National Guard to be deployed to Española

Better idea, call in ICE and CFB.

I'm not surprised, as I'm reminded of being a geology graduate student in summer of 1982 and signing up for a field project in the Jemez Mountains of Central New Mexico to study some hard-rock geology. I had specialized in petroleum geology and needed some hard-rock credits to graduate. There were five of us signed up for the project, and our professor warned us to avoid being in Espanola after sundown. Having spent time in the hills around Los Alamos the previous summer, I was taken aback by the warning, as I had found Central New Mexicans to be friendly and somewhat amused by the rock hammer toting students roaming their hills every summer. We met some guys from the Colorado School of Mines doing similar field work. They had also been warned by their professors and older, MS and PhD students, who chimed in with stories, some undoubtedly apocryphal but some first hand. Being that we would be traveling from Central Texas by POV, it was SOP to take a shootin' iron on the trip but was also advised that the local constabulary was dirty. We took on supplies in Espanola and headed back south to camp near the nice little town of Jemez Springs. Even in '82, the area and main north - south highway in Central New Mexico, Route 4, was a pipeline for drug runners heading from the border towns, north to the greater Denver area. We finished the project, without incident, in 4 weeks and decided to go around 100 miles west and avoid further incursions to Espanola, spending another week poking around the ancient Anasazi ruins at Chaco Canyon, more of an impromptu archeology excursion, along the Rio Puerco (Pig River), a tributary of the Rio Grande. Being a former Navy Fleet Marine Corpsman, I was not happy that there were cities within the American West that were essentially no-go places for normal Americans but did not wish to sit in a jail cell and burden my family because I needed to prove something.

Another democrat mayor crying for help. Per Wikipedia, 88% Hispanic and known as " the low rider Capitol of the world."

"a crime, drug and housing crisis". I wonder what demographic is involved in that? Well, actually not.

Espanola and neighboring Chimayo are supposedly the capitals of low-riders. I hope the low-riders don't get trouble from the baddies there.

Every single city with a Democrat mayor and over 250,000 population should be under the national guard - by emergency Executive Order.

I have some close friends who live in the Albuquerque area. They report that Espanola has been on the skids for some time. East central towns like Vaughn are in terrible shape economically - many empty store fronts and high unemployment. Drug trafficking and very high crime rates in these areas. The Albuquerque gangs are well-entrenched. The entire state has been struggling. And the lefty state Capitol, Santa Fe, turns a blind eye just like they always have.

By the way, #2, as a New Mexico Tech alumnus from the mid-1970s, I can attest that your story presents a reasonable scenario of what has happened to the State of New Mexico. Current events are also affecting academia in the state. NMT is struggling to attract undergraduate students these days. While crime in Socorro where the NMT campus is located hasn't worsened to the extent that it has in Espanola, the locals are very worried that it will. Biden the cheater and his sidekick, Kamalie, did no favors for the state with their open border schtick.

Why is their law enforcement short staffed.? Is it money?T hey don't pay enough, Is it because they aren't hiring? They haven't got people who want the job? Their force has bad morale? There is a reason for any force being short staffed. Solve that reason

One would think that the choice of the name Espanola might have been a clue. The NG will fix things.

That must be Española South. We have several Española Norths here in the US.

SO el presidente, how many Cartel Criminals are in your "National Guard"?

This is what happens when lazy, corrupt government officials allow corporate greed to offshore entire American industries.