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July 13, 2014
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Backlogged immigration courts face new deluge LOS ANGELES (AP) — Adolescent girls in braids and pigtails and teenage boys wearing jeans and sneakers sat alongside their parents in the courtroom of Immigration Judge Frank Travieso to hear how long they might be allowed to stay in the United States. T ravieso grabbed four thick books and dropped each one on his desk with a thud, warning the families in his Los Angeles courtroom about the thousands of pages of immigration
laws and interpretations that could affect their cases and urging them to get a lawyer. “This is even smaller print,” he said of the 1,200page book containing regulations during the hearing last month. “I am not trying to scare you, but I’m trying to ensure your children get a full and fair hearing.” He then sent them on their way and told them to report back in February. The scene is one that could become more common as the country’s
already backlogged immigration courts brace for a deluge of tens of thousands of Central American children arriving at the U.S.Mexico border in recent months. The court system is so overwhelmed that it can currently take three years to get a hearing, and many believe the delays will only get worse in the months ahead. For many immigrants, the delays in the court system work in their favor because they know they have so long before
their cases are resolved.
“This situation just happens to be a magnitude unlike anything we have ever seen,” said Lauren Alder Reid, counsel for legislative and public affairs at the U.S. Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review, which runs the courts. Immigration courts in the United States have long been troubled. The courts, overseen by the DepartSee IMMIGRATION, Page A7
House chairman: $3.7B border request ‘too much’ WASHINGTON (AP) — A key Republican said Friday that President Barack Obama’s multibillion-dollar emergency request for the border is too big to get through the House, as a growing number of Democrats rejected policy changes Republicans are
Triathletes take a plunge into Lea Lake during the 31st annual Bottomless Triathlon Saturday at Bottomless Lakes State Park. A record number of 150 men, women and children competed in the three-stage event.
The developments indicated that Obama faces an uphill climb as he pushes Congress to approve $3.7 billion to See REQUEST, Page A7
Triathlon sees record number of competitors
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demanding as their price for approving any money.
Overcast morning skies provided a nearly ideal setting for the 31st annual Bottomless Triathlon Saturday at Bottomless Lakes State Park. A record number of 150 men, women and children competed in the three-stage event in which each athlete swam, biked and ran the scenic course around Bottomless Lakes. Athletes began in Lea Lake with a 400-meter swim, followed by an 8-mile bike ride on the park’s perimeter road and ending with a 2.5 mile run. Portales dairy farmer Gage Bonestroo was the overall men’s winner in the
shorter triathlon, often called a sprint triathlon, with a runaway time of 44:22. “I liked the whole course,” Bonestroo said. “This course is fun. It’s a natural. The water is super clean. Running with the lakes below, it’s beautiful, it’s awesome. It was a good day to run with the cloud cover. I don’t think it got over 80.” Bonestroo, 29, said his secret to success is simple: Drink milk. “That’s my secret,” he said. Bonestroo participated in the Bottomless Triathlon in 2011 and 2012, but Saturday was the first time he
Ranch suing electric Bill would allow states to manage wild horses co-op over 2013 fire
SANTA FE (AP) — A historic fly-fishing ranch near Pecos says an electric cooperative’s negligence led to a 2013 wildfire that destroyed thousands of acres of forest, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported Friday. Cow Creek Ranch filed a complaint against the Mora-San Miguel Electric Cooperative in state District Court. In the complaint, the ranch says the cooperative failed to remove a tree that fell on a power line. Ranch representatives said the tree was more than 150 feet tall and had been dead for several years before the blaze. Mora-San Miguel discouraged landowners from having such “danger trees” removed out of fear for its equipment.
The ranch is seeking actual and punitive damages.
Cow Creek says in court documents that the fire damage to the ranch’s property as well as related lakes, ponds and other habitats was devastating, “virtually destroying the income derived from the management and operation of the ranch.” Ranch owners said they have had to lay of f employees as a result and are facing a loss of income for the next three to five years. No one at the cooperative, which is closed Saturdays, was immediately available for comment. The co-op serves customers in Mora, San Miguel, Guadalupe and Santa Fe counties.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Utah congressman has introduced legislation to allow Western states and American Indian tribes to take over management of wild horses and burros from the federal government. Rep. Chris Stewart said the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has mismanaged the animals on public rangelands and states should have the option of managing them. An overpopulation of horses is pushing cattle off the range, the Republican lawmaker said, and leading to the destruction of important habitat for native species. “States and tribes already successfully manage large quantities of wildlife within their borders,” Stewart said in a statement. “If horses and burros were under that
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In this May 17, 2007, file photo, manes flow in the wind on some of the mustangs on a wild horse conservation refuge in Lantry, S.D.
same jurisdiction, I’m confident that new ideas and opportunities would be developed to manage the herds more successfully than the federal government.” But Anne Novak, executive director of Californiabased Protect Mustangs, said her group opposes the legislation because it
would lead to states and tribes killing the animals or selling them of f for slaughter for human consumption. The gover nment is rounding up too many mustangs while allowing livestock to feed at taxpayer expense on the same rangeland scientists say is being overgrazed, she said.
Jewelry business brings Moran from Canada to Roswell BY RANDAL SEYLER RECORD STAFF WRITER
It was silver jewelry that first drew Fred Moran to the Land of Enchantment, and now some 20-odd years later, Moran is still in the jewelry business — but that is not what he is known for in Chaves County political circles. Moran is wrapping up his second, and he says final, two-year stint as chairman of the Chaves County Democratic Party.
Moran is known as a vocal proponent of Democrats and their ideals, but he is also a successful businessman. As president and CEO of Rich Glo Products, Moran runs a corporation that supplies jewelry cleaning products. Now a U.S. citizen, Moran is originally from Grand Falls, New Brunswick, Canada. He came to the country on an H-1B Visa and it took 10 years for him to become a full citizen. Moran was a
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successful jewelry salesman specializing in Native American Jewelry from the Southwest. “I was making trips to Albuquerque several times a year,” Moran recalled, “and I always thought this was one of the most beautiful places in the world.” Moran had several large stores in Canada that sold fine silver jewelry he imported, and his salespeople would use a polishing glove when handling the jewelry to prevent the silver
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from tarnishing. “People kept asking me where they could get the polishing glove, and that is when I got the idea to start selling jewelry care products.” Moran moved to New Mexico in the early 1990s, and started Rich Glo Products here in Roswell. Rich Glo has been supplying jewelry merchants and manufacturers with quality jewelry care products for more than 30 years, according to the
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“We’ve had firsthand experience with states and tribes managing wild horses, and it’s horribly cruel,” Novak said in a statement. “They ruthlessly remove wild horses and sell them to kill-buyers at auction. Severe animal abuse would be the result of the (legislation).” The Bureau of Land Management says it’s doing all it can, given budget constraints, overflowing holding pens and a distaste for the politically unpopular options of either ending the costly roundups or slaughtering excess horses. The bill’s introduction comes at a time when the bureau has been under increasing pressure from ranchers to remove horses that they say threaten livestock and wildlife on rangelands already damaged by drought.
company website.
Rich Glo jewelry care products are effective and easy to use, and the products have been mastered by maintaining rigid quality standards.
Not only does Rich Glo sell jewelry cleaning solutions and polishing cloths, the company can also provide branded products for jewelry stores and companies to sell under their own
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