Cedar Attanasio, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

Smoke from the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire drifts over Las Vegas, N.M., on Saturday, May 7, 2022. (Robert Browman/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)

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Wildfire conditions returning to NM

by Cedar Attanasio Associated Press, and Brian Melley Associated PressMay 8, 2022

LAS VEGAS, N.M. — After a few days of calm allowed some families who had fled wildfires raging in northeast New Mexico to return to their homes, dangerous winds picked up again Sunday, threatening to spread burning embers that could ignite new fires…

Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza, left, and Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies exit the sheriff's office to address the media at a news conference in Santa Fe, N.M. Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021. New Mexico authorities said Wednesday they have recovered a lead projectile believed to have been fired from the gun used in the fatal movie-set shooting. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

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Sheriff: ‘Complacency’ with guns on movie set

by Morgan Lee Associated Press, Susan Montoya Bryan Associated Press, and Cedar Attanasio Associated PressOctober 27, 2021

A Honduran migrant prepares tortillas and rice at the Pan de Vida shelter for migrants in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, where she and her two daughters are living while waiting their turn to apply for asylum in the U.S., Thursday.

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White House applies tough new asylum rule

by Julie Watson Associated Press, and Cedar Attanasio Associated PressSeptember 12, 2019

FILE - In this June 15, 2019, file photo, migrants cross the Rio Grande illegally to surrender to the American authorities on the U.S.-Mexico border between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso. El Paso has swiftly become one of the busiest corridors for illegal border crossings in the U.S. after years as one of the sleepiest. (AP Photo/Christian Torres, File)

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El Paso already a border hot spot

by Elliot Spagat Associated Press, and Cedar Attanasio Associated PressAugust 6, 2019

Eleven-year-old Leilani Hebben puts her head on her mother Anabel Hebben’s shoulder as they visit the scene of a mass shooting at a shopping complex Sunday in El Paso, Texas.

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Attack that killed 20 at Texas mall to be prosecuted as domestic terrorism

by Cedar Attanasio Associated Press, Paul Weber Associated Press, and Morgan Lee Associated PressAugust 4, 2019

Migrants line up along an entrance to the border crossing as they wait to apply for asylum in the United States, Tuesday, July 16, 2019, in Tijuana, Mexico. Dozens of immigrants lined up Tuesday at a major Mexico border crossing, waiting to learn how the Trump administration's plans to end most asylum protections would affect their hopes of taking refuge in the United States. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

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New asylum rules go into effect

by Elliot Spagat Associated Press, and Cedar Attanasio Associated PressJuly 16, 2019

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, is escorted back to her vehicle after visiting and speaking Monday at the Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas.

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Border Patrol head condemns agents’ offensive Facebook posts

by Cedar Attanasio Associated Press, and Colleen Long Associated PressJuly 2, 2019

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, is escorted back to her vehicle after she speaks at the Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas, about what she saw at area border facilities Monday, July 1, 2019. (Briana Sanchez/El Paso Times via AP)

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Border Patrol head condemns agents’ offensive Facebook posts

by Cedar Attanasio Associated Press, and Colleen Long Associated PressJuly 2, 2019

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2019, file photo, a migrant sits with his children as they wait to hear if their number is called to apply for asylum in the United States, at the border in Tijuana, Mexico. Migrants who are being forced to wait in Mexico while they try to win asylum in the U.S. complain they are being subjected to violence in border cities. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

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Migrants face violence as US makes them wait in Mexico

by Cedar Attanasio Associated PressJune 28, 2019

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 22, 2019 file photo migrants mainly from Central America guide their children through the entrance of a World War II-era bomber hanger in Deming, N.M. A panel of appeals court judges in California will hear arguments in the long-running battle between advocates for immigrant children and the U.S. government over conditions in detention and holding facilities near the southwest border. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio, File)

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Migrant children describe neglect at Texas border camp

by Cedar Attanasio Associated Press, Garance Burke Associated Press, and Martha Mendoza Associated PressJune 20, 2019