Harris and her team are just pulling leftists from around the country that need employment or a boost to the next political level. She is the former chairman of the NM DNC. From Wiki:
Haaland is a member of the Laguna Pueblo people and a 35th-generation New Mexican. Haaland is a political progressive who supports the movements to abolish ICE and to implement the Green New Deal and Medicare For All.
For New Mexican her selection as Interior Secretary is ten times worse than her elected position as Dem Rep for NM District 1. She is a rabid anti-oil, gas, mining activist who will have control of oil and gas leases, drilling and fracking on Federal lands and she has not been shy in her opposition to all fossil fuel extraction.
In New Mexico 40% of oil is produced on Federal lands and for natural gas it is over 50%. Over 39% of the total NM budget comes from direct and indirect revenues from the oil and gas industry. We who are associated with the industry are not optimistic that the great economic gains the industry had produced in NM before the pandemic will continue in our area. Hardest hit will be minorities as Hispanics (yes, including some illegals) have established or work in small businesses such as trucking, construction, and as heavy equipment operators. Many others have opened mobile food trucks that our RadDem governor isn't able to shut down. Many of those, without the educational or management ability or experience in oil and gas exploration or production operations, will find their futures severely limited when DOI's BLM staff reduces federal oil and gas operations.
Of course the budget impact on NM state government will be severe on top of the loss of tourism due