**This message will repeat in English below** Estimada familia de CAFe, En estos tiempos difíciles, no he dejado de pensar en ustedes, sus familias y nuestras comunidades en general, especialmente aquellos por quienes ya luchamos, aquellos que se encuentran en los márgenes. Sé que este es un momento de profunda preocupación, ansiedad e incluso […]
DEMING, NM — Community members from Luna, Hidalgo,and Grant counties are officially launching their Census 2020 Get Out the Count (GOTC) campaign to ensure families throughout all three counties in Southern New Mexico are counted in the 2020 Census. The GOTC campaign will include educational components and canvassing efforts throughout these counties in order to […]
LAS CRUCES – Local government leaders Friday extolled the importance of getting an accurate count of the state’s population as America heads into the 2020 census. Leaders pressed citizens to participate, saying funding for federal programs essential to New Mexicans are on the line. They also tried to reassure residents who may be afraid to participate because of […]
A nationwide group of faith leaders congregated outside the Otero County Processing Center in Chaparral to protest reportedly poor conditions, mistreatment and deaths of detainees in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Roughly 50 people including pastors, activists and community members stood in a lot located between the ICE facility and Otero County prison […]
Chaparral, N.M. – NM CAFe will host faith leaders from across the country for a week long Border Encounter. LA RED and LIVE FREE, the immigrant rights and gun violence and mass incarceration programs of Faith in Action, are joining area community and faith leaders to stage a public action at the Otero County Detention […]
We all need each other to have a successful election in Las Cruces this year. For the first time we will use ranked choice voting to determine the strongest support for mayor and city council candidates. While ranked choice voting has been used successfully in other countries and other cities in America, including Santa Fe, […]
By Angela Kocherga / Journal Staff Writer – Las Cruces Bureau Published: Wednesday, August 21st, 2019 at 10:33pm Updated: Wednesday, August 21st, 2019 at 10:54pm Copyright © 2019 Albuquerque Journal The Trump administration is moving forward with a plan to end a court settlement that limits detention of migrant children to 20 days. The new […]
White supremacy and nationalism have been part of US American culture since the inception of this nation. But for those of us white folks born in the Desert Southwest after the “end” of Jim Crow laws (1965) have been able to pretend that white supremacy and white nationalism were a southern issue. Sure, some of […]
“Be quiet, get under the table, don’t breath too loud, I heard the gun shot” Words I heard as a 13 year old girl in middle school as I was a victim of gun violence over twenty years ago. Words you hear during a school shooting that took place here in Deming NM. The […]
By: ABC-7 and ABC News Posted: Jul 13, 2019 10:27 AM MDT Updated: Jul 13, 2019 02:07 PM MDT LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – President Trump confirmed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents would conduct raids on Sunday to deport immigrants with outstanding orders to leave the country. Cities across the U.S. were bracing for […]
