Petition seeks to impeach Lujan Grisham over decision to pull back border troops

[TexasTowelie]

A spokeswoman for New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is calling an impeachment petition against the governor’s decision to withdraw border troops a sham effort by President Trump supporters mostly outside the state.

Lujan Grisham spokeswoman Nora Sackett said Tuesday that the governor has encountered strong public support within New Mexico for her decision last week to withdraw most of the state’s National Guard troops from the border with Mexico.

The petition seeking Lujan Grisham’s impeachment garnered more than 35,000 signatures by Tuesday afternoon as federal border authorities announced another group of more than 300 migrants had been apprehended at Sunland Park.

Sackett says the “silly” petition is a diversion from Trump’s efforts to build an unpopular border wall. Sacket said the federal government should be focused on filling vacant Border Patrol jobs.

Read more: https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/new-mexico/2019/02/12/petition-impeachment-new-mexico-governor-michelle-lujan-grisham/2854589002/

[chillfactor]

1. so are these idiots also going to circulate a petition

against the California governor? He is also pulling NG troops off the California border. And what happens if other governors also put up resistance to the orange turd? These idiots going to circulate petitions against all of them? These idiots are as dense as the orange turd is.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. What?

I live in New Mexico and I hadn't yet seen this. I really doubt this will go anywhere. Lujan Grisham is a decent Governor (not my first choice, but better than the alternative) and she's going to be a vast improvement over our former Governor, La Tejana, otherwise known as Susana Martinez.

Here in New Mexico we understand that there's no border crisis. We also understand that a lot of our newcomers may not have certain kinds of documentation, and for the most part we don't give a flying fuck.

I have occasion to talk to recent immigrants, and invariably they are working at least two jobs. They are doing everything possible to make a good life for themselves, and a better life for their children. I am in awe of them.

What's both sad and scary is that so many people in this country have no clue what their own grandparents or great grandparents or however far back it goes for them, they have no clue what their ancestors went through. They have zero idea what the immigrant experience is all about. All four of my grandparents came here from Ireland at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries. They were fortunate in that they came here already speaking the language, but almost everyone else had to learn English. Which they did. Which recent and current immigrants also do.

Arrggghhh. Don't get me started. The only difference between me and the most recent arrival is when they or my grandparents arrived.

[onetexan]

3. Another RW ploy. Lujan is a damn good governor

With lots of experience. She is popular in NM.