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KUNM News Update
A surveillance helicopter traces a line in the sky above the Southwest border with Mexico at Sunland Park, N.M., Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024.
Morgan Lee
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Ten times as many migrants died in New Mexico near the U.S.-Mexico border in each of the last two years compared with just five years ago as smuggling gangs steer them — exhausted, dehydrated and malnourished — mostly into the hot desert, canyons or mountains west of El Paso, Texas.
Local News
Indian Affairs Secretary Josett Monette, center, talks about the department's response to a crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people on July 15.
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New Mexico In Depth
The public won’t be allowed to make comments at a state-run meeting this week about a crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people.
University Showcase
"Incompatible with Life," palladium prints of a microscope capture of two embryos at five days old. Both were implanted into Rachel Cox's body and did not result in a viable pregnancy.
Rachel Cox
Photographer Rachel Cox went through infertility and IVF and uses images of her own experience to try and normalize IVF – and to empower those experiencing infertility. The show "Notes On Care" is at the UNM Art Museum.
Let's Talk New Mexico
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The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 should have given Native Americans the right to vote, but in New Mexico and other states it took decades more to materialize, and some of the same challenges to Natives voting are still present today. On the next Let's Talk New Mexico we'll discuss barriers to Natives voting and the political power their votes represent.