Petition seeks to impeach Lujan Grisham over decision to pull back border troops

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. What?

I live in New Mexico and I hadn't yet seen this. I really doubt this will go anywhere. Lujan Grisham is a decent Governor (not my first choice, but better than the alternative) and she's going to be a vast improvement over our former Governor, La Tejana, otherwise known as Susana Martinez.

Here in New Mexico we understand that there's no border crisis. We also understand that a lot of our newcomers may not have certain kinds of documentation, and for the most part we don't give a flying fuck.

I have occasion to talk to recent immigrants, and invariably they are working at least two jobs. They are doing everything possible to make a good life for themselves, and a better life for their children. I am in awe of them.

What's both sad and scary is that so many people in this country have no clue what their own grandparents or great grandparents or however far back it goes for them, they have no clue what their ancestors went through. They have zero idea what the immigrant experience is all about. All four of my grandparents came here from Ireland at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries. They were fortunate in that they came here already speaking the language, but almost everyone else had to learn English. Which they did. Which recent and current immigrants also do.

Arrggghhh. Don't get me started. The only difference between me and the most recent arrival is when they or my grandparents arrived.