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Suit filed over detainee access Attorney Celia Wang said she talked with the teen at the makeshift immigration detention center in southeastern New Mexico, but at the time, immigration officials had not interviewed the girl about her fear of being sexually assaulted again if she is deported. By Uriel J. Garcia Many of the people detained in Artesia, The New Mexican a town of 10,000, are not being allowed the opportunity to present their cases for asylum, A 15-year-old Central American girl Wang and other lawyers say. They spoke detained in Artesia told her lawyer last month about the issue Friday during a teleconferthat she had left home after she was pushed ence call moderated by the American Civil into a car and raped. Liberties Union.
Lawyers claim women, kids in Artesia detention center are denied legal representation
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Three-time offending bear gets yet another reprieve A female bear’s cub gave her yet another chance at survival after they were captured in Santa Fe. The bears were sent to the Gila forest. PAGE A-7
Also Friday, the ACLU and three other groups filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of women and children held in Artesia. The lawsuit claims the detainees are not getting proper legal representation. The Obama administration already has ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to expedite the deportations of the Artesia detainees. Lawyers want to halt deportations because, they say, some immi-
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Hamas kills suspected spies Gaza gunmen publicly execute 18 alleged spies to stop people from leaking to Israel. PAGE A-3
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Navajo weaver wins Best of Show U.S. considers Syria action, officials say Advances by Islamic State could spur president to order airstrikes By Peter Baker and Michael D. Shear The New York Times
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is debating a more robust intervention in Syria, including possible U.S. airstrikes, in a significant escalation of its weekslong military assault on the Islamic extremist group that has destabilized neighboring Iraq and killed a U.S. journalist, officials said Friday. While President Barack Obama has long resisted being drawn into Syria’s bloody civil war, officials said recent advances by the Islamic State group have made it clear that it represents a threat to the interests of the United States and its allies. The beheading of James Foley, the American journalist, has contributed to what officials called a “new context” for a chalINSIDE lenge that has long divided u An Iraq mosque the president’s team. attack leaves 64 dead Officials said the options and Sunnis pull out of include speeding up and talks on a new govintensifying limited U.S. ernment. PAGE A-5 efforts to train and arm moderate Syrian rebel forces that have been fighting the Islamic State as well as fighting the government of President Bashar Assad. Another option would be to bolster other partners on the ground to take on the Islamic State, including the Syrian Kurds. But U.S. officials said they would also take a look at airstrikes by fighter jets and bombers as well as potentially sending special operations forces into Syria, like those who failed to rescue Foley and other hostages on a mission in July. One possibility officials have discussed for Iraq that could be translated to Syria would be a series of unmanned drone strikes targeting Islamic State leaders, much like those conducted in Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan. Whether Obama would actually authorize a new strategy remained unclear, and aides said he has not yet been presented with recommendations.
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Lola Cody, a Navajo weaver who won Best of Show at the Santa Fe Indian Market with her rug Sands of No Water Mesa, holds her granddaughter, Reese Cody, 21 months, on Friday at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN
‘Sands of No Water Mesa,’ in natural Churro wool colors, is inspired by home’s landscape By Phaedra Haywood The New Mexican
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rom shearing the sheep to spinning the wool to weaving the pattern, Navajo weaver Lola Cody spent almost two years making the rug that won Best of Show at this year’s Santa Fe Indian Market. She said the weaving portion alone took her eight months “weaving every day, up to 14 hours a day.”
The piece measures 8 feet by 13 feet 8 inches and is a “Two Grey Hills” pattern featuring the creams, browns and grays that occur naturally in the Churro sheep she and her husband raise in No Water Mesa, an area in the southwest corner of the Navajo reservation in Arizona. The name of the piece, Sands of No Water Mesa, is inspired by the landscape around her home. “It’s truly an honor to be here,” Cody said
New federal health care rules address religious concerns over contraceptives By Josh Lederman The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Seeking to quell a politically charged controversy, the Obama administration announced new measures Friday to allow religious nonprofits and some companies to opt out of paying for birth control for female employees while still ensuring those employees have access to contraception. Even so, the accommodations may not fully satisfy religious groups who oppose any system that makes them
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complicit in providing coverage they believe is immoral. Effective immediately, the U.S. will start allowing faith-affiliated charities, colleges and hospitals to notify the government — rather than their insurers — that they object to birth control on religious grounds. A previous accommodation offered by the Obama administration allowed those nonprofits to avoid paying for birth control by sending their insurers a document called Form 700, which transfers responsibility for paying for birth control
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from the employer to the insurer. But Roman Catholic bishops and other religious plaintiffs argued just submitting that form was like signing a permission slip to engage in evil. In a related move, the administration announced plans to allow for-profit corporations like Hobby Lobby Inc. to start using Form 700. The Supreme Court ruled in June that the government can’t force companies like Hobby Lobby to pay for birth control, sending the
Santa Fe Pow-Wow The 10th annual event includes Host Northern Drum Black Eagle Singers, Host Southern Drum Southern Crew Singers, gourd dancer Milton Yazzie, and dancer Alannah Tailfeathers, artists booths open and gourd dancing begins at 5 p.m., grand entry is at 7:30 p.m., Genoveva Chavez Community Center, 3221 Rodeo Road, $5 at the door, discounts available.
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Interpol targets Thai ‘Baby Factory’ A Japanese businessman, with at least 16 children, is investigated for trafficking. PAGE A-12
Obituaries Stella Mendoza, 59, Pecos, Aug. 21 Patricia Ann McFate, Santa Fe, Aug. 16 Albino “Al” Montaño, La Cienega, Aug. 20 PAGE A-10
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Friday after learning she had won the market’s highest award. “I never expected this, and it’s been a long journey. Words can’t express what I feel. Thank you, and I thank God.” Cody said her husband “took over everything” while she was working on the piece the past few years. “He didn’t complain,” she said. “He took care of all our sheep.” When she began the piece last year, Cody
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