New Mexico In Depth discussed the kick-off of the 2025 legislative session during a live Zoom session on Wednesday. They talked through issues they are keeping an eye on, including legislation that may be proposed to respond to the flurry of executive orders newly inaugurated U.S. President Donald ...

Jan 23, 2025 · New Mexico In Depth discussed the kick-off of the 2025 legislative session during a live Zoom session on Wednesday. They talked through issues they are keeping an eye on, including legislation that may be proposed to respond to the flurry of executive orders newly inaugurated U.S. President Donald Trump began issuing on Monday. Join weekly […]

As we close in on a second Trump administration, it is difficult to predict whether the president-elect will deliver on his promise to deport the country’s undocumented immigrant population estimated at between 11 million and 13 million, including 53,000 people in New Mexico. There are so many questions. Does the federal government have the resources […]

Trump directive creates chaos across New Mexico By Marjorie Childress and Trip Jennings | January 28, 2025. Tuesday turned into a day of chaos for thousands of New Mexicans and its elected officials as they attempted to grasp if money for local, regional and state programs and services was frozen after President Trump’s administration ordered a pause of federal grants and loans.“Our phones ...

2 days ago · Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is seeking $50 million for educational programs for Indigenous children in the next fiscal year, and she wants most of it to go directly to tribes, getting rid of a grant process that’s prevented tribal officials from making full use of state funding. “We’ve exponentially increased funding to schools for tribal […]

Jan 20, 2025 · New Mexico In Depth Executive Director Trip Jennings and Managing Editor Marjorie Childress discussed efforts last Friday lawmakers may take during the 2025 legislative session to increase alcohol taxes and to further an ongoing project they’ve undertaken in recent years to reform the state’s tax structure in general. Listen to their conversation here, or there’s […]

Nov 6, 2024 · New Mexico In Depth Executive Director Trip Jennings and Managing Editor Marjorie Childress discussed the outcome of the 2024 general election in a recorded conversation Wednesday morning. They offered perspectives and talked over why Trump won, how the electorate in New Mexico shifted right, how abortion may …

Jan 14, 2025 · According to experts who analyzed the U.S. Census data on the request of New Mexico In Depth, those changes in tax and fiscal policy deserve credit for the decline in the state’s supplemental poverty rate.. Danielle Wilson, a researcher at the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University, said she is “confident” …

Dec 6, 2024 · There are 194 Indigenous people listed as missing from New Mexico and the Navajo Nation in an online portal run by the New Mexico Department of Justice. The portal provides “a comprehensive database for reporting and searching” cases, the homepage reads. But click on any of the individual names and, for the most part, all […]

‘Enthusiasm gap’ benefited Trump in New Mexico By Marjorie Childress, Bella Davis, and Trip Jennings | November 24, 2024. Since the November 6 election, a debate has played out nationally about the degree to which Donald Trump won a mandate to enact his plans to deport millions of immigrants, drastically reduce the federal budget, and eliminate his predecessor’s climate initiatives.