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View Comments LAS CRUCES – U.S. Rep. Yvette Herrell, R-N.M., renewed her previous call for Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to deploy the New Mexico National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border.  Herrell, the lone Republican in New Mexico s congressional delegation, represents New Mexico s 2nd congressional district, which encompasses all of southern New Mexico.  The congresswoman first made the request in April in response to large increases of traffic at the U.S-Mexico border and pressure on the U.S. Border Patrol, which Herrell described in her original letter as overworked, undermanned and under-supplied.   In 2018, Lujan Grisham s predecessor, Gov. Susana Martinez, deployed state guardsmen to assist Border Patrol with non-enforcement activities, at the behest of President Donald Trump (a fellow Republican), in response to an increase in unlawful border crossings and resistance in Congress to Trump s promised border wall. 

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