Las Cruces, Mexico

After attending the conference "Justice for Immigrants" at New Mexico State University, I returned home reflective and troubled. We attended panel discussions on the forces that drive immigration, on the role of the media in immigration, and also two ...

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... in this area, and some of them arranged for Fr. Roy Bourgeois, founder of School of the Americas Watch, to speak in Las Cruces last night. I carpooled with Anne, who spent 6 months in federal prison 10 years ago as her protest against this school ...

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Ok we didn't really stay in Las Cruces, but we did pop over there for about 12 minutes, got severly hasseld for change, taxi cabs, medicine, and other stuff in Spanish we didn't understand, then headed back to El Paso. El Paso is pretty mexican anyway, ...

We woke up to ice on the windshield this morning and opted to stay a second day at the La Quinta in Las Cruces and take care of some frustrating business with my former employer. It seems that when I quit, nobody got around to telling the payroll ...