ALBUQUERQUE, JANUARY 7—Today, Congress successfully passed the Laken Riley Act, with unanimous support from Republicans and 48 Democrats backing the legislation. However, New Mexico’s Democrat representatives—Gabe Vasquez, Melanie Stansbury, and Teresa Leger Fernandez—once again voted against this vital legislation. Their decision to oppose the Laken Riley Act, designed to protect New Mexicans from the consequences of an open border, is particularly disturbing for representatives of a border state. This bill is crucial for holding illegal immigrants accountable for their crimes and preventing future victims.
The Laken Riley Act, named in memory of a tragic victim of crime, nursing student Laken Riley, who was killed by an illegal immigrant while jogging at the University of Georgia, has been brought forth in the 119th Congress as an urgent response to ongoing border violence and crime. This legislation represents a decisive step towards ensuring that criminals who take advantage of the open border and then commit crimes in our country are able to be detained and deported.
In response to the representatives’ vote, Ash Soular, a spokeswoman for the Republican Party of New Mexico, stated, “The Democrat Party has made it clear they stand in complete contrast to the Republican Party when it comes to crime and border security. All three Democrat representatives, and also including Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, want a New Mexico where illegal immigrants can commit vicious crimes like murder, rape and theft without fear of punishment. The refusal of our Democrat representatives to support the Laken Riley Act, not once but twice, sends a dangerous message that they prioritize the interests of those who break our laws over the citizens they are supposed to protect. Republicans support ending the lawless open border, reinforcing legal immigration pathways, and putting the needs of New Mexicans first.”
As crime rates continue to soar and communities face increasing threats, the call for stronger immigration enforcement has never been more urgent and New Mexico Republicans will continue to prioritize legislation that protects our communities and holds criminals accountable in the upcoming legislative session.
Few readers will agree with this GOP fact-free fear-mongering.
Fact: Congress did not pass the act, the House of Representatives did, and the bill now goes to the Senate. Do NM GOP writers not proofread, or do they not know how laws are passed?
Fact: Crime rates are down, especially violent crimes.
Fact: Citizens born in the US have higher crime rates than immigrants.
Fact: Democrats prefer to help people, families and businesses in the borderlands, not tell lies about a crisis that does not exist.
Fact: NO PARTY wants to raise crime rates or help criminals avoid accountability. (Well maybe except for MAGA support for felon Trump and his 1/6 insurrectionists.)
Fact: This vote is good example of why NM voters send Democrats to congress.
Omitted this fact: Border crossings are down from the Trump years.
“Congress did not pass the act, the House of Representatives did”, first of all, the United States House of Representatives is Congress. They are the ones who make the laws, not the U.S Senate. Dummy. “Citizens born in the U.S have higher crime rates than immigrants”, no that is a lie. If you actually have seen what’s been going on in the United States of America with the border crisis and the 21 million plus illegal immigrants invading our country right now, you would know that the crime rate is higher among illegal immigrants than citizen born U.S citizens. Or else how would you explain the thousands of Americans who have died because of fentanyl brought into the United States by the United States by Mexican drug cartels? And the thousands of innocent Americans like Laken Riley who have been murdered and raped, etc by illegal immigrants? Explain that. “Democrats prefer to help people, families and businesses in the borderlands, not tell lies about a crisis that doesn’t exist”. When you say that the border crisis “doesn’t exist” you are openly supporting the invasion of 21 million plus illegal immigrants including terrorists from Hamas, Haitians and other groups of illegals who can’t speak the language of the United States of America, English, who are getting free housing, free food stamps, free Social Security benefits, VA benefits, before our actual hard-working Americans who have to go through hoops and loops just to get food stamps and Social Security benefits and VA benefits and housing. And Democrats don’t care about helping people or families or businesses from the border crisis. They are the ones who caused it in the first place. Remember four years ago when Joe Biden took office and he reversed all of Trump’s border policies like Title 42 and Remain In Mexico policy and the border wall that actually helped to secure the border from the invasion of 21 million plus illegal immigrants? By the way, Democrats even say that reversing Title 42 was a bad idea. What does that tell you? Maybe you should think about the next time you want to start claiming stuff that aren’t true. By the way, reason why you are even saying all the stuff your saying is because you haven’t been watching the news or have been to the border have you? “Crime rates are down, especially violent crimes”. Nope, that’s a lie and actual statistics from independent and non-partisan studies and organizations including the FBI proves it. “Violent crime went up, not down under Biden(Yahoo News, 2024), “Violent crime has recently been increasing in the United States”(Department of Criminology, 2022), and so on. So, the claim that violent crime is declining in the United States? That is a lie and actual statistics from the FBI and other organizations prove it. “NO PARTY wants to raise crime rates or help criminals avoid accountability. (Well maybe except for MAGA support for ‘felon’ Trump and his insurrectionists).” OK, no party wants to raise crime rates or help criminals avoid accountability……… except for the Democratic Party because Democratic DAs and judges across the United States including in Los Angeles and other Democratic cities are releasing criminals of all kinds back onto the streets to commit more crimes or the same crimes over and over again and the Democratic Party is the party that has caused the border crisis that you say