{"id":93721,"date":"2019-06-01T19:09:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T01:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-woman-collecting-baseball-caps-for-immigrants\/"},"modified":"2019-06-01T19:09:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T01:09:58","slug":"cortez-woman-collecting-baseball-caps-for-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-woman-collecting-baseball-caps-for-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez woman collecting baseball caps for immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d4fcf264-ab95-42ce-af9c-fcd195c24200&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1319\" alt=\"Heidi Brugger is collecting baseball caps to send to Deming, New Mexico, to support immigrants recently released in the city.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Heidi Brugger is collecting baseball caps to send to Deming, New Mexico, to support immigrants recently released in the city.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Herald file photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A Cortez woman is seeking baseball caps to support immigrants arriving in the city of Deming, New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Deming declared a state of emergency after the U.S. Border Patrol released a high number of immigrants in the city about an hour west of Las Cruces, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.demingheadlight.com\/story\/news\/2019\/05\/14\/city-council-declares-state-emergency-influx-immigrants\/1196251001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deming Headlight<\/a>. The immigrants had been held in Border Patrol units in El Paso, Texas, and Antelope, New Mexico, the Headlight reported.<\/p>\n<p>The city hopes that by declaring a state of emergency, it can access state funds to meet the basic needs of the high numbers of arrivals.<\/p>\n<p>Cortez resident Heidi Brugger has family in Deming who are collecting baseball caps as a way to protect arrivals from the sun.<\/p>\n<p>Brugger is hosting a collection drive in Cortez and plans to send them to Deming on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>She invites locals with any extra baseball caps to drop them off at her home at 340 E. Montezuma Ave. For more information, contact Brugger via email at <a href=\"mailto:heidivnb@netscape.net\">heidivnb@netscape.net<\/a> or by phone at 564-9481.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:ealvero@the-journal.com\">ealvero@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>collecting caps to support immigrants released in New Mexico<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[21],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-93721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-cortez"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93721"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=93721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}