The Line: Border Issues In New Mexico

March 22, 2019 – Gene Grant and the Line opinion panelists examine New Mexico’s response to the influx of new immigrants. They look at the different definitions of a border “crisis” and debate the best way to handle migrants who are seeking asylum.

Line Panelists:
Dan Foley, former NM House minority whip
Tom Garrity, the Garrity Group PR
Inez Russell Gomez, editorial page editor, Santa Fe New Mexican
Cathryn McGill, founder/director, NM Black History Organizing Committee

For Further Reading:

Four-part series on influx of migrant families seeking asylum – by Angela Kocherga, Albuquerque Journal

New Mexico cities mobilize as shelters take in more migrants –  by Susan Montoya Bryan and Russell Contreras, Associated Press

Guatemalan faces up to life in prison for holding migrants in New Mexico – Associated Press

Ill immigrants bring dangerous complications that can spread far beyond NM – by Janice Arnold-Jones, for the Albuquerque Journal