But it looks like Martinez finally went on the record. The governor has tried to dance around the truth about her grandparents so [...]
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