WASHINGTON, June 26 (TNSrep) -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * After Republicans Gave ICE, CBP $70 Billion in New Funding Bill, Agencies Continue to Sit on $95 Billion from Previous Funding Bill As of the End of May, ICE and CBP Still Have $95 Billion in Unobligated Funding - After President Trump signed into law a Republican funding bill that gave Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) nearly $70 billion in new funding, data from the Office of Manageme more PR

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * CHC Senators: Supreme Court's Decision is a Betrayal of TPS Recipients * Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) released the following statement after the Supreme Court's decision in Mullin v. Doe et al., which allows the Trump Administration to revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian and Syrian immigrants. This decision wi more PR

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, June 27 -- The Central New Mexico Community College issued the following news: * * * CNM Ingenuity Selects Mark Fidel as Interim CEO The Board of CNM Ingenuity has unanimously selected Mark Fidel as Interim CEO of CNM Ingenuity, a workforce and economic development arm of Central New Mexico Community College. Fidel, who has served as Chair of the CNM Ingenuity Board since November 2020, will step down from that position and assume the role of Interim CEO effective July 1. He succeeds current CEO Kyle Lee, who announ more PR

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Heinrich, Leger Fernandez Introduce Bipartisan Defenders of Bataan & Corregidor Congressional Gold Medal Act * WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-N.M.) are reintroducing their bipartisan, bicameral Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor Congressional Gold Medal Act to honor the heroic individuals who served honorably in defending Bataan, Corregidor, Guam, Wake Island, Midway Island more PR

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Lujan Statement on Four Years Since SCOTUS Overturned Roe v. Wade * Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) issued the following statement on the fourth anniversary of the extremist conservative Supreme Court majority overturning Roe v. Wade in the disastrous Dobbs decision: "Today marks four years since the extremist conservative Supreme Court majority overturned Roe v. Wade, undermining 50 years of legal precedent, allowing R more PR

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Lujan, Agriculture Committee Democrats Statement on Senate Republicans' Farm Bill Discussion Draft * Washington, D.C. -U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, alongside Agriculture Committee Democrats released the following joint statement on Senate Republicans' Farm Bill discussion draft. "Senate Agriculture Committee Democrats have been clear that a Farm Bill must meet t more PR

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Lujan, Kelly, Colleagues Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Remove Wildfire Fuel from New Mexico's Forests * Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Adam Schiff (D-CA), John Curtis (R-UT), and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) introduced the bipartisan Hazardous Fuels Transportation Assistance Act to help communities and forest managers remove woody biomass-material left behind from forest thinning operations meant to p more PR

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Lujan, Slotkin, Warnock, Booker, Bennet, Fetterman Introduce Legislation to Strengthen Support for Specialty Crop Growers * Supports America's Specialty Crop Growers Who Produce Trademark Crops from Pecans to Chile Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research, Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Cory Boo more PR

DAVIS, California, June 26 -- The University of California Davis posted the following news: * * * Media Experts on New World Screwworm * The U.S Department of Agriculture has now confirmed cases of New World screwworm in calves, sheep and goats in Texas and in a dog in New Mexico. New World screwworm is a serious parasitic fly that can affect livestock, pets, wildlife, and less commonly, people and birds. Adult screwworm flies are about the size of a common housefly or slightly larger. Their larvae feed on the living tissue of warm-blooded  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 26 [Category: Political] -- The Independent Women's Forum posted issued the following news release: * * * New Mexico Mother Says Gender Policy Drove Son Out of Public School * "We didn't want to tell our kids a lie," Santa Fe mom tells IW Features. SANTA FE, NM - New Mexico's classrooms are in crisis, and kids are paying the price. Parents across the state are beginning to speak out and take action. Dana Tapia, a Santa Fe mother, pulled her six-year-old son from his New Mexico public school after he was the alleged target more PR

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, June 25 -- The University of New Mexico posted the following news: * * * NMiF discusses controversial New Mexico Gas Company sale * This week on New Mexico in Focus, Albuquerque Journal reporter Justin Horwath stops by the studio to talk about his bombshell story on the proposed private equity buyout of New Mexico Gas Company Executive Producer Jeff Proctor asks Horwath what he discovered behind some poorly executed redactions and what the newly revealed information says about confidence in the possible sale. Earl more PR

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico, June 25 -- New Mexico State University issued the following news release: * * * NMSU Board of Regents to convene for special meeting July 2 * The New Mexico State University Board of Regents will hold a special meeting at 9 a.m. Thursday, July 2. The meeting will take place online, and a webcast link will be available to view the meeting at https://regents.nmsu.edu/regent-meetings/. In compliance with the Open Meetings Act, copies of the agenda will be made available at least 72 hours prior to the meeting and acces more PR

SANTA MONICA, California, June 26 -- Rand issued the following commentary by associate physical scientist Tyler Hoard to The Hill: * * * The Texas Screwworm Cases Are a Wake-Up Call for U.S. Biosecurity The U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed June 3 what ranchers had been fearing: The New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite largely eradicated from the United States 60 years ago, was back. Within three weeks, 15 cases in livestock and pets have been confirmed across Texas and southeastern New Mexico. I am a biosecurity researcher w more PR

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: * * * Reps. Leger Fernandez, Stansbury, Vasquez Investigate Federal Drug Enforcement Actions that Allowed Fentanyl on to New Mexico's Streets * WASHINGTON, D.C. -U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernandez (NM-03), Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), and Gabe Vasquez (NM-02) sent a letter to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administrator Terrance Cole demanding answers about reports that federal agents and prosecutors knowingly allowed hundreds of thousands  more PR

SILVER CITY, New Mexico, June 27 -- Western New Mexico University issued the following news release: * * * WNMU Regents Approve Key Strategic Initiatives Ahead of Presidential Transition The Western New Mexico University Board of Regents convened for a regular session on Thursday, June 25, with in-person attendance from Chairman Steven Neville, Vice Chairman John V. Wertheim, Regent Treasurer J. Dean Reed, Student Regent Keana Huerta, and online participation from Gregory ("Greg") Trujillo. The Board was joined by the university's executive  more PR