doesn’t exist that is causing 21 million illegals including criminals and murderers and child rapists, etc to invade our country and kill and rape innocent Americans like Laken Riley and cause thousands of Americans to die from fentanyl caused by the Mexican drug cartels who are smuggling unprecedented amounts of fentanyl into the United States of America. That’s raising the crime rates in the United States. And second of all, the fact that you still think that Trump and his supporters supposedly invited an insurrection on January 6 when in reality they were peacefully and patriotically protesting the results of an election because that is the First Amendment and the fact that you put them in prison just for that shows your ignorance. You want to know the real definition of insurrection? There’s a guy who works at the Pentagon, who is plotting as we speak a coup against Donald Trump. A coup, an insurrection. You know, what you think happened on January 6 of 2021? This man who works at the Pentagon is plotting a coup, an insurrection against Donald Trump and he has been caught on video plotting this. He claims that he is doing this to “protect the people from Trump”, or in other words, this top Pentagon official wants to commit a coup, and insurrection against Trump because he hates Trump because he actually supports the true values of the United States of America like freedom of speech, supporting Israel, school choice, the Second Amendment, securing the border to prevent the invasion of 21 million plus illegal immigrants including terrorists from Hamas, murderers, Haitians and other groups of illegals who can’t speak the language of the United States of America English who are getting free housing, free food stamps, free Social Security, free VA benefits before our actual hard-working American citizens, serial killers, child rapists, etc into this country, who actually supports and defends Israel and it’s people from the terrorist group Hamas and the Palestinians who have voted and have elected into their own government for years and who supports the true Islamic religion that says that all homosexuals and Jews and Christians are scum and should be targeted and or killed including beheaded on national or international television for their faith or sexuality, and so on. So, this top Pentagon official wants to commit a coup, and insurrection, against Donald Trump because he thinks that it will “protect people from him”. If that’s not a true insurrection, I don’t know what it is. And he says that he wants to do this to “protect people from Trump”. This top Pentagon official therefore is not only plotting to commit a coup, and insurrection against Donald Trump, but he is plotting to commit a coup, and insurrection, against every single American who supports the true values of this country aka actual hard-working Americans themselves. He is advocately plotting to commit a coup, and insurrection against his own people. That is what this top Pentagon official is plotting. Why does that sound so familiar? Because that’s what happened on January 6 of 2021. Democrats in this country, Americans, plotted to put in prison, surpress, to silence, to censor, the First Amendment rights of other Americans who peacefully and patriotically assembled and whom peacefully and patriotically protested the results of an election as Americans are supposed to do because that is the definition of the First Amendment and you Democrats, Americans, went after your own people by suppressing and silencing and censoring and putting into prison Americans who were peacefully and patriotically protesting the results of an election as Americans are supposed to do because that is freedom of speech and the First Amendment. That is what you did. And now a top official at the Pentagon wants to do the same thing. He is plotting, planning, to commit a coup, and insurrection against the people of the United States of America just by doing to Donald Trump because he hates Trump and his supporters and other common sense minded Americans who support the true values of this country and hates what this country stands for. That is insurrection. You can call what happened on January 6 of 2021 and insurrection all you like. But, what this top Pentagon official is plotting? That is the true definition of an insurrection. He wants to overthrow the President of the United States of America, that being Trump soon, and therefore he wants to overthrow the true values of this country that has made this country so great including freedom of speech and the Judeo-Christian values of this country and supporting Israel and school choice and the Second Amendment and other true values of the United States of America. If that’s not a insurrection, I don’t know what it is. This is why the percentage of Americans joining the military has been so low in recent years. This is why the trust in the Democratic Party and the mainstream media platforms like MSNBC and CNN and ABC News and Medias Touch and CBS News is at record loss. This is why Trump won the election with the highest percentage of votes probably in history. Americans are fed up with the rising crime in the United States because of the border crisis due to the open border policies of the Democratic Party. Americans are fed up with the rising food and gas and housing prices due to the inflation due to the Democratic Party. And so on. And the thing about “this is a good example of why NM voters send Democrats to Congress” tells me that they don’t care about the United States of America and what it stands for either. Let’s face it. Democrats and Democratic voters including in NM? You screwed up. Big time. You’ve screwed up on everything; the border, protecting women’s sports and women’s rights, protecting children and parents, etc. You have screwed up on everything. You have had the opportunity of not only once but twice to support the Laken Riley Act which is designed to deport all illegal immigrants who commit atrocious acts on innocent Americans just like Laken Riley including terrorist acts, murder, rape, etc. And you screwed it up. Instead, you want illegal immigrants to commit atrocious acts including terrorist acts, murder, rape, etc on innocent Americans like Laken Riley. That is what you want. You have screwed up on securing the border from these people. And you wonder why you lost the presidency and Congress and the U.S Senate.
And, you also want to know how the top Pentagon official who is plotting to commit a coup, an insurrection against Donald Trump and the people of the United States sounds familiar? This is what Adolf Hitler, whom you leftists compare to Trump because you hate Trump that he actually supports the true values of this country and you don’t, did in 1933 so that he could be installed, not elected, but installed, much like Kamala Harris was installed after Biden stepped down without holding a primary and therefore taking away the right of Democrats to vote, as the leader of Nazi Germany. And how did Hitler do this? By installing the Strength Through Joy initiative, a far-left, socialist, communist Nazi propaganda tool used to brainwash the masses into believing that Nazism, socialist and communism is a good thing and that if you don’t agree with that, you will be punished by being put into concentration camps or put into prison or worse, exterminated, by him and the Nazis. This is how Hitler was installed into being the leader of Nazi Germany. Why do you think that the Holocaust happened? Six million Jews were exterminated, put into concentration camps, because they had “the audacity to oppose” the radical far-left, socialist and communist Nazi doctrine of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. This is what the Democrats in this country have done to us conservatives or common sense minded Americans. We’ve been targeted, assaulted, persecuted, jailed or put into prison, or even killed and silenced and censored by Democrats, the Left, and mainstream media platforms like MSNBC and CNN and ABC News and Big Tech programs like Facebook, like Twitter, etc because we dared to oppose, to challenge the radical far-left gender, open border policies, woke ideology, etc of the Democratic Party and the Left and the mainstream media platforms like MSNBC and CNN and ABC News and CBS News. This is exactly what happened in Nazi Germany. This is exactly what has happened in democracies or social democracies aka socialist and or communist and or terrorist-led countries like Ukraine and Palestine and Venezuela and Russia and China and North Korea and Iran and Canada. These countries have seen mass censorship of free speech, mass starvations, mass exterminations, famines, mass disarmament, hyperinflation, and so on. And now, the Democrats and the Left and mainstream media platforms like MSNBC and CNN and ABC News in this country all want the United States of America to become just like one of them. And now this top Pentagon official wants it too. This is why the trust in the mainstream media platforms like MSNBC and CNN and ABC News and CBS News and NBC News are at record lows in this country. This is why the trust in the current President Joe Biden is at record lows, including among members of his own party. This is why the trust in Congress and the United States Senate is at record lows. This is why trust in the Pentagon and other U.S governmental organizations are at record lows. A top Pentagon official wanting, plotting to commit a coup, an insurrection onto the people of the United States of America through Trump just for the fact that that top Pentagon official, just like the mainstream media platforms like MSNBC and CNN and ABC News and CBS News and NBC News and Democrats and leftist figures in this country hate Trump and his supporters and other common sense minded Americans because they support the true values of this country like freedom of speech, supporting Israel, school choice, the fact that they want to secure the border to prevent the invasion of 21 million plus illegal immigrants including terrorists from Hamas and murderers and Haitians and other groups of illegals who can’t speak the language of the United States who are getting free housing, free food stamps, free Social Security benefits, free healthcare, etc child rapists from destroying our country, etc. You want to commit a coup, an insurrection, against not only Trump, but your own people, the people of the United States of America, just because you don’t like Trump because he actually supports the true values of this country and you don’t. And you are willing to install a person as President of the United States, most likely Kamala Harris or someone like her, who doesn’t care about the United States of America or what it stands for, who want open borders allowing 21 million plus illegal immigrants to invade our country and ruin our country, who wants Israel obilerated by Iran aka Hamas aka Hezbollah aka the Palestinians, who are all the same people, who wants men to compete in women’s sports and change in women’s locker rooms and nearly kill women in women’s sports, who wants to perform gender reassignment surgery on little children and to mutilate their bodies to further a gender ideology that doesn’t work, and so on. That is what you want, so you are willing to commit a coup, an insurrection, something that you are supposedly against, in order to get rid of Trump, to target Trump, and not only him, but you are willing to commit a coup, an insurrection, onto the citizens of the United States of America in order to get rid of Trump, therefore getting rid of the true values of this country that has made this country so great for so long. You are willing to supress the true values of this country in order to commit a coup, an insurrection, against Donald Trump and therefore the people of the United States of America and it’s true values and what it stands for, your own people by the way, because you hate Trump. So you are willing to overthrow the United States government, therefore willing to overthrow the true values of this country which Trump and the majority of Americans represent, in order to install someone who doesn’t care about the United States and what it stands for and also to brainwash the masses into believing that men competing in women’s sports and changing in women’s sports is the way to go, that murdering human babies in the womb, but especially including up to and including birth and after birth because you think that human babies are not humans at all is the way to go, that funding money and supplies to the Palestinians who are very much like Iran the largest sponsor of terrorism on Earth who are also very much like Hamas, who are also very much like Hezbollah in that they represent the true Islamic religion that says that all homosexuals and Jews and Christians, etc are scum and that they should be targeted and or killed including beheaded on national or international television for their faith or sexuality and have a charter, known as the Hamas Covenant which states that not only Hamas should exterminate Jewish people for their faith, but states that the Palestinians should also target, assault, kill, exterminate and or annihilate the Jewish people for their faith and that they should annihilate the nation of Israel and the United States of America and it’s people, is the way to go, that little five year old children should have gender reassignment surgery aka have their bodies mutilated, abused, to further a agenda that there are supposedly more than two genders and that little children supposedly can make their own decisions to have gender reassignment surgery and that they are supposedly born in the wrong body or are the wrong gender is the way to go. And so on. You Democrats whom you call yourselves Americans, that top Pentagon official who calls himself an American, the mainstream media figures in this country who work for MSNBC, CNN, CBS News, etc who call yourselves Americans, are willing to overthrow the true values of this nation, to overthrow the United States government, to overthrow what the United States stands for, to commit a coup, an insurrection, against not only Donald Trump, but the people of the United States of America, your own people, just because you hate Trump and other Americans who support the true values of this country and you don’t, and you are willing to install someone who doesn’t care about the United States of America or what it stands for, like Kamala Harris. That is how socialism or communism starts. It happened with Hitler in 1933. It happened with Idi Amin in 1971. It happened with Mao-tse Tung in 1949. It happened with Benito Mussolini. It happened with Vladimir Lenin. All of those dictators were installed because they overthrew the government and because they committed a coup, an insurrection, against the people of their own countries. Then they implemented, installed socialist, communist, and fascist propaganda tools like Strength Through Joy in order to brainwash the masses into believing that Nazism or Communist Chinese or radical far-left socialist Soviet initiatives were a good thing. And now, our own people in our own government and in our own mainstream media platforms like MSNBC, want to do the same thing. And you wonder why people are leaving the Democratic Party and the Left and you wonder why the trust in the mainstream media platforms like MSNBC and CNN and ABC News and CBS News are at all time lows, why the trust in Congress is at an all time low, why the trust in the Democratic Party in the United States is at an all time low, and you wonder why the Democratic Party and the Left in the United States lost the presidency and Congress and the United States Senate.
You r one of the reasons that this country is in the worst shape because of Biden and people like u.dems have only made it harder for everyone not better. If u can’t come up w anything but lies keep your mouth shut nobody wants to hear from a liberal like u
First off you will not win anyone over by insulting them. Your insinuations that we don’t read things is inappropriate. The lies, falsehoods, half truths and fearmongering as presented by media only shows that you Don’t look at any independent sources for information. I have voted for democrats in the past but never will give any Support to them again.
Explain What is wrong with America Being Great?
The Laken Riley Act has passed through the senate and been signed into law. It had Bipartisan support. Because it was a good law.
#1 you state violent crime is down as a fact but offer no proof.
Falsehood #1 Violent crime is up 24% from 2023-2024 In Dona Ana County and Las Cruces.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=8DLjK-_kd2w
#2 Crime rates care higher amongst the Illegal Immigrant community. They are here Illegally and do not report crimes because they could be deported.
Any group of people that believes there should be Censorship of it’s citizens free speech, and disarmed is in favor of a police state.