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1 month ago | 
organmountainnews.com | Molly Montgomery
Molly Montgomery, Searchlight New MexicoThis article was originally published by Searchlight New Mexico. A week ago, on orders from the Trump administration, federal officials began firing thousands of employees at agencies including the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Energy, the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Forest Service, which is part of USDA.
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2 months ago | 
newsfromthestates.com | Molly Montgomery
A week ago, on orders from the Trump administration, federal officials began firing thousands of employees at agencies including the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Energy, the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Forest Service, which is part of USDA.
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2 months ago | 
yahoo.com | Molly Montgomery
Dillon Alexander, a former Forest Service employee, in the Gallinas Canyon above Las Vegas, NM, where he lives. (Nadav Soroker/Searchlight New Mexico)A week ago, on orders from the Trump administration, federal officials began firing thousands of employees at agencies including the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Energy, the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Forest Service, which is part of USDA.
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2 months ago | 
searchlightnm.org | Molly Montgomery
A week ago, on orders from the Trump administration, federal officials began firing thousands of employees at agencies including the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Energy, the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Forest Service, which is part of USDA.
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2 months ago | 
tricityrecordnm.com | Molly Montgomery
A Navajo citizen describes being questioned by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) On Jan. 29, a Diné woman told Searchlight New Mexico that ICE agents racially profiled and questioned her during a Jan. 22 workplace raid in Scottsdale, Arizona. The incident lasted around an hour and a half, she said, and deeply frightened her and her coworkers. What follows is a transcript of her account, edited for clarity and length. I was at work.
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2 months ago | 
sourcenm.com | Molly Montgomery
On Jan. 29, a Diné woman told Searchlight New Mexico that ICE agents racially profiled and questioned her during a Jan. 22 workplace raid in Scottsdale, Arizona. The incident lasted around an hour and a half, she said, and deeply frightened her and her coworkers. What follows is a transcript of her account, edited for clarity and length. “It could have been easy for me to say, ‘You know what, where’s your identification? You’re on my land.’ But I didn’t do that.
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2 months ago | 
searchlightnm.org | Molly Montgomery
On Jan. 29, a Diné woman told Searchlight New Mexico that ICE agents racially profiled and questioned her during a Jan. 22 workplace raid in Scottsdale, Arizona. The incident lasted around an hour and a half, she said, and deeply frightened her and her coworkers. What follows is a transcript of her account, edited for clarity and length. “It could have been easy for me to say, ‘You know what, where’s your identification? You’re on my land.’ But I didn’t do that.
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2 months ago | 
searchlightnm.org | Molly Montgomery
During the week of Monday, Jan. 20, fear spread rapidly across New Mexico and Arizona, spurred by reports alleging that agents from U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are interrogating and detaining tribal members. At least some of the interrogations and detentions seem to be the result of ICE racially profiling people with brown skin. During an incident in Ruidoso, New Mexico, an ICE agent attempted to speak to a Mescalero Apache Citizen in Spanish.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
searchlightnm.org | Molly Montgomery
On October 31, Donald Trump landed in Albuquerque at a private aviation hangar, a location he chose for a rally in part because he owes the city half a million dollars from a 2019 event at the Santa Ana Star Center, and he wasn’t welcome at the downtown convention center. He stepped off the plane, took the stage, and almost immediately began calling immigrants criminals. “They all said, ‘Don’t come,’” he said of his advisers.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
news.yahoo.com | Molly Montgomery
Across from Tohatchi — an unincorporated community in northwestern New Mexico on the Navajo Nation — there’s a depression in the grassland that once was a lake. Senator Shannon Pinto remembers fishing there after school with her siblings when they were kids, before invasive Russian olive and salt cedar trees drank up the water.
