Michelle Lujan Grisham ( D), governor of New Mexico, complained to a senior official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security about the state’s lack of Border Patrol agents and the seizure of state-legalized marijuana. A quietly recorded telephone conversation while flying revealed the discovery.
The Democratic State of New Mexico’s governor expressed concern about the effects of marijuana spasms on state-licensed producers.
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” They’re saying ( Border Patrol ) that they’re worried about fentanyl so they’re taking all of our cannabis”, the governor says in the audio recording leaked by X user” Chaos Coordinator”, @idontexisttore,” and they’re detaining people”.
The governor also expressed concern about the lack of Border Patrol agents in the” Boot-Heel” section of the state’s border with Mexico. ” Put them at the border in Sunland Park where I do n’t have a single Border Patrol agent — not one,” Grisham said, “because I’m cranky with the secretary ( DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas ).”
Republican New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez sent National Guard troops to help in border surveillance activities during the Trump administration, according to a report from Breitbart Texas in April 2018. She ordered the appointing of the majority of the New Mexico National Guard members soon after Governor Grisham’s inauguration in January 2019.
” I reject the provincial claim that the southern border has an overarching national security problems,” Grisham said at the moment.
Concerning the seizures of marijuana that is legal in her condition, the government threatened the unknown DHS official. She claimed that the Border Patrol is “boxed in — difficult” and needs to be changed because it is “or I have to give you a notice saying you’re persucting a position, you’re not using your judgment, you’re hardly working with me on immigration.”
Grisham claimed that the secretary ( Mayorkas ) had previously spoken to her about the marijuana seizures and their effects on state-licensed cannabis producers. She said he told her” Who cares, they make a lot of money”.
In the leaked voice, she addressed the DHS established,” I was actually offended by that… pity on him.” She continued to discuss the effects of the convulsions on what she called “baby makers.”
” If they (state- legal cannabis manufacturers ) lose a pile, their company goes stomach up”, Grisham said in the leaked voice.
After being called “feckless,” she begged the standard to fix the issue.
” I got a dirty ( note from the media saying ),’ the government is foolish’ and she is going to allow Biden walk all over her”, Grisham explained. ” I ca n’t have that”.
Grisham’s spokesperson, Jodi McGinnis Porter, responded to the leaked audio, explaining,” This unauthorized and written recording of the governor’s personal phone call reflects what she has previously said publicly — that she is frustrated by national seizures of qualified cannabis products in New Mexico, especially those from little producers”, according to the , Santa Fe New Mexican.  ,  ,” She has expressed the same problems in phone calling with Secretary Mayorkas”.
One of the larger cannabis manufacturers lost a load valued at$ 130, according to executive director of the New Mexico Chamber of Commerce, according to Ben Lewiner, ahh.  ,” If it were a smaller, child manufacturer — a microproducer — that could be the end of their business … and of course, there’s no insurance items in this business that covers that kind of damage”, he added.
He continued to boast that” some of the very best cannabis products” from New Mexico are coming from the southern region and presumably are being interdicted at Border Patrol interior checkpoints.
The Department of Homeland Security’s Spokesperson Erin Heeter wrote in an email that the organization claimed:
Given that marijuana is categorized as a Schedule I controlled substance, the sale, possession, production, and distribution of marijuana or the facilitation of the aforementioned are still prohibited under U.S. federal law.
Consequently, individuals violating the Controlled Substances Act encountered while crossing the border, arriving at a U. S. port of entry, or at a Border Patrol checkpoint may be deemed inadmissible and/or subject to seizure, fines, and/or arrest.
Republicans in the New Mexico Legislature urged the governor to include border security issues in her legislative agenda for a special session scheduled for July. The governor continues to assert that border security if the responsibility of the federal government, the , Santa Fe New Mexican , stated.
