NEIL: ALL RIGHT, WE TOLD YOU AT
THE START OF THE BROADCAST THAT
THE NUMBER ONE ISSUE FOR
AMERICANS IS IN THE LATEST FOX
NEWS POLL LOOKING AT DEMOCRATS
AND REPUBLICANS IS IMMIGRATION,
AND DOESN'T THIS NEXT FELLOW NO
IT, A COUNTY IN NEW MEXICO JUST
DECLARING A STATE OF EMERGENCY
AT THE BORDER AND THIS GUY HAS
ASKED THE GOVERNOR THERE TO HELP
THEM OUT BY DEPLOYING NATIONAL
GUARD TROOPS, BUT GOVERNOR GRISH
AM IS NOT COMPLYING TELLING
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO ASK THE
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY,
JOINING US IS NOW THE COUNTY
COMMISSIONER, AND GOOD TO HAVE
YOU THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME.
>> NEIL I APPRECIATE YOU HAVING
ME ON.
NEIL: SO THE GOVERNOR SAYS NO,
TALK TO DHS, HAVE YOU TALKED TO
DHS?
>> NO, SIR WE HAVEN'T.
WE'VE JUST BEGAN THIS PROCESS,
NEIL, BY DECLARING THIS STATE OF
EMERGENCY IN OTERO COUNTY, HOME
OF HOLEMAN AIR FORCE BASE BUT
THIS IS JUST A CRY OUT, NEIL
THAT WE NEED HELP.
OUR BORDER CHECKPOINTS HAVE BEEN
SHUT DOWN SINCE MARCH 25 AND
THOSE CHECKPOINTS WEREN'T PUT IN
PLACE FOR NO REASON.
THEY SERVE A PURPOSE.
THEY MONITOR ILLEGAL DRUG
TRAFFICKING AND ILLEGAL ACTIVIT
IES AND WITH THOSE CHECK
POINTS BEING SHUT DOWN
RIGHT NOW AS WE SPEAK, IT JUST
PUTS THE CONSTITUENTS THAT I'VE
BEEN VOTED INTO OFFICE BY AT
RISK.
NEIL: YOU KNOW FOR A LOT OF
FOLKS WOULD DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU
ARE YOU'RE REALLY ON SORT OF IN
A POSITION HERE PHYSICALLY ON
THE TEXAS AND RIGHT AT THE BRINK
OF THE MEXICO BORDER SO
YOU'RE RIGHT AT THE GROUND ZERO
IN THIS BATTLE.
WE'RE GOING TO SHOW THAT SHORTLY
THERE.
>> THAT'S CORRECT.
NEIL: WHAT DO YOU MAKE THOUGH OF
THE FACT THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE
ARE JUST SAYING OH, THIS IS OVER
STATED AND THIS ISN'T A BIG
ISSUE AND THEN YOU HEAR REPORTS
OUT THAT A NUMBER OF THE TOP
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES COREY BOOK
ER SAYING THERE IS AN
EMERGENCY GOING ON AT THE BORDER
>> YOU KNOW, MY MESSAGE WOULD
BE TO THOSE THAT SAY THERE'S NOT
REALLY ANYTHING GOING ON THERE,
THERE'S NO REAL REASON FOR
CONCERN, WOULD BE THAT THEY
DON'T LIVE IN THE STATE THAT I
LIVE IN.
YOU KNOW, NEW MEXICO IS ALREADY
OPPRESSED ENOUGH AS IT IS.
RECENT DATA CAME OUT SHOWING
THAT NEW MEXICO LEADS THE UNITED
STATES IN CHILD POVERTY, ONE-
THIRD OF OUR NATIVE AMERICAN
FOLKS LIVING IN NEW MEXICO LIVE
AT OR BELOW THE POVERTY LEVEL.
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO THE CITY
THAT I'M IN RIGHT NOW LEADS THE
NATION IN AUTO THEFT.
YOU KNOW, NEW MEXICO IS REALLY
SUFFERING IN SO MANY AREAS.
DATA WAS JUST GATHERED RECENTLY
THAT RATED THE DIFFERENT STATES
IN THE UNITED STATES AND THEIR
DESIREABILITY TO LIVE IN AND NEW
MEXICO WAS RANKED THE LEAST
DESIRABLE STATE IN THE UNITED
STATES TO LIVE IN, AND THE
TRAVESTY OF IT IS NEIL THAT NEW
MEXICO HAS SO MUCH TO OFFER.
WE HAVE A DIVERSE PUBLIC LAND,
WE HAVE A DIVERSE CULTURE, WE
HAVE A GREAT CLIMATE, WE HAVE A
RICH SOUTHEAST CORNER WITH OIL &
GAS, BUT BY US BEING RANKED THE
LEAST DESIRABLE STATE IN THE
UNITED STATES, THAT JUST GOES
BACK TO OUR POLITICS IN THE
STATE OF NEW MEXICO RIGHT NOW,
AND IT'S UNFORTUNATE FOR THE
PEOPLE OF THIS GREAT STATE
BECAUSE NEW MEXICO IS MY HOME.
I GO BACK GENERATIONS.
NEIL: WHAT IS THIS STATE OF
EMERGENCY MEAN THEN COMMISSIONER
WHAT POWERS DO YOU HAVE WHEN IT
COMES TO THIS BORDER CRISIS HOW
TO DEAL WITH IT IF THE GOVERNOR
IS NOT GOING TO CONCUR?
>> WELL I TELL YOU, NEIL, IN
REGARDS TO THE POWER THAT THE
COUNTIES HAVE IN REGARDS TO THE
CONSTITUTION, WE HAVE TREMENDOUS
POWER, AND SO --
NEIL: TO DO WHAT, JUST EDUCATE
ME.
WHAT DO YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO
>> WELL, WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO
SUPPORT OUR LOCALLY-ELECTED
COUNTY SHERIFF.
OUR SHERIFF HAS A TREMENDOUS
AMOUNT OF POWER AND ME AS A
COUNTY COMMISSIONER AS WELL AS A
SHERIFF OF MY COUNTY HAVE SWORN
AN OATH TO THE PEOPLE OF OUR
COUNTY OF OTERO COUNTY TO
PROTECT AND TO SERVE THEM AND TO
LOOK OUT FOR THE WELL BEING OF
THE PEOPLE OF MY COUNTY, SO THIS
CRY OUT TO OUR GOVERNOR, THIS
DECLARATION OF AN EMERGENCY IS
JUST, IT'S LIKE US WAVING A
WHITE FLAG.
I MEAN AGAIN, LIKE I JUST
MENTIONED, WE'RE GETTING OVERRUN
RIGHT NOW WITH IMMIGRANT
S AND THE CARTEL HAS A
GREEN LIGHT DURING TO GO THROUGH
TWO MAJOR CORRIDORS, U.S. 54 AND
U.S. HIGHWAY 70.
THOSE ARE BOTH KNOWN AVENUES
THAT THE CARTEL USES TO MUSCLE
SMUGGLE DRUGS AND INSIDE OF MY
COUNTY RIGHT NOW ACCORDING TO
FRIENDS OF MINE THAT WORK
UNDERCOVER NARCOTICS THE LEVEL
OF ACTIVITY HAS NEVER BEEN
HIGHER.
ONE OF THE UNDERCOVER NARCOTICS
I SPOKE WITH THE OTHER DAY SAID
THAT THE STASH HOUSES ALONG OUR
SOUTHERN BORDER ARE BEING EMPT
IED RIGHT NOW AND SHUTTLED
NORTH BECAUSE OF UNCONTROLLED
CHECKPOINTS, AND IN NEW MEXICO
AND IN MY COUNTY WE HAVE A
PROBLEM BUT I SPEAK TO THE REST
OF THE UNITED STATES, BECAUSE
THOSE DRUGS COMING UP OUT OF
MEXICO COMING THROUGH MY COUNTY
WILL SOON BE IN A NEIGHBORHOOD
NEAR YOU SO I WOULD ASK YOU TO
PLEASE GIVE HEED TO OUR CRY OUT
WITH THIS DECLARATION.