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Internment Camps and the Immigration Debate

July 19, 2019
Japanese Internment Camps

July 19, 2019 – In 1941, during her fourth birthday party in Seattle, Nikki Nojima Louis saw her father arrested by FBI agents. It was December 7 and the Japanese had just bombed Pearl Harbor. Her father was an immigrant from Japan and he ended up in a New Mexico detention camp. Nojima Louis and…

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The Line: Chile Showdown

July 19, 2019
Line Chile Wars

July 19, 2019 – Red or green? That’s New Mexico’s official state question. It shows just how important chile – ripe or otherwise – is to New Mexicans. So, when Governor Jared Polis of Colorado tweeted that his state’s Pueblo variety was the best in the world, New Mexico didn’t take it lying down. Gene…

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