For Denise Salas, a junior at the University of New Mexico, performing with fellow mariachis at the state’s flagship university for an event commemorating students who are the first in their families to go to college was special.

“It's honestly very special for me, especially because I am a first-gen student,” she said, adding she was raised in the city’s South Valley by immigrant parents.

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