DAILY LOBO new mexico
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monday
January 31, 2011
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Breaking down borders
by Andrew Beale abeale@unm.edu
SUNLAND PARK, N.M. — More than 400 people from the U.S. and Mexico met at the border fence Saturday in a display of solidarity with people affected by violence in Juárez. The demonstrators passed water and notes across the fence until the Border Patrol told them no objects could cross the border. Event organizer Christina Garcia said UTEP students and professors organized A Day of Action/Un Día de Acción to allow Americans to come into contact with the people in Mexico affected by the violence,. “I know we already hear it every single day when we turn on the TV or we read it in the newspaper, but it’s important for us to see the faces of all the people it’s affected,” she said. Garcia said the students felt the demonstration was necessary to show that people in El Paso had not forgotten the violence in Juárez. “It’s a way for people to not become desensitized, and not to ignore it, and if this is the only thing we can do, we’ll just keep doing it,” she said. “In Mexico they go to a protest and they scream, and they say, ‘If they can’t hear us screaming, we’ll scream louder.’” UTEP student Ana Morales said the activist group that organized the protest started with a few students and a professor. She said the group mobilized hundreds of people through use of social networking and the media. “It’s completely a grassroots organization,” she said. “So, we went from there. We put ideas together, and we started
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Junfu Han/ Daily Lobo Humberto Mac, from Ciudad Juárez, stands on the top of the Anapra border fence near Sunland Park, N.M., during the A Day of Action/Un Día de Acción demonstration on Saturday. More than 400 people came together on both sides of the fence to protest violence in the war-torn city.
Activists: Keep allowing licenses for undocumented by Barron Jones
bjones36@unm.edu UNM students will join activists from around the state to protect
undocumented-resident access to driver’s licenses and higher education. HB 78 will be a hot-button issue at the Immigration Day of Action in Santa Fe on Wednesday, said Christopher Ramirez, a representative for UNM Coalition for Immigration, Race and Social Justice.
by Chelsea Erven cerven@unm.edu
Two Board of Regents positions remain available after Gov. Susana Martinez rejected a regent selection process proposed by the UNM Faculty Senate. Martinez rescinded the process and said it added an “additional and unnecessary requirement not specified in the New Mexico Constitution.” She said in a statement Friday that the process was convoluted. “I believe in the need for a fair regent selection process that is free of politics, but I do not find it necessary to add another layer to an already bloated bureaucracy,” she said. Under the proposed process, universities would form an advisory
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Daily Lobo volume 115
issue 88
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HOWLING FROM THE PIT
Governor balks at new regent process committee to recommend potential regents for the governor to select. Former Gov. Bill Richardson signed the process in a last-minute executive order Dec. 17, just weeks before leaving office. According to Article XII, section 13 of the New Mexico Constitution, “The governor shall nominate, and by and with the consent of the senate, shall appoint the members of the Board of Regents.” Despite the end of their terms, Regent President Raymond Sanchez and Vice President Jack Fortner will remain on the board until replacements are named or their terms are extended. In searching for those replacements, Martinez said the process outlined in the N.M. Constitution is sufficient. “The advisory committee is just another symbol of big-government
“When we talk of immigration issues, we are talking about the larger picture of race, about structural racism, and we are talking
about immigrants being used in this power play,” Ramirez said. If passed, the bill would require applicants to have social security numbers in order to obtain a New Mexico driver’s license. The current law allows undocumented
Laurisa Galvan/ Daily Lobo Drew Gordon screams with UNM students after Saturday’s upset of No. 9 BYU. The Lobos defeated the Cougars 86-77 at The Pit, and it was the first time UNM defeated a top-10 team since No. 3 Utah in 1998. See story page 12.
Egypt in Albuquerque
Off to the races
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