Democratic New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham told CBS News’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday that she ordered the withdrawal of National Guard troops from the southern border earlier this month after President Donald Trump sent them there, because there is no “real emergency.”
“I was on the border, and I’m looking and assessing whether or not there’s a real emergency or a crisis, and there isn’t,” Grisham said. “And the reality is these troops need to be available when there is a serious issue or an emergency to deal with.”
New Mexico is one of 16 states that filed a lawsuit against Trump's use of a national emergency to construct the border wall.
Grisham said “this political punting by Republicans and action by the president is really outrageous, because they're sowing fear, racism, hate and discrimination.”
She added that “it's all based on a president who has no intention of dealing with immigration policy or foreign policy in a productive way. He wants this wall and he's lying to the American people.”
Grisham added that she “did place some National Guard, law enforcement and most importantly, health responders to an area where they’re forcing them to come across a really desolate area in the southern part of the state.”
She emphasized the humanitarian situation created “when you don't let anybody seek asylum the way that they're supposed to or you grant visas on the front end, you're asking people to take an even more dangerous journey.”
Grisham said she is making sure that those who give themselves up to border patrol receive “the right kinds of services so that we don't have children who die right at those border areas in that crossing ever again in our state.”
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