New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed House Bill 9 into law, which closes ICE facilities and ends all agreements an cooperations with the Trump administration regarding immigration.
“This is not that we’re not going to work with the federal government on serious criminal activity of all kinds. If the federal government is interested in that work in any context, this is a governor that is going to be available to negotiate,” declared Lujan Grisham. “If we are not talking about serious criminals and felons, we should not be complicit in an unaccountable, non-transparent situation with potential for serious issues.”
Except, you know, Border Czar Tom Homan has stressed over and over that the administration prioritizes serious criminals and felons.
Also, someone remind that Lujan Grisham being an illegal alien is a federal crime.
From The El Paso Times:
The legislation prohibits any government bodies in the state that receives public funds from signing agreements to detain individuals for federal civil immigration violations and it would end any already existing agreements.A key amendment was added to the bill in the House Judiciary Committee on Jan. 28 that would block sheriffs departments and police departments from entering 287(g) agreements with ICE, which allows local law enforcement to collaborate with ICE on immigration enforcement.There are currently three privately-operated immigration detention centers in New Mexico: Torrance, Cibola and Otero, which have a combined capacity of holding roughly 2,000 detainees. At least three immigrants have died in the Torrance and Otero detention facilities since 2022.
Torrance County recently extended a contract with ICE and private contractor CoreCivic through April.
“We cannot control federal enforcement, but what can decide on is what happens on our land and what happens with public bodies,” State Rep. Angelica Rubio told the El Paso Times. “HB9 is really about drawing that line … I truly believe that when House Bill 9 passes, the rest of the country will follow.”
We have no idea what New Mexico will do with the illegal aliens currently in custody.
“Without seeing the true content of the law, I’m not sure that the state law can override federal law if there was going to be a federal immigration detention center on federal grounds—that I’m unclear of, because I don’t know the context,” Border Chief Chris Clem told KOAT.
Yeah, a state can override federal law.
Clem pointed out two things that could happen:
“What will happen to those individuals in custody—two things will likely happen. One will more likely be an expedited review of their case. If they have a hearing in a matter of days, ‘let’s get that reviewed,’ so they can make a most efficient decision on behalf of the government,” Clem said.”The other thing which will happen is there’s no longer room at the end, because of the bill. Then they will transfer those detainees to other holding facilities outside of the state of New Mexico,” Clem said.
So let’s go ahead and overcrowd other detention centers and send people farther away from family members.
These people don’t think, do they?
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