They Don’t Get It: Another Dem Governor Vows To Resist Trump Deportations
Charlie Kirk Staff
11/23/2024

It appears that some Democrats have not learned any lessons since the red wave landslide election that cost them the White House, Senate and House of Representatives.
And you can add New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to that list as she spoke to MSNBC host and former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki and said that she would not assist with President-elect Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportations.
The host wondered what the governor could do to stand in the way and she gave the answer you would anticipate.
“Well, a couple of things. First of all, as you know, it is unlawful. You can’t use the military. You can’t do mass deportations. So, any federal administration should expect states—and I think you should expect some bipartisan support, not just from Democratic governors—to push back on violating the Constitution and the law. We’re not going to do that,” the governor said.
“We ought to be working on making sure that violent criminals and criminal activity are stopped everywhere. There isn’t a state that isn’t interested, whether you’re an American citizen or not. Effectively, Trump killed the bipartisan border deal—not the first time that he’s done that. We need more agents, we need more collective effort so that we’re bringing border security and holding people accountable where they are. Disrupting family structures and the economy with inhumane, cruel, unfair, and discriminatory policies that, again, are illegal on their face—we are not going to cooperate in any way in that effort,” she said.
“Governor, let’s get your response to something else the president-elect has proposed, which is eliminating the Department of Education. If that were to happen, what sort of impact would it have on your state and its students?” another host said, changing topics.
“Devastating. It would have devastating impacts. New Mexico has a much higher per capita average of kiddos who need special education interventions and supports. This notion that we aren’t going to fund that, that we’re going to go just to vouchers, that we aren’t going to make sure that there is really equality inside the school system—look, my sister in the ’60s was one of the very first special education students in the state of New Mexico, and I would argue probably anywhere in the country,” Grisham said.
“We have come a long way, but we need to do much better. A lot of that is related to not having enough maternal prenatal care, not having early interventions. We’re shifting that dynamic, as I talked about earlier. Not having billions of dollars and accountability metrics is devastating, and that’s just on the special education side,” she said.
“We’re a minority-majority state. Not making investments for Hispanic students and Native American students is tragic. We are finally moving the needle by reintroducing the science of reading, and we’re seeing dramatic increases in our literacy scores. They want to abandon all of it,” the governor said.
“It will have devastating financial and school access components, including transportation for New Mexico kids. Again, we will fight it. We will also put our own investments in if that occurs. We aren’t going to let kiddos fall further behind anywhere, and we will do that as a collective in the Southwest,” she said.