Chaparral is New Mexico’s largest colonia, ... An immigrant community in the shadow of an ICE internment facility. ... moved to Chaparral in 2002, the detention center didn’t even exist.

The only major employers in Chaparral are the prison and the immigration detention center on the town’s northern outskirts. Both are owned by Otero County and run by a private company ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The American Civil Liberties Union is asking the Biden administration to close 39 immigrant facilities including the Otero County Processing Center in Chaparral, New ...

Complaints from more than 150 people locked in a for-profit immigration jail in New Mexico call ICE’s inspection process into doubt. The people locked inside the for-profit detention center ...

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, a New Mexico Democrat, was one of several lawmakers who called for ICE to stop contracting with CoreCivic for operation of the Torrance County Detention Facility in 2022 ...

The Las Cruces Sun-News also reached out to U.S. Rep. Yvette Herrell, a Republican representing New Mexico's 2nd congressional district, which includes an ICE detention facility in Chaparral.

Homeland Security's inspector general called Friday for the immediate evacuation of an immigration detention facility in New Mexico, citing staff shortages and unsanitary conditions. But ...

Sophia Genovese, an attorney at the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center, said the bill has the potential to halt immigration detention at the largest holding center in the state at Chaparral.

They’re asking a federal judge in New Mexico to declare that their prolonged detention – from nine to 11.5 months – violates due process, and to order U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to ...

At ICE's Otero County Processing Center in Chaparral, New Mexico, immigrants told the committee that guards often used the threat of segregation to get them to comply with orders. Immigrants at the ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — County commissioners in rural New Mexico extended authorization for a migrant detention facility Wednesday in cooperation with federal authorities over objections by ...

They’re asking a federal judge in New Mexico to declare that their prolonged detention – from nine to 11.5 months – violates due process, and to order U.S. Immigration and Customs ...