Thread: New Mexico’s Martinez targets driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants

By Reid Wilson
December 18 at 11:46 am
The Washington Post


New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez (R) will push to roll back a state law that allows undocumented immigrants to get driver’s licenses (Photo by Jeffrey MacMillan)

In what has become something of an annual ritual, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez (R) said Tuesday she will renew a push to force the state legislature to repeal a 10-year-old law that allows undocumented immigrants to get driver’s licenses.

In an e-mail to supporters Tuesday, Martinez asked for financial support to help convince Democrats, who control both chambers of the state legislature, to roll back the law, initially signed by her predecessor, Democrat Bill Richardson.

“Over the last few years, we have passed the repeal out of the state House, but it has been killed by liberal Democrats in the Senate,” Martinez said in a fundraising e-mail first reported by the Albuquerque Journal. “Now, our opponents want us to give up. They are organized and well financed so I am asking you to join me by contributing whatever you can to help make sure we go into the session prepared to fight.”

Martinez has tried to pass the legislation before. It passed the state House with bipartisan support last year, though it stalled in committee earlier this year. In 2012, the measure died in the state Senate, where President Tim Jennings (D) blocked it. Jennings lost his Senate seat that year, thanks in part to attacks from a political action committee run by Martinez allies.

Earlier this year, Martinez offered compromise legislation, crafted with the Senate Republican leader and the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, that would have provided permits — not licenses — to so-called DREAMers, undocumented immigrants who have served in the military or graduated from college. A top Martinez aide told The Washington Post that that compromise legislation is likely to be the version introduced when the legislature returns to Santa Fe on Jan. 21.

Polling shows the driver’s license issue is one Martinez can use to her political advantage. Just before the 2012 election, 71 percent of likely voters — including 59 percent of Democrats and 62 percent of Hispanic voters — said they opposed allowing illegal immigrants to obtain licenses, according to a poll conducted for the Journal by Research & Polling Inc., a New Mexico-based survey firm.

Still, Democrats maintain a 25-17 vote edge in the state Senate, making it unlikely that the measure would win easy passage. Democrats told the Journal they had pitched the Martinez administration on proposed compromises, including a one-year driving permit, but that those efforts at compromise had hit a brick wall.

Martinez will face the winner of a Democratic primary that includes Attorney General Gary King (D) and state Sens. Linda Lopez (D) and Howie Morales (D). Her approval ratings remain strong, though, and Democrats privately concede she looks like a strong candidate for reelection.

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Susana must not have driven around much in ABQ, Gallup, Clovis, Taos, Santa Fe or any other town in 'New' Mexico.

She's a little late ..

Protest ABQ Campaign Spurs Meeting With New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez Over Abortion




Published on: August 25, 2014






Albuquerque, NM- On Saturday, August 16th after attending a gala hosted by the Baby Brianna Foundation, leaders of Protest ABQ, which included Bud and Tara Shaver, sat down with Gov. Susana Martinez during a 30 minute meeting and spoke about how she as Governor can take steps to protect the lives of women and pre-born children from the horror of abortion in New Mexico.
This meeting was a direct result of Protest ABQ’s focus on Gov. Martinez over the past several months due to her reluctance to take meaningful action to prevent abortion even though she campaigns as a pro-life supporter.
“New Mexico currently has no restrictions whatsoever on abortion. Because of that, Albuquerque is known nationally as the ‘Late-Term Abortion Capital’ of the nation where elective abortions are performed through all nine months of pregnancy. Therefore, it is imperative that the Governor take pro-active steps to reign in the out-of-control and unregulated abortion industry that is taking the lives of healthy babies just days or weeks before birth and sending women to hospitals for emergency care when things go wrong,” stated Bud Shaver Executive Director of Protest ABQ.
“During our meeting with Governor Martinez we were able to focus on these truths and discussed ways that this can change in New Mexico with her leadership.”

Since Saturday’s meeting with the Governor, correspondence between Protest ABQ leaders and members of Martinez’ staff has been initiated at her request.
This is a breakthrough and a victory.
It is the exact result expected from the Protest ABQ campaign. Protest ABQ is committed to exposing and protesting those who support, profit from and condone abortion. Protests and public pressure do work, and the Martinez meeting is proof of that.
Protest ABQ encourages pro-lifers across the nation to employ these methods. Protest ABQ is leading the charge and calling on pro-life groups to join us for a National Call to Action: “National Protest’s culminating with a National Strike on January 22, 2015.”
Protest ABQ has halted its protests of Gov. Martinez to give her and her administration an opportunity to take action on the abortion issue on behalf of the most vulnerable in our state as her re-election approaches.
Protest ABQ is currently focusing on the University of New Mexico (UNM) due to its radical abortion agenda. For more information about why UNM is the heart of the legalized child-killing cartel in New Mexico, please read the following report by Tara Shaver: “Exposé: Tax Funded Abortion Training and the Betrayal of True Medicine at UNM.”
[Operation Rescue partners with Project Defending Life and Protest ABQ to expose abuses and bring an end to abortion in Albuquerque, NM, the Late-Term Abortion Capital of the World. -- OR Staff]

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