'No authority': New Mexico governor tells militia to stop arresting migrants at border

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday lashed out at members of a militia group who are stopping migrants at the border, declaring "regular citizens have no authority to arrest or detain anyone."

The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico has demanded that Lujan Grisham and New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas investigate the militia organization, United Constitutional Patriots. Some of the group's members are armed.

"That migrant families might be menaced or threatened in any way, shape or form when they arrive at our border — often times after an unimaginably arduous journey — is completely unacceptable," Grisham said in an email to NBC News.

"It should go without saying that regular citizens have no authority to arrest or detain anyone," she said. "My office and our state police are coordinating with the Attorney General's Office and local police to determine what has gone on and what can be done."

Balderas warned in a statement that "these individuals should not attempt to exercise authority reserved for law enforcement," he said.

The ACLU of New Mexico raised the alarm about the arrests in a letter sent Thursday to Grisham and Balderas.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/no-authority-new-mexico-governor-tells-militia-to-stop-arresting-migrants-at-border/ar-BBW70of?li=BBnb7Kz

[dewsgirl]

1. I'm very concerned it's going to get even worse down there.

[Initech]

5. If these wannabe rambos are hell bent on using their precious kill toys...

Rather than attempting to play police, why don't they do us a favor and join the army? They can take their aggressions out there.

[SilasSouleII]

7. No

We don't need these types in the US Army. They'll only bring their problems and issues into an honorable profession.

[dewsgirl]

9. Yikes no way. My son is in the Air Force, the thought terrifies

me. I am beyond proud of him. I honestly didn't want him to enlist after Trump became president. Even though he is excelling and loves it, I worry much more than I would have under a stable president.

[Initech]

23. True.

[Brother Buzz]

11. If it's any consolation, the weather might slow it down a bit

These yahoos dressed up in their dime store camouflage uniforms are going to start wilting real soon.

[bdamomma]

17. These militia's

are tRumps SS force, they would kill for their mad king.

[bluestarone]

24. THIS for sure i really believe!!

And it's only the BEGINNING of what will happen in 2020!! SCARY SHIT HERE

[babylonsister]

2. How about slapping a few of those militia in jail?

I'm pretty sure vigilantism is illegal.

[GulfCoast66]

4. This is a real crisis on the boarder...

She should send the state police or even national guard to prevent an armed, organized effort to illegal restrain people.

And when they try to pull a Bundy ranch deal and aim their firearms at law enforcement, do what normally happens. Shoot the motherfuckers.

[Maru Kitteh]

10. Wish I could recommend your post

[keithbvadu2]

15. Amazing to see all those LEOs standing proudly with Bundy when it was their badges being sighted on.

Amazing to see all those LEOs standing proudly with Bundy when it was their badges being sighted on.

[pangaia]

3. people need to stop calling these asshole militia.

They are.. ASSHOLES !

OK, how about asshole vigilantes !!

[Gore1FL]

14. asshole terror cells? nt

[SWBTATTReg]

6. Hurt them in their pockets. These RAMBO types as the governor stated, have no authority to...

detain these persons, and if anything, should be sued for damages by unlawfully detaining these individuals (instead of detaining these people, they should call the authorities if they are truly concerned about illegal activity, but not themselves engage in illegal activity too (unlawfully detaining someone against their will, failure to report a crime to authorities, etc.)).

Someone is going to inadvertently get hurt by these RAMBO nuts.

[quakerboy]

21. I dont think "inadvertantly" is the right word.

But yes. I'd love to see a wave of civil suits. Lets see them patrol the border once their guns, vehicles and fancy cammo garb belong to the assorted immigrants and citizens that they have harassed.

[Karadeniz]

8. Thanks, guvner. These people are all on a selfrighteous high, therefore dangerous.

[inwiththenew]

12. Just wait until the first shot gets fired

Whether it be from militia member of drug traffickers/coyotes. This is the type of thing that will spin completely out of control.

[BadgerMom]

13. Saw this this morning. So glad Grisham

and Balderas are paying attention.

[keithbvadu2]

16. Murder, robbery, child molesting - border patriots have some history

Murder, robbery, child molesting – border patriots have some history

“It really attracted a lot of people that had some pretty extreme issues,”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/minuteman-movement-border-crisis-simcox/

During the past four years, the Minuteman groups that defined conservative immigration policy during the mid-to-late-2000s have mostly self-destructed—sometimes spectacularly so. Founding Minuteman leaders are in prison, facing criminal charges, dead, or sidelined. “It really attracted a lot of people that had some pretty extreme issues,” says Juanita Molina, executive director of the Border Action Network, an advocacy group that provides aid to migrants in the desert. “We saw the movement implode on itself mostly because of that.” An analysis by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors right-wing extremist groups, found that the number of Minuteman groups in the Southwest had declined from 310 to 38 between 2010 and 2012.

[world wide wally]

19. Trump will be tweeting about what heroes they are any minute now.

[triron]

18. We have a good governor here in NM imo.

[Quackers]

20. Not wanting to play devils advocate, but

If the Governor is going to claim that regular citizens have no authority to arrest anyone, then she may want to have the law changed to reflect that.

New Mexico 31-4-14
The arrest of a person may be lawfully made also by any peace officer or a private person without a warrant upon reasonable information that the accused stands charged in the courts of a state with a crime punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year, but when so arrested the accused must be taken before a judge or magistrate with all practicable speed and complaint must be made against him under oath setting forth the ground for the arrest as in the preceding section [ 31-4-13 NMSA 1978]; and thereafter his answer shall be heard as if he had been arrested on a warrant.

[quakerboy]

22. Which part of that statute applies?

[Quackers]

27. The part

that says any private citizen can arrest is directly contradictory to her saying that no ordinary person can arrest or detain anyone.

[Cold War Spook]

29. It specifically says "state"

Unless the state has a law against illegal immigration, that law does not apply to what they are doing.

[Quackers]

32. See post 31. nt

[Codeine]

30. Are those people charged in the courts

of a state with a crime carrying a year+ sentence? Are they being turned over to a judge or magistrate?

Yeah, I didn’t think so. Your cited statue has zero applicability.

[Quackers]

31. I'm not stating it in regards to this specific situation. I'm saying it in a broader context.

Words matter. For the Governor to say that a regular person has no right to arrest someone is false under her States own law. That’s all I’m pointing out. I’m not happy or do I excuse what some psycho with a gun is doing to people crossing the border.

[duhneece]

33. And MAGA's here know that

I’m in south central New Mexico with Trump loving County Commissioners. What they are doing is sickening... from resolutions in support of ‘unborn human beings’ to declaring a state of emergency in our county.

[nolabear]

25. The states have to save us from his minions.

This is hardly a country any more.

[The Genealogist]

26. New Mexico

I have some great memories from my teen years of visiting the great state of New Mexico with my grandpa. I am glad they now have a governor like this.

My great hope is that, some day, historians will see this dark era for what it is. People like governor Lujan Grisham deserve to be remembered for standing up against tyranny.

[ck4829]

28. K&R