Lujan Grisham faces twin crises

Governor Lujan Grisham is facing twin crises, as her sexual harassment scandal continues to generate national headlines and a flood of illegal immigrants pour through New Mexico’s border.

Now Lujan Grisham’s fellow border state governors in Arizona and Texas are out with a joint opinion piece in the Washington Post slamming the Biden administration’s crisis at the border and announcing they are sending their respective state’s national guard to help.

Meanwhile, Governor Lujan Grisham refuses to give a second thought to Congresswoman Yvette Herrell’s request to send New Mexico’s national guard to the border.

Surely for the safety of the migrant children being found in NM’s desert, the risk of increased spread of COVID-19, and to protect the safety and security of New Mexicans from cartels, Lujan Grisham will put an end to one of her crises.

Read Governors’ oped here.

Arizona and Texas governors: The border crisis in our states was created by the Biden administration
Washington Post
By Governors Greg Abbott and Doug Ducey
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/14/border-crisis-texas-arizona-abbott-ducey/

The Biden administration recently made an astonishingly out-of-touch statement: “The border is secure.”

The president himself needs to take a trip to our states.

Unlike President Biden, we’ve both been to the U.S. border in our respective states, Texas and Arizona, and the situation is much different from what Washington politicians and bureaucrats are telling Americans.

The U.S. Border Patrol is overwhelmed. Local law enforcement and mayors are calling out for help. Citizens in border communities are concerned for their safety. And nonprofits, left to pick up the pieces of a broken federal policy, are strained.

In typical Washington fashion, the federal government has thrust this man-made crisis on states. But for the people we represent, this isn’t a political issue — it’s a real-life issue.

We’ve already begun to activate our states’ National Guards to the border to assist, but border enforcement is a federal responsibility. So we are requesting federal reimbursement to support this mission to resolve a problem of Washington’s creation.

We continue to support legal immigration. But what’s happening now is not legal, and it needs to end.

Read the entire piece here.