New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) complained to a high-ranking official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in regards to the seizure of state-legalized marijuana and the shortage of Border Patrol brokers in her state. The revelation surfaced from a secretly recorded telephone dialog that happened on an airplane flight.
The Democrat chief government of the State of New Mexico complained in regards to the impression of marijuana seizures on legalized growers in the state.
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— Chaos Coordinator (@idontexistTore) April 26, 2024
“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 consumer “Chaos Coordinator,” @idontexisttore, “and they’re detaining people.”
The governor additionally complained in regards to the lack of Border Patrol brokers in the “Boot-Heel” area of the state’s border with Mexico. “Put them at the border in Sunland Park where I don’t have a single Border Patrol agent — not one — and so, I’m cranky with the secretary (DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas)” Grisham acknowledged.
During the Trump administration, Republican New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez despatched National Guard troopers to help and border safety operations, Breitbart Texas reported in April 2018. Shortly after Governor Grisham’s inauguration in January 2019, she ordered the withdrawal of most of the deployed New Mexico National Guard members.
“I reject the federal contention that there exists an overwhelming national security crisis at the southern border,” Grisham stated on the time.
The governor threatened the unnamed DHS official relating to the seizure of hashish that’s authorized in her state. She claimed the Border Patrol is taking a tough stance and it must be adjusted “or I have to send you a letter saying you’re persucting a state, you are not using your discretion, you are not working with me on immigration, and I don’t want to send that letter but I’m boxed in — hard.”
Grisham stated the secretary (Mayorkas) beforehand responded to her in regards to the seizure of marijuana and its impression on state-legal hashish producers. She stated he informed her “Who cares, they make a lot of money.”
“I was really offended by that — shame on him,” she informed the DHS official in the leaked audio. She went on to speak in regards to the impression of the seizures on what she referred to as “baby producers.”
“If they (state-legal cannabis producers) lose a load, their business goes belly up,” Grisham stated in the leaked audio.
She begged the official to do one thing about the issue after reporters referred to as her “feckless.”
“I got a nasty (note from the press saying), ‘the governor is feckless’ and she is going to let Biden walk all over her,” Grisham defined. “I can’t have that.”
Grisham’s spokesperson, Jodi McGinnis Porter, responded to the leaked audio, explaining, “This unauthorized and edited recording of the governor’s private phone call reflects what she has already said publicly — that she is frustrated by federal seizures of licensed cannabis products in New Mexico, particularly those from small producers,” according to the Santa Fe New Mexican. “She has expressed the same concerns in phone calls with Secretary Mayorkas.”
New Mexico Chamber of Commerce government director Ben Lewiner informed the native newspaper that on of the bigger hashish producers misplaced a load valued at $130,ooo. “If it were a smaller, baby producer — a microproducer — that could be the end of their business … and of course, there’s no insurance products in this industry that covers that kind of loss,” he added.
He went on to brag that New Mexico produces “some of the very best cannabis products” are coming from the southern half of the state and presumably are being interdicted at Border Patrol inside checkpoints.
In an e mail from Department of Homeland Security Spokesperson Erin Heeter, the company asserted:
Although medical and leisure marijuana could also be authorized in some U.S. states and Canada, the sale, possession, manufacturing and distribution of marijuana or the facilitation of the aforementioned stay unlawful beneath U.S. federal regulation, given the classification of marijuana as a Schedule I managed substance.
Consequently, people violating the Controlled Substances Act encountered whereas crossing the border, arriving at a U.S. port of entry, or at a Border Patrol checkpoint could also be deemed inadmissible and/or topic to seizure, fines, and/or arrest.
Republicans in the New Mexico Legislature urged the governor to incorporate border safety measures in her legislative agenda for a particular session slated for July. The governor continues to claim that border safety if the accountability of the federal authorities, the Santa Fe New Mexican acknowledged.
Bob Price is the Breitbart Texas-Border workforce’s affiliate editor and senior information contributor. He is an unique member of the Breitbart Texas workforce. Price is an everyday panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday morning speak present. He additionally serves as president of Blue Wonder Gun Care Products.
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