Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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On June 15, 2012, President Barack Obama stood in the White House Rose Garden and changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of young immigrants. By his executive order, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program protected them from deportation and granted access to educational and work opportunities that have allowed many of them to thrive. However, DACA was never meant as a permanent solution. It was a stopgap response to legislative inaction on immigration. Ten years later, the program has proved an unquestionable...
Junior Coffey, who broke racial barriers as a star running back for the Washington Huskies and played in the NFL before spending decades as a thoroughbred trainer, died Aug. 30 from congestive heart failure in Federal Way, Wash. He was 79. “He was a very kind person with a ready smile, and people were drawn to him because he always had a laugh,” said Kathy Coffey, Junior’s wife for 55 years. Coffey was born in Kyle, Texas, and grew up in Dimmitt, in the Texas Panhandle. He had not played sports before high school but was t...
Last year, grocery stores might have run out of toilet paper, but the domestic food supply remained strong. Farmworkers, many of them immigrants who entered the country illegally, harvested fruits and vegetables. They processed meat. They were essential workers. Now they deserve legal protection, and the Farm Workforce Modernization Act would provide it. U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse, a Republican who represents Central Washington, has joined with Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California to sponsor the bill. Its core components...
