Secrecy Surrounds Fraud Allegations In New Mexico Mental Health Audit
In June, New Mexico’s Behavioral Health care system was thrown into chaos — the state abruptly froze Medicaid payments to more than a dozen mental health providers after an audit allegedly found widespread fraud.
Those providers served nearly 30,000 patients, but neither the public nor those accused have been able to see the actual audit because the state says an investigation continues.
Now a partial release of the audit’s findings has raised more questions about New Mexico’s decision to go after the clinics.
Former Mexico President Lashes Out Against NSA Spying
The latest revelation of documents tied to former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden is angering some Mexicans. Others say they are saddened but not surprised.
NSA started rebuilding a former Sony chip fabrication plant in San Antonio, Texas, into an intelligence gathering center in 2007. Newly released information tied to the Snowden affair documents U.S. spying from the facility of the email and other sensitive communications of current President Enrique Peña Nieto and former Mexican President Felipe Calderón.
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Rev. Rafael Cruz, father of Ted Cruz, at a Tea Party rally in Floresville, Texas.
Led By Reverend Cruz, Texas Tea Party Not Swayed By Dropping National Polls
Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz gained national notoriety in recent weeks. A freshman Senator from Texas, he’s a Tea Party favorite and led the recent Republican attempt to defund health care reform.
It didn’t work, and national polls show the Tea Party is losing popularity with moderate voters. But not so much in Cruz’s home state. In Texas, it’s not just Ted Cruz but also his father, Reverend Rafael Cruz, drawing crowds of admirers.
“I told my son, 'you know Ted, when I faced oppression in Cuba I had a place to flee. But where are we going to go? There is no other place. That’s why we have to fight for America!'” the elder Cruz told a crowd at a community center near San Antonio.
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Border Patrol Reports Migrant Rescues Increasing In Arizona
New data from the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson Sector show that while apprehensions of unauthorized border crossers in Southern Arizona have basically flatlined, the number of migrants who are rescued in the desert is going up.
"Just the fact that a migrant may be carrying a phone, whereas ten years ago that might not have been the case," Border Patrol spokesman Peter Bidegain said.