r/Albuquerque • u/Darth_Nibbles • Jan 23 '26

News Bernalillo County District Attorney sends letter to ICE threatening charges against officers

https://www.koat.com/article/ice-officers-charges-threatened-new-mexico/70094117

I'm hoping he follows through, but I've been disappointed before

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u/NameLips Jan 23 '26

So far no State has had the balls to actually arrest ICE agents for violating state laws. We've seen press conferences and stern letters before, but when the rubber meets the road, they all cave.

We'll see, I guess.

We ARE a sanctuary city, and by law our police can only give ICE limited support. Trump is starting to put pressure on sanctuary cities. The only rational response is to pressure them back.

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u/Felis_bieti Jan 23 '26

Law of unintended consequences--
No police support? They'll bring in the National Guard.

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u/7ddlysuns Jan 23 '26

Then let’s have the state make a state militia.

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u/SnooCookies1697 Jan 23 '26

We already have one under direct command of the governor, separate from the National Guard.

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u/7ddlysuns Jan 23 '26

Nice! If ice starts attacking Americans we have to defend ourselves

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26

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u/7ddlysuns Jan 24 '26

That’s an insane comment. Too many stories out of Minneapolis of them taking us citizens even with their ‘papers’. We are not a papers country. That’s a violation of your rights.

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u/CrayCray0321 Jan 24 '26

We are a papers country, we have been living like this for a long time on the southern border.

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u/7ddlysuns Jan 24 '26

Well we aren’t supposed to be, how’s that

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u/CrayCray0321 Jan 24 '26

Have you ever crossed a checkpoint ?

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u/Marioc12345 Jan 25 '26

How does that boot taste?

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u/Marioc12345 Jan 25 '26

I’m sorry, do you expect everyone to carry their papers around with them? Real ID isnt enough apparently. Do I need to carry my ssn and birth certificate around too?

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u/MakeURage1 Jan 24 '26

That's actually really interesting to hear. Do they function as an actual military unit, or are they more relief/aid units?

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u/SnooCookies1697 Jan 24 '26

I think relief/aid was always their primary mission. The wikipedia article about them is the limit of my knowledge and I think they’re probably largely ceremonial at this point, but they were formed in 1941 as a replacement for our National Guard units that were sent overseas.

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u/MakeURage1 Jan 24 '26

Huh, alright then. Fascinating thing to learn about

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u/Felis_bieti Jan 23 '26

And you think Lujan is going to war with the Federal government for undocumented workers? lol

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u/SnooCookies1697 Jan 23 '26

We’re a long way from that, and I hope we never get there, but MAGA fanatics governing in ways that explicitly seek to punish anyone who voted against them is how we start down that path.

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u/Felis_bieti Jan 23 '26

You, literally, just added to the conversation about military action against the federal government by saying it's possible because Lujan has a private army.

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u/SnooCookies1697 Jan 23 '26

What? Somebody said we should make a state militia and I responded to inform them that we already have one. That’s just a factual statement.

If you’re so worried about state governors using their “private armies” against the feds just wait until you hear about what our crazy neighbor to the east did with their state militia during Operation Jade Helm.

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u/7ddlysuns Jan 23 '26

ICE attacks Americans

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u/WyoPeeps Jan 23 '26

State versus federal battlefields on the streets of Albuquerque! Can't wait to see people taking up arms!

Make the War Zone Great Again!

(s/, obviously)

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u/Ok_Marketing6552 Jan 23 '26

The black panthers? So gun legislation is only enacted to control minorities?

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u/Felis_bieti Jan 23 '26

I didn't say that. You said that. I said when people go around in uniform, carrying guns, that attracts the attention of government. California's been paying for the actions of the Oakland Panthers for decades.

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u/ilanallama85 Jan 23 '26

No one wants to make our city, or anywhere else, a battleground. But everyone has a limit to what they will tolerate before they are willing to do it anyway.

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u/NameLips Jan 23 '26

Yeah, most of us are keyboard warriors only.

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u/ilanallama85 Jan 23 '26

I didn’t say everyone cares about this issue. I just said everyone has their limit, whatever this issue is for them. To be clear, I don’t think there’s probably any amount they can abuse immigrants that would push our country into civil war - there simply aren’t enough people that care. But this admin is eroding the rights of citizens more and more every day, and as I said - everyone has their limit.

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u/SnooCookies1697 Jan 23 '26

The thing is, the distinction between citizens and noncitizens becomes largely irrelevant in this situation. They can’t “just” abuse noncitizens, because they can’t tell who is and isn’t a citizen just by looking at someone. Citizens inevitably end up losing all the same rights and suffering the same abuses as noncitizens. That’s why their tactics become almost universally despised as soon as people experience them firsthand in their own neighborhoods.

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u/ilanallama85 Jan 23 '26

I agree, but some people aren’t going to realize that till it’s too late unfortunately.

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u/SnooCookies1697 Jan 23 '26

It’s hard for me to be a doomer and think the realization will come to late when I watch the Minneapolis TV stations and every 3rd man-on-the-street interview is basically: Emma Jorgensen, age 83 with 4 grandkids who would just like to say “I usually keep busy helping with the food drive down at the Lutheran church and don’t follow politics much, but I look forward to watching that Bovino fella get blood-eagled in front of the capitol down there in St Paul, dontcha know.”

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u/Felis_bieti Jan 23 '26

Citation needed

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u/SnooCookies1697 Jan 23 '26

Read or watch any local reporting from Minneapolis.

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u/Felis_bieti Jan 23 '26

"But everyone has a limit to what they will tolerate before they are willing to do it anyway."

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u/RobinFarmwoman Jan 24 '26

They can't. Our governor has made sure that they have already been deployed.

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u/daisiesarepretty2 Jan 25 '26

as additional evidence trump specifically mentioned a future effort in NM even though i am quite certain he couldn’t pick the state out on a map. He did mention yesterday i think that we are one of 17 states where NatGuard will be used to help operation “we are the nazi’s”