New Mexico Deploying Foreign Mercenaries to Enforce 2nd Amendment Infringements

“N.M. passes law to allow eligible non-citizens to serve in law enforcement,” Police 1 reports. “On April 7, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed Senate Bill 364, which allows people with work authorization from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to serve as LEOs.” Sponsors of the bill included Democrats  Sen. Cindy Nava and House Speaker Javier Martínez, both endorsed as Moms Demand Action “Gun Sense Candidates,” and Democrat senators Michael Padilla and Joseph Cervantes. They were joined by NRA-endorsed Republican Sen. Craig Brandt.

Reasons given for needing the bill were “fewer recruits entering the profession and more officers retiring or leaving for other opportunities.” Stated another way, that could be characterized as doing the enforcing Americans won’t do. “SB 364 opens the door for individuals who might otherwise have never considered a career in law enforcement — people who are already working, living and contributing to our communities but were previously excluded from this essential work,” Nava practically gushed.

There are reasons for that, reasons that we sadly no longer expect Democrats to care about, but that “law and order” Republicans like Brandt ought to prioritize. That’s because “the supreme Law of the Land,” the Constitution these politicians swore an oath to support, also includes in Article VI a requirement that “all executive … Officers… of the several States,” including police officers, to “be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution.”

How is that loyalty supposed to work with foreign nationals holding competing allegiances?  Consider how few citizen cops are publicly urging their brother officers to honor their oaths when it comes to refusing to follow unlawful orders that infringe on the Second Amendment. This new bill will authorize their foreign supplements/replacements to disarm American citizens on U.S. soil, and New Mexico under Democrat rule will give them plenty of opportunities.

In response to a criminals being violent, Democrat Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham imposed a temporary “emergency order” that banned all citizens from carrying firearms in public places throughout Bernalillo County, scaled back to Albuquerque parks and playgrounds after lawsuits from “gun rights groups.” While she said she won’t renew it, it’s pretty clear what she’d like to do if she thought she could. Besides, there are other ways the state infringes.

Per Giffords Law Center, New Mexico imposes, among other edicts,  “universal background checks,” so-called “extreme risk protection orders” petitioned by the police to disarm people who have been accused (but not charged or convicted) of posing a risk to the safety of themselves or others, “a seven-calendar-day waiting period for the sale or purchase of a firearm,” a child access prevention/”safe storage” law, and carry permits with a prior restraint training requirement.

And as expected, the Democrat-dominated legislature is trying for more.

They introduced several gun-related bills in 2025 that didn’t make it to the floor, but you can bet they’ll be back in the next legislative session. Among these were red flag law-related gun seizure bill, tightening firearm dealer regulations, and firearms and ammunition bans, notably SB 279, the oxymoronically named GOSAFE Act, targeting “gas-operated semiautomatic firearms and large-capacity [holding over 10 rounds!] ammunition feeding devices” described by NRA as “a near all-encompassing ban on commonly owned firearms.”

Considering the Democrat/Republican split in the New Mexico legislature (44D-26R in the House, 26D-16R in the Senate), things don’t look hopeful for next year. And, consistent with the sudden political demand for issuing badges and guns to non-citizens, in April, Lujan Grisham deployed the National Guard in response to another Albuquerque crime “emergency.”

As with all things “progressive,” giving foreign nationals police powers is nothing new. In 2023, Firearms News reported on a Nevada bill to authorize hiring green card holders and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, noting Colorado, Vermont, West Virginia, Louisiana, and Maine do not have police citizenship requirements. And per Police Magazine, “the Chicago Police Department will allow any immigrant with a work authorization from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to become an officer. This is also true for many local agencies throughout the state of Hawaii. The Cincinnati Police Department requires only that officers have a pending citizenship application on file with the federal government. Other agencies in the country require potential recruits be legal permanent residents or green-card holders.”

The thought of foreign nationals abridging American’s rights evokes nothing so much as the deployment of Hessian mercenaries to fight patriots in the War for Independence. That these non-citizens will have the power to enforce citizen disarmament edicts makes fair the question, “With police officers like these, who needs blue helmeted UN troops?”

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