New Mexico Politics & News

The Daily Signal covers New Mexico politics with reporting on immigration enforcement, oil and gas regulation, crime policy, and border security challenges in the Land of Enchantment.
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    New Mexico Officials Question Border Holding Facility

    SANTA FE, N.M. — Trying to deal with a tide of thousands of undocumented immigrants, as many of 50,000 of them children, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is about to convert a training center for the U.S. Border Patrol in the southern New Mexico town of Artesia into a detention center. But Gov. Susana…
    Rob Nikolewski
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    Why a Chicken and a Mouse Are Stirring Debate in New Mexico

    SANTA FE, N.M.—Welcome to New Mexico, where a colorful chicken and a very small mouse are causing a big ruckus. Last week, four counties in New Mexico joined in a lawsuit stemming from the U.S. Department of Interior and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listing the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened species. The announcement came…
    Rob Nikolewski
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