The Brass Monkey

New Mexico´s new governor Susana Martinez (R) has ordered the State Police to check the immigration status of anyone arrested. This reverses former governor Bill Richardson (D) who signed an executive order banning the state police from asking a suspect about their immigration status. Some Democratic law makers do not like this at all. (no [...]

According to Crews, here are New Mexico´s recent past hall of fame (2005-2009) most corrupt politicians on a national level. Steve Pearce (R-NM) Most Corrupt Reports 2007/2008 – Rep. Pearce failed to disclose a $12 million sale of his business and appeared to have exchanged legislative assistance for campaign contributions. In 2008, Rep. Pearce stepped [...]

Harry Teague supports a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens. You can call it anything you want Harry Teague. It is amnesty. This amnesty would make 10 million immediately eligible for Social Security and Medicare, even if they never paid into these programs. The congressional budget office says Teague´s plan could divert around five and [...]

Net Neutrality Equals Free Speech! Major corporations are about to launch an all-out attack on net neutrality. The lobbyists are circling Congress now. Giving Verizon, Time Warner or Google the right to slow the Internet traffic they choose, maybe deliver your e-mail tomorrow instead of today, is not a good idea. I have 150 channels [...]

We should hold criminally liable the senators, the representatives, the EPA administrator and the Department of Interior administrator under George W. Bush who allowed big oil to drill in the Gulf of Mexico without an adequate safety plan… The Obama administration should make public the minutes from the secret meetings that Dick Cheney held with [...]

The OP-ED column “Arizona Law is Un-American” by Sen. Eric Griego lacks facts and logic. This man was either absent or slept through history in school. Three times in modern history we have deported illegal immigrants: President Herbert Hoover, during the Great Depression,ordered the deportation of all illegal aliens in order to make jobs available [...]

The perps use New Mexico phone books to pick names. The names selected for the scam then have a change of address form filled out and sent to the post office. Using this information they are also generating fraudulent documents to obtain drivers licenses which would be forwarded by the post office to out of [...]

86 percent of homicide warrants issued in Albuquerque, New Mexico are issued for illegal aliens. 83 percent of homicide warrants in Phoenix are issued for illegal aliens. 95 percent of homicide warrants in Los Angeles are issued for illegal aliens. Granted that Los Angeles has brought this on themselves by being a sanctuary city and [...]

For the second time in the last 5 years New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson has ordered National Guard troops to the states border with Mexico. The move comes as rising border violence involving illegal alien smugglers has spread across all states that border Mexico. Press Release: March 31, 2010 SANTA FE: Governor Bill Richardson, after [...]

A prison clerk in New Mexico a state that has long offered illegal immigrants sanctuary has been reprimanded—and may be fired—for notifying federal authorities about arrested illegal aliens brought to the facility. Valencia County Detention Center records clerk Clara Aguilar says her job is on the line for assisting state police officers who requested she [...]

Is President Obama lying when he asserts that illegal immigrants will not be covered by HR 3200? Well no, not in the strictest sense of the word. it does state in black and white on p.143, Sec, 246 of HR 3200 that nothing in this subtitle shall allow Federal payments for affordability credits on behalf [...]

And here we go again. It seems that the gang of crooks involved in the Albuquerque metro court house scandal who were just sentenced recently is just out of the news (see The Brass Monkey Blog post Corruption That Rivaled Mexico’s) and indictments come down for a former New Mexico Secretary of State, a democratic [...]

A note from The Brass Monkey Blog . Net… The following was in the letters to the editor section of the Albuquerque Journal on June 30. The ‘Roundhouse’ referred to in the post is the building where the state legislature meets. Manny Aragon was president of the state senate and in the legislature for a [...]

Earlier this month the new Metro Courthouse building in Albuquerque scandal came to an end with the final crook sentenced. Some of the players held big time political offices in New Mexico and included Manny Aragon, former president of the New Mexico State Senate and former Albuquerque mayor Ken Schultz. Schultz was the bagman for [...]

Albuquerque residents should be mad as hell about this violent act. Last Weekend armed robbers went into a Denny’s restaurant, held them up and shot and killed the cook. There were about 40 people in the restaurant at the time (around 9:30 AM) including young children. At least one of the gunmen was a member [...]

Javier Lozano (left) the local magistrate says he tells folks not to worry. Columbus, a small town of about 1,800 people sits on a patch of high desert in southern New Mexico, was a picture of tranquillity. Now less then 3 miles away in Palomas Mexico war has broken out between narcotics gangs against each [...]