New Abortion Regulations Impact The Border
Getting an abortion will soon become more challenging and more expensive for women across Texas. State lawmakers passed a bill, and the governor signed it into law, that would result in some of the strictest abortion regulations in the country.
This could shut down four clinics along the Texas border, which would also impact women in southern New Mexico and northern Mexico.
Cartel Leader May Be Extradited To United States
Miguel Angel Treviño Morales, also known as "40," is the leader of Los Zetas, one of Mexico's most powerful and most feared drug cartels. Mexican Marines captured him early Monday morning outside Nuevo Laredo driving down a rural road in a pickup truck.
One of the several dozen sacred items sold at auction in Paris last spring has been returned to the Hopi people. The tribe was vehemently opposed to the sale.
In April when lawyer Pierre Servan-Schreiber couldn’t convince a French judge to stop a Paris auction house from selling 70 Hopi sacred items, he bought one to return to the tribe.
"It would be like selling maybe one of your children," Museum of Northern Arizona director Robert Breunig said. "They’re taken care of as something that’s alive. They’re fed. They’re loved. And you don’t sell something you love in that way."
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Choice Of Napolitano As U.C. President Gets Mixed Response From Immigrant Advocates
The University of California nominated Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano as its next president. It was a nontraditional choice, since Napolitano has little experience in higher education.
She does have a background with immigration issues. The presidential search committee chair pointed out that Napolitano was the architect of a policy that protects undocumented students from deportation.
Sequestration Hits Indian Country's Mental Health Services
Indian reservations are being hit particularly hard by sequestration. Centuries-old treaties tie them to federal funds for things such as health care, education and housing, but time and time again those funds are cut.
Mental health services are most vulnerable. Suicide rates in Indian country are nearly four times the national average.
"Since the beginning of the year there have been 100 suicide attempts in 110 days on Pine Ridge," Cathy Abramson of the National Indian Health Board said. "Because of sequestration they will not be able to hire two mental health service providers.”