This week on New Mexico in Focus, Executive Producer Jeff Proctor speaks with the legal and policy directors from the ACLU of New Mexico about what a second Trump administration could mean for civil rights protections in our state. In their two-part discussion, Jeff asks the two about their specific concerns related to free speech, expression and assembly under Trump.

Earlier this year, Arturo Sandoval, founding director of the Center of Southwest Culture, appeared on the show to talk about his role in organizing the first Earth Day in 1970. Now he's back, talking about how to protect the federal environment laws Congress passed in that era.

Proctor asks two doctors how the tele-mentoring program from Project ECHO is improving diabetes care in rural New Mexico.

NMiF airs on NMPBS 5.1 (KNME HD) on Friday, Nov. 22 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 24 at 7 a.m. and streaming on the PBS video app.

NMiF Segments

Guarding Civil Rights Protections as Trump Returns to White House
and
Public Safety, First Amendment Concerns for Second Trump Term

Correspondent
Jeff Proctor

Guests
María Martínez Sánchez, Legal Director, ACLU of New Mexico
Lena Weber-Salazar, Interim Policy Director, ACLU of New Mexico

'Don't Agonize. Organize'
Correspondent
Laura Paskus

Guest
Arturo Sandoval, Founding Director, Center of Southwest Culture

Rural Diabetes Care Improves With Project ECHO
Correspondent
Jeff Proctor

Guests
Dr. Matthew Bouchonville, Associate Director, Project ECHO
Dr. Tamara Singleton, Family Physician, El Rito

Host
Lou DiVizio

New Mexico in Focus is the New Mexico PBS prime-time news magazine show covering the events, issues, and people shaping life in New Mexico and the Southwest. NMiF takes a multi-layered look at social, political, economic health, education, and art issues and explores them in-depth with a critical eye to give them context beyond the "news of the moment."

NMPBS Executive Producer, Public Affairs, is Jeff Proctor. New Mexico in Focus's senior producer for public affairs is Lou DiVizio. "Our Land" Senior Producer is Laura Paskus. The producer of New Mexico in Focus is Antonio Sanchez, and co-producer is Kathy Wimmer.

Funding for New Mexico in Focus is provided by the McCune Charitable Foundation and Viewers Like You.

Funding for the Your New Mexico Government Project comes from the Thornburg Foundation and New Mexico Local News Fund.

The Neeper Natural History Programming Fund for KNME-TV provides funding for Our Land: New Mexico's Environmental Past, Present & Future.