I thought Santa Fe was one of those liberal cities that believed in unlimited mulligans for this kind of thing. Now their policecritters are getting fed up with it?Santa Fe's San Francisco-type liberal mayor has declared Santa Fe a "sanctuary city" where illegals will not be stopped, questioned, detained, etc. Not only the cops are fed up, but the Occupy Santa Fe types who have been camped out in the railyard park are giving up due to drunks, druggies, homeless, illegals etc. that are assaulting and robbing them every night. Hey, I thought in the 99% group think, everything that is mine is also yours? What's wrong guys?
Time to unoccupy? Leaders ready to pack up Railyard camp, citing drunks and conflicts
NM list PING! Click on the flag to go to the Free Republic New Mexico message page.
(The NM list is available on my FR homepage for anyone to use. Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)
>Santa Fe’s San Francisco-type liberal mayor has declared Santa Fe a “sanctuary city” where illegals will not be stopped, questioned, detained, etc.
There’s a VERY simple fix... but it would cause quite a stir.
Governor declares a state of invasion, as authorized by NM Constitution Art V, Sec 4 — “The supreme executive power of the state shall be vested in the governor, who shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed. He shall be commander in chief of the military forces of the state, except when they are called into the service of the United States. He shall have power to call out the militia to preserve the public peace, execute the laws, suppress insurrection and repel invasion.”
Then the Governor would order the National Guard to besiege and clear the city; all illegal immigrants would be passed to the appropriate processing (deportation, trial, whatever).
The Governor would also issue orders to arrest, for charges of treason (as the “sanctuary city” policy accords the invaders both aid and comfort), the city’s Mayor, DA, and Chief of Police per NM Constitution Art II, Sec 16 — “Treason against the state shall consist only in levying war against it, adhering to its enemies, or giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.”
Furthermore, the Governor could then demand Federal aid via US Constitution Art 4, Sec 4. Federal refusal would, obviously, be grounds for treason charges under the US Constitution.
(And it’d be pretty damn satisfying to see them shitting a brick when they have to choose between outright treason and contrary to the open-border-policy they seem entranced with.)