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The Torrance County Commission met for about two minutes Wednesday morning to extend an agreement allowing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to continue housing detainees at its local jail, a little more than 12 hours after the New Mexico Senate voted to ban such agreements.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham plans to sign it into law.

House Bill 181, which eked through the committee on a 5-4 vote, would require CYFD to report to lawmakers and the newly created Office of the Child Advocate about the number and status of such children, and allots $100,000 in one-time funds to facilitate the reports.

Many of the people whose ancestors lived in the U.S. thousands of years before Europeans are carrying tribal identification for protection against the Trump administration’s anti-immigration agenda.

House Bill 99 would also increase standard of proof needed for punitive damages.

Sen. George Muñoz (D-Gallup) on Wednesday said that Senate Bill 19, which he co-sponsored, would give state education officials the time they need to figure out how much money was overpaid to Gallup-McKinley and how they can get it back.

A New Mexico House committee on Tuesday approved a bill that seeks to give the state’s acequias a dedicated funding stream, following several recent natural disasters and challenges advocates say the historic irrigation canals face in accessing public funds.

Despite frigid temperatures, New Mexico’s Immigrant and Workers Day of Action drew more than 500 people to the Roundhouse Monday morning rallying for an end to New Mexico’s participation in federal immigrant detention.

In a 40-0 vote, lawmakers see a ‘first step’ to address New Mexico’s health care worker shortage.

House Bill 9, known as the Immigrant Safety Act, would prohibit government entities across the state from signing contracts to detain people for federal immigration violations. Lawmakers on the House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee voted 4-2 to move the bill.