Four Pueblo Governors Meet With U.S. Department Of Justice Opioid Coordinator And U.S. Attorney
Governors and representatives of the Eight Northern Pueblos Council meet Monday afternoon at Ohkay Owingeh with Justice Department Opioid Coordinator Mary Daly and U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com
Justice Department Opioid Coordinator Mary Daly and U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson listen Monday afternoon to Pueblo governors at Ohkay Owingeh. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com
Governors and other representatives of the Eight Northern Indian Pueblos met Monday Read More
Federal Human Trafficking Prosecutions Increased More Than 40 Percent From 2011 To 2015
DOJ News:DOE Releases RFP For Hanford OccMed Services
DOE News:U.S. Sen. Tom Udall Votes For Major Defense Bill To Strengthen New Mexico And Nation
U.S. Sen. Tom UdallLos Alamos County Council Meets 6 p.m. Tuesday
COUNTY News: Shin: The Black Market For Opioids
By LISA SHINOn Friday, June 22, 2018, the U.S. House of Representatives passed comprehensive, bipartisan legislation, H.R. 6, aimed at the opioid crisis. Rep. Greg Walden described the combination of 58 bills as “one of the most significant congressional efforts against a drug crisis in our nation’s history.”
Here in New Mexico, particularly in Rio Arriba, deaths from opioid overdose have become a daily occurrence, with one of the highest death rates in the Nation. Rio Arriba’s Wal-Mart is fighting the epidemic with Read More
State Auditor Wayne Johnson Sanctioned And Fined
State Auditor Wayne JohnsonGovernor Announces New Ad To Combat DWI
Don’t drink and drive … period. Courtesy photoHSNW: Family Separation Conundrum
Courtesy imageHere’s what we know:
What’s happening at the border? The federal government announced an immigration policy of “zero tolerance,” which means all adults who cross the border illegally between official ports of entry will be criminally prosecuted. Since children can’t be sent to federal jail, kids who are detained Read More
Immigration Education Event Tuesday June 26
Sheriff Candidate James Whitehead Sues LANS
James Whitehead
A lawsuit filed against Los Alamos National Security by Republican nominee for Los Alamos County Sheriff James Whitehead, has been slated for a pretrial conference more than a year from now.
A scheduling conference held Tuesday morning before First Judicial District Judge Greg Shaffer resulted in the pretrial conference being calendared for July 26, 2019 with jury selection Aug. 26, 2019.
Whitehead filed the complaint Sept. 11 in which he alleges breach of contract, implied covenant, good faith and fair Read More
EM Assistant Secretary White Helps Break Ground For New Ventilation System At WIPP
EM Assistant Secretary Anne White, fourth, from left, joins in the groundbreaking of a new underground ventilation system at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant last week. Courtesy photoVice President Joe Biden Endorses Michelle Lujan Grisham For Governor Of New Mexico
U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan GrishamHouse Speaker Brian Egolf On Child Separation Crisis
House Speaker Brian Egolf
Democratic Party of New Mexico News:
Speaker of the House Brian Egolf (D-Santa Fe) has issued the following statement:
“Like many New Mexicans and Americans, I have watched in horror as the Trump Administration has implemented a new policy that forces cruel separations of children from their families at our southern border. There is simply no excuse for this policy, and there is no excuse for the flood of lies that has come from the highest positions in our federal government.
“The Trump Administration has caused irreparable harm to an unknown number of toddlers Read More
Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham Calls On New Mexico Governor To Cancel National Guard Border Deployment
U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham
From the Office of U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (NM-01) released the following statement after several Governors announced they were canceling the deployment of their National Guard Troops to the border:
“I call on Gov. Martinez to immediately recall the deployment of New Mexican National Guard troops to the border and stop providing resources to further President Trump’s inhumane immigration policies. Using New Mexico personnel and hard-earned taxpayer dollars to support an Administration that Read More
Heinrich Amendments For N.M. Military Installations, National Labs, High-Tech Manufacturing Clear Senate
U.S. Sen. Martin HeinrichUdall, Heinrich To Visit Tent City For Migrant Children Drawing Attention To Family Separation Policy
U.S. Sen. Tom Udall
From the Office of U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will travel Friday to the Southwest border to hold the Trump Administration accountable for its inhumane policy of separating children from their parents at the border.
U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich
The senators will visit the site of the temporary tent city for migrant children in Tornillo, Texas and travel to the port of entry in El Paso, Texas.
In the evening, the senators will hold a Keep Families Together community event in Las Cruces.
The two border Read More
U.S. Rep. Lujan Grisham, AG Balderas Jump Into Action Against Family Separation National Crisis
U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham at the border Monday with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to address the family separation policy for asylum seekers. Courtesy/DPNM
DPNM News:
The Democratic Party of New Mexico announced this morning that U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, the Democratic nominee for governor of New Mexico, traveled to the border with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and took on the Trump Administration for its “inhumanity”.
Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Monday, “The family separation policy “is intended, unequivocally, not to just continue to punish asylum seekers Read More
Balderas Leads 21 Attorneys General Demanding End To Illegal, Cruel Immigration Tactics Harming Children
New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas
From the Office of the New Mexico Attorney General:
The deliberate separation of children and their parents as a scheme to deter victims of violence from seeking lawful asylum in America is wrong
LAS CRUCES – Today, New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas called on United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to end the cruel and illegal attacks on children and families lawfully seeking asylum in the United States as they seek protection from domestic, sexual and gang violence.
In recent weeks, Read More
League Of Women Voters Of New Mexico Decries Practice Of Wrenching Children From Parents … Admonishes Politicians Who Remain Silent
By JUDY WILLIAMSThe League of Women Voters of New Mexico decries the practice of wrenching children from their parents, cutting off contact, and holding the parents in inhumane conditions or deporting them without their children.
Is this what America stands for today – ripping kids from parents who are guilty only of fleeing violence in their homeland? Is it not traumatic enough just to make the perilous journey? Shame on the politicians who remain silent. Aside from being condemned internationally, our collective conscience is repulsed by these actions.
We call for Read More
