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Issue: Federal funding for healthcare, food assistance, public lands, and other services are crashing

Policy: Trumps administration's new domestic policy legislation

Policy Maker: Donald Trump and the republican party

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COUNTY LEVEL PROBLEMS IN BERNALILLO, NEW MEXICO

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Issue: Holding illegal drugs and committing serious crimes from an underage individual.

Policy: Underage criminals having a reduced sentence.

Policy Maker: Judge William Parnall

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Guns, fentanyl pills, and thousands of dollars in cash. That's what investigators found on a local teen multiple times in the past year. Now, there are serious questions as to whether his punishment fits his crimes.

"If this was before federal court and he was an adult, the sentencing structure would put him away for the majority of his life," Prosecutor Kristin Guin said.

Judge William Parnall sentenced the 17-year-old in question to two years probation Wednesday. Frustrating for Guin.

"Obviously he's on probation, he's going to have oversight, he is going to have a juvenile probation officer assigned to him, but that is largely the extent of where it goes," said Guin.

Guin said that sentence is for three cases. The first came in July 2024 when Albuquerque police officers found guns, fentanyl, and $6,000 cash in the teen's car.

Two months later, he sped away from a traffic stop.

"He was running lights, he was running signs, he was passing people on the shoulder, eventually ditching the vehicle to take off on foot," Guin said.

In that car, police found more of the same. Nearly 6,000 fentanyl pills and ghost gun parts.

Three weeks later, Bernalillo County Sheriff's Deputies finally caught up with him. But the teen didn't go willingly. He sped away from police and ended up crashing into a deputy's vehicle. He had guns and drugs in the car.

The teen spent several weeks in a juvenile detention center after his arrest and was released to go to a drug treatment facility.

"Since the respondent complied with Sequoia treatment afterwards, stayed out of trouble to this point, that it showed his willingness to engage and that he had a family willing to support him that it would balance out the harm done," Guin said.

Guin fought for a sentencing of two years in juvenile custody for the teen, the maximum sentence under our state's Childrens Code.

Guin said he pleaded no contest to all his charges, including possession with intent to distribute.

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Teen accused of serious gun and drug crimes receives probation

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Guns, fentanyl pills, and thousands of dollars in cash. That's what investigators found on a local teen multiple times in the past year.

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Issue: Too much money is being provided to Tribes in New Mexico that not enough money is being given to school lunches

Policy: Cut governmental providing to Tribes so they must rely on local and small companies and other tribes that provide food.

Policy Maker: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

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NM Pueblo leader says recent USDA tribal food program cuts means more reliance on ‘commodities’ • Source New Mexico

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For many of our grandmas and grandpas and our aunties and uncles, it’s their only source of food for a month,” said All-Pueblo Council chairman James Mountain.

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MUNICIPAL LEVEL PROBLEMS IN ESPANOLA, NEW MEXICO

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Issue: Too much crime and access to drugs and overdosing in the Española area of New Mexico

Policy: Provide more money to emergency funding for the Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management

Policy Maker: Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham

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Office of the Governor - Michelle Lujan Grisham

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SANTA FE - Today, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham declared a state of emergency in Rio Arriba County, the city of Española, and area Pueblos at the request of those governments in response to a significant surge in violent crime, drug trafficking, and public safety threats that have overwhelmed local resources.

The emergency declaration comes as police calls in Española and surrounding areas have more than doubled in the past two years. Police dispatches to businesses in the area have quadrupled in the same period. Rio Arriba County currently has the highest overdose death rate in the state, with residents struggling with addiction to fentanyl and other illicit substances.

"When our local leaders called for help to protect their communities, we responded immediately with decisive action," said Gov. Lujan Grisham. "We are making every resource available to support our local partners on the ground and restore public safety and stability to these areas that have been hardest hit by this crisis."

Executive Order 2025-358 authorizes up to $750,000 in emergency funding for the Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management to coordinate response efforts and provide resources to affected communities.

The surge in criminal activity has contributed to increased homelessness, family instability and fatal drug overdoses, placing extraordinary strain on local governments and police departments that have requested immediate state assistance.

The emergency declaration will remain in effect until all authorized funds are expended or emergency assistance is no longer necessary.

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Governor declares emergency in Española area due to crime - Office of the Governor - Michelle Lujan Grisham

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SANTA FE - Today, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham declared a state of emergency in Rio Arriba County, the city of Española, and area Pueblos at the request of those governments in response to a significant surge in violent crime, drug trafficking, and public safety threats that have overwhelmed local resources.

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Issue: The wide range on middle school students make it difficult to get all of the freshman on the same track at the same time

Policy: Building a middle school onto the East Mountain High School campus

Policy Maker: Albuquerque Public Schools (APS)

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East Mountain High School to launch middle school program in 2026 - nm.news

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By Kevin Hendricks East Mountain High School, a charter school in Sandia Park recognized as a National Blue Ribbon School, has announced plans to expand its program to include middle […]

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there has been massive federal cuts in budgeting for new mexico, which was caused by president donald trump's bill titled, "one big beautiful bill act" that will help benefit the more rich while making a bigger problem for those with less money. the policy was passed in the first place because too much money is being transferred to places in new mexico that do not require it.