Local officials ask for border help, Torres Small ignores

Yet another local government is calling for federal help at the New Mexico border, but Xochitl Torres Small continues to only make matters worse.

In an op-ed in yesterday’s Albuquerque Journal, Otero County Board of Commissioners Chairman Couy Griffin called attention to the crisis facing local governments because of Torres Small’s refusal to acknowledge the crisis and political grandstanding:

It is no accident that New Mexico is now the most dangerous state in the country for both property and violent crimes. Our border crisis has two related elements: narcotics and human impacts. They are two sharp edges of the same sword.

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Recently in New Mexico, city and county governments have made outrageous commitments of our tax dollars to support illegal border crossers. Examples include: Las Cruces at $500k, Albuquerque at $250k and most recently Deming at $1 million! Deming made its contribution out of its meager $11 million general fund.

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The narcotics edge of this two-edged blade is a sharper and more dangerous edge. The migrant crisis is a “smokescreen” that the cartel craftily navigates behind, using these poor people to exhaust our border patrol resources. Recent data collected by the Otero County Sheriff’s Department shows a huge uptick in drug seizures. For the month of February $3,500, March $23,000 and April $61,790!

Our secondary Border Patrol Security Checkpoints were closed on March 25 of this year due to a political assault led by U.S. Reps.(Xochitl Torres) Small, (Joaquin) Castro, (Jerry) Nadler and others. It was only a few days after a visit by this entourage to New Mexico that our Border Patrol checkpoints were shut down and their resources were reassigned from monitoring drug trafficking to processing border crossers.

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