With parched migrants trudging into New Mexico\u2019s perilous desert and the region\u2019s residents clamoring for more robust border barriers, what is\u00a0Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham doing?<\/p>\n
Pulling back National Guard troops and reposting a comic video of her breaking through a thin wall of sheet rock. The freshman governor\u2019s unserious response would be laughable if the stakes weren\u2019t so deadly.<\/p>\n
In recent weeks, large numbers of Guatemalan families and unaccompanied children have surrendered to federal agents along a remote new smuggling route<\/a> into the Land of Enchantment.<\/p>\n It is where 7-year-old Jakelin Caal and her father were found Dec. 6 with 161 other illegal aliens near Antelope Wells. Young Jakelin died at an El Paso hospital after she had been transported to the nearest Border Patrol station 94 miles away.<\/p>\n Subsequently, a separate group of 247 men, women and children was apprehended in the same desolate area.<\/p>\n The Albuquerque Journal<\/a> appropriately describes New Mexico\u2019s border corridor as a \u201cdesert death trap \u2026 rugged, remote and ruthless.\u201d<\/p>\n Up in Santa Fe, Gov. Lujan Grisham seems blissfully unconcerned. The Democrat dismisses President Trump\u2019s border protection efforts as a \u201ccharade\u201d<\/a> and tweeted a video that went viral<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Here’s what I think of Trump’s wall,” she announced, before crashing into a partition staged for her antic breakthrough.<\/p>\n Her constituents deserve better. New Mexico border residents cite four specific reasons<\/a> why their state needs a wall: Law-enforcement officers are too far away; barbed-wire fencing isn\u2019t working; the Border Patrol is spread too thin; and technology can only do so much.<\/p>\n