{"id":38304,"date":"2022-09-20T23:03:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T05:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-mexico-previously-bused-migrants-during-trump-years\/"},"modified":"2022-09-21T05:03:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T05:03:38","slug":"new-mexico-previously-bused-migrants-during-trump-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-mexico-previously-bused-migrants-during-trump-years\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico previously bused migrants during Trump years"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Migrants walk along concertina wire toward Border Patrol officers after illegally crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico into the U.S. at Eagle Pass, Texas, on Aug. 26. The number of Venezuelans, Cubans and Nicaraguans taken into custody at the U.S. border with Mexico soared in August as migrants from Mexico and traditional sending countries were stopped less frequently, authorities said Monday. (Eric Gay\/Associated Press file)<\/span>Eric Gay<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

SANTA FE \u2013 When migrants overwhelmed cities and shelters in New Mexico in 2019, Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham moved several dozen of them by bus from border communities to Denver, where Christian congregations volunteered to provide shelter and aid.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to 2022 and there is little, if any, talk of transporting migrants away from the border by Lujan Grisham \u2013 or Republican nominee for governor Mark Ronchetti.<\/p>\n

Lujan Grisham and Ronchetti declined this week to answer questions about whether they would approve any new efforts to transport migrants from the border region of New Mexico to other states and under what circumstances.<\/p>\n

Ronchetti, a former television meteorologist, has campaigned on promises to intervene against cross-border smuggling of migrants and illicit drugs by deploying soldiers and police to the state\u2019s border with Mexico. He also has denounced recently enacted laws that provide public benefits to migrants.<\/p>\n

Still, that approach steers clear of the controversial campaigns by Govs. Greg Abbott of Texas and Ron DeSantis of Florida<\/a> to ship thousands of immigrants from Texas to Democratic-led states and cities as they campaign for re-election.<\/p>\n

\u201cGovernors in Texas, Arizona, and Florida are doing everything they can to bring attention to the border crisis created by Joe Biden and made worse by politicians like Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham,\u201d said Ronchetti spokesman Ryan Sabel in an email.<\/p>\n

Ronchetti, who lost an open race for U.S. Senate in 2020, campaigned alongside DeSantis at an August rally in Carlsbad.<\/p>\n

Lujan Grisham spokeswoman Maddy Hayden described Republican efforts to transport migrants as a distraction.<\/p>\n

\u201cGov. DeSantis is using this opportunity to distract Americans from the fact that his far-right colleagues are trying to pass a national abortion ban, a position he supports,\u201d Hayden said in a statement Tuesday.<\/p>\n

New Mexico in 2019 struggled to accommodate a surge in the number of migrants arriving from Central America, as immigration authorities dropped asylum-seekers off at small border communities.<\/p>\n

The governor\u2019s office at one point paid to bus several dozen migrants to Colorado. The state also sued federal immigration officials, claiming they were shirking their duties. The case was dismissed by a federal judge.<\/p>\n

In August of this year alone, U.S. authorities stopped migrants about 29,000 times along the U.S. border near El Paso and New Mexico\u2019s 180-mile border with Mexico, amid a surge in immigration from Venezuela<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Migrants walk along concertina wire toward Border Patrol officers after illegally crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico into the U.S. at Eagle Pass, Texas, on Aug. 26. The number of Venezuelans, Cubans and Nicaraguans taken into custody at the U.S. border with Mexico soared in August as migrants from Mexico and traditional sending countries were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[815,138],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-38304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-associated-press-new-mexico","tag-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38304"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=38304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}