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 meeting with top law enforcement officials this morning, ordered the National Guard to patrol the border with Mexico and ensure the safety of New Mexico citizens.

"I want residents in Southern New Mexico to know we are taking this border violence very seriously by adding a National Guard presence along with state, local and federal law enforcement patrols along the border," Governor Richardson said.

Governor Richardson ordered New Mexico National Guard Major General Kenny Montoya to send guardsmen to the border area. The guardsmen will work with the New Mexico Department of Homeland
Security & Emergency Management, which is coordinating the law enforcement presence along the border.

Governor Richardson is also urging the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense to increase the federal law enforcement presence at the border and make that presence permanent.

On Tuesday, the Governor announced an increase in patrols by the New Mexico State Police and local sheriff´s departments at the border while police in Arizona investigate the shooting death of an Arizona rancher near the Mexico-Arizona border.

New Mexico Homeland Security and Emergency Management Secretary John Wheeler is coordinating the state´s law enforcement response to the shooting, including intelligence gathering and sharing with all law enforcement.

Governor Richardson in 2005 declared a State of Emergency along the New Mexico-Mexico border as a result of border-related violence. As a result of that emergency declaration, border communities were able to pay for additional law enforcement. The emergency also led to the creation of a field office for the state Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management in Las Cruces.

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We applaud the New Mexico governors action. Something that definitely was needed in the wake of Janet Napolitano and the Obama administration´s decision to cut funding for border security and the director of ICE, John Morton telling ICE agents too lay off of illegal aliens. In other words ignore laws that
are already on the books. Outrageous!

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