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U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) joined other Democratic senators last week in sending a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to expand protections for immigrants before the end of his term.

In New Mexico 30,000 immigrant families were excluded from stimulus checks, unemployment benefits, and other safety net programs which are unavailable to undocumented workers, even if they were in frontline or essential jobs. A coalition of immigrant aid organizations is working to increase assistance to those families across the state through cash transfers, which have proven to be an effective means of helping families stay afloat during the COVID-19 crisis across the nation.

A group of New Mexico prosecutors, defense attorneys and advocates filed a lawsuit in federal district court Wednesday to block Immigration and Customs…

The number of people being prosecuted for illegally crossing the border has risen drastically over the last couple of decades. And the penalty can include…