New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez on Tuesday announced his office filed a lawsuit against the state’s child welfare agency following reports that agency staffers took a teenage boy out of the foster care system and told him to cross the U.S.-Mexico border to reunite with his estranged mother in Ciudad Juárez.
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez is suing the state’s Children, Youth and Families Department after reports CYFD dropped off a fifteen-year-old boy to the Mexican border and told him to cross on his own against his will to reunite with his estranged mother.
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The largest proposed tribal water rights settlement in U.S. history – which could transform some Native American communities – continues to stall. KUNM’s Jeanette DeDios talked about tribal water rights to the Colorado River with Heather Tanana, who is Navajo and an assistant law professor for the University of Denver, Heather Tanana, on New Mexico in Focus.
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DoorDash officials presented to state lawmakers Tuesday about their autonomous, bike-lane-using delivery vehicle, Dot, and how they want to introduce the service to New Mexico. They provided a model law to legislators and suggested certain rules, such as a $100,000 insurance requirement per robot.
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