{"id":992,"date":"2011-09-20T11:58:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T16:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bnhr.org\/?p=992"},"modified":"2011-09-20T12:03:51","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T17:03:51","slug":"hundreds-gather-in-mesilla-plaza-tell-senators-to-reject-an-anti-immigrant-agenda-in-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/hundreds-gather-in-mesilla-plaza-tell-senators-to-reject-an-anti-immigrant-agenda-in-new-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds Gather In Mesilla Plaza Tell Senators to Reject An Anti-Immigrant Agenda in New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/GEDC1411.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-993\" title=\"Mesilla New Mexico Driver's License Protest\" src=\"http:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/GEDC1411.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"483\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/GEDC1411.jpg 4608w, https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/GEDC1411-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/GEDC1411-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(LAS CRUCES, New Mexico) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Holding photos of their children and families, hundreds of southern New Mexico residents gathered in the Plaza in Old Mesilla Monday to tell Sens. Steve Fischmann and Mary Kay Papen that enough is enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153She keeps talking about terrorists getting fake licenses,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Araceli Alvarado, of Las Cruces, of Gov. Susana Martinez. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not a terrorist. My license isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fake. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a mom and I have to drive my kids to school.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The governor has been pushing an agenda based on fear in the state. And today, hundreds of constituents from Districts 37 and 38 told the senators to stand on principle.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Any vote to repeal the law is a vote for radical, right-wing, tea party politics,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Jose Manuel Escobedo, Policy Director of BNHR. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A vote for repeal is not based on what is best for the state, but based on the politics that rile up the governor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s base.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(LAS CRUCES, New Mexico) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Holding photos of their children and families, hundreds of southern New Mexico residents gathered in the Plaza in Old Mesilla Monday to tell Sens. Steve Fischmann and Mary Kay&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bnhr.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}