Santa Fe New Mexican, July 12, 2014

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Netanyahu: Israel won’t stop bombing Defending his actions, Israeli prime minister tells leaders, “No country would accept its civilians being fired at without a harsh response.” PAGe A-3

A fly-fishing ranch in the Pecos Canyon claims negligence by the Mora-San Miguel Electric Cooperative caused the Tres Lagunas Fire in 2013. PAGe A-8

Secretary Jeh Johnson tours holding facility in New Mexico, issues warning to immigrants

N.M. HEALTH EXCHANGE

Online market ‘on track,’ but faces obstacles

Homeland security chief: ‘We will send you back’

Unresolved issues may force state to rely on federal website By Patrick Malone The New Mexican

ALBUQUERQUE — Most of the boxes are checked. The New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange expects to have all the technological pieces in place to take over the online insurance marketplace for individuals from the federal government this fall, its outgoing chief executive officer said Friday. “The project overall is on track,” Mike Nuñez, interim CEO of the exchange, told the board shortly before learning that he would be replaced. However, several obstacles remain that could force the state to endure another year of relying on the federal website, which members of the board that governs the exchange blame for the state falling short of its enrollment goals during the first open enrollment period that ended this spring. “I have some concerns,” said Dr. J.R. Damron, chairman of the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange board. “My optimism has dropped.” An unresolved contract with Xerox for call center services that could prove costly to the state, and the absence of a mechanism to seamlessly enroll the 34,200 New Mexico residents who’ve already purchased insurance policies from the federal site www.healthcare.gov are among snags that could force the state to rely on the federal marketplace for one more year. New Mexico offered small group

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Barbara Gonzalez, public information officer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, shows a dormitory Friday that will house immigrant families at the Artesia Residential Detention Facility inside the Federal Law Enforcement Center. PHOTOS BY RUDY GUTIERREZ/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

“ Our border is not open to ille-

By Juan Carlos Llorca

The Associated Press

ARTESIA .S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson visited a New Mexico detention facility housing 400 Central American women and children Friday and warned immigrants that “we will send you back” if they try entering the country illegally. Johnson said the agency is working rapidly to open new detention facilities to house and more quickly deport the influx of immigrants fleeing violence, poverty and extortion in Central America. On a tour Friday of a temporary center at a border patrol training facility in southeastern New Mexico, Johnson said more housing is needed so the administration can send a strong message back

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gal immigration. Our message to those who come illegally is we will send you back.” U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson

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to Central America, where he said smugglers are telling families that if they make it to the United States they will get a free pass. “Our border is not open to illegal immigration,” he said. “Our message to those who come illegally is we will send you back.”

Spain to grant citizenship to Jews forced into exile by Inquisition By Fernando Peinado The Associated Press

MIAMI — Elias Barrocas grew up thinking of Spain as a beloved ancestral home, but one that painfully rejected his Jewish family five centuries ago. Now, he is waiting expectantly for a long overdue homecoming. The Spanish government presented a bill last month that would grant citizenship to Jews forced into exile from Spain by the Inquisition in 1492. The plan, expected to pass easily in Parliament, aims to right a past wrong and honor the loyalty of communities that “do not hold a grudge” against

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a country that forgot them, according to the bill. For Barrocas and many other American Jews of Spanish descent, the emotional link with the Spain of their forefathers was never broken. A number of Northern New Mexicans have Jewish ancestors who fled Spain during the Inquisition and either suppressed their identity or publicly converted to Catholicism. Many of these Cryto-Jews, or conversos, continued to practice their old ancestral faith in secrecy. Barrocas’ parents first taught him Ladino, a language spoken by the expelled Jewish

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After touring the recently opened center, he said staff told him that some of the immigrants told them they were surprised to be detained. “This facility … represents proof that indeed we will send people back,” Johnson said. But without more beds, the department says immigrants caught entering the country illegally will continue to be released while awaiting their deportation and asylum hearings. Right now, they are detained only if there is a place to house them. The administration has requested emergency spending of $3.7 billion to open more detention centers, hire more immigration judges and take other steps to deal with the border crisis. But House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers, a Kentucky

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Santa Fe Greek Festival Food, music, dancing, and beer and wine; 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, $3, ages 12 and under no charge, Pavilion Room, Eldorado Hotel & Spa, 309 W. San Francisco St. More events in Calendar, A-2, and in Pasatiempo

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Former secretary of state rips into AG King Vigil attacks Democratic gubernatorial candidate over fraud investigation By Steve Terrell The New Mexican

Former Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil hasn’t made many public statements since charges against her in a highly publicized fraud case were dismissed. However, in a statement emailed to The New Mexican this week, Vigil tore into Attorney General Gary King, whose office prosecuted her. Rebecca Vigil In an apparent reference to King’s candidacy for governor, she wrote, “No New Mexico citizen should have to suffer under the leadership of Gary King in the future.” Democrat King is running against Republican incumbent Susana Martinez in the November election. Vigil, who went by Vigil-Giron when she served as secretary of state from from 1987 to 1990 and from 1999 to 2006, is a Democrat. A spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office declined to comment. The King campaign didn’t respond to a request for comment. “The harm that AG King has caused me personally and professionally has to be put into perspec-

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911 audio depicts efforts to revive vet Caller voices frustration at doctors’ response The Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE — Emergency dispatch tapes released Friday reveal further details about efforts to revive a Vietnam veteran who collapsed with a heart attack in a Veterans Affairs hospital in Albuquerque. Two calls were made while 71-year-old Jim Napoleon Garcia lay on the floor as an ambulance was called to take him to an emergency room 500 yards away. In the first, a female caller described how the man was unresponsive and bleeding from his mouth and nose. She also expressed her frustration that doctors at a cafeteria table weren’t doing more to help. “We called our rapid response here at the hospital, but unfortunately they won’t respond to him because he’s out of the main medical building,” said the caller, whose name was not provided. She added that the man was being hooked up to an emergency defibrillator. “Paramedics are already on their way out there,” the dispatcher told her.

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