My understanding is that Santa Fe had to start hiring
Green Card Mexican Nationals to be their police officers...
no one else could “afford” to live there at the pay scale the city provided.
Family and I spent one night(2001) in Tierra Amarilla...famous for a 1967 “raid” led by Reises Tijerina (a Texan)-I will not involve myself in their local politics...
But the People of Tierra Amarilla are wonderful people and
treated my family well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_Amarilla,_New_Mexico
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reies_Tijerina
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alianza_Federal_de_Mercedes
There are some nice people around, to be sure, but there are still some odd things going on up there. Google the town of Dulce (which is the center of the Jicarilla Apache reservation), and see what comes up! Make sure your tinfoil hat is on nice and tight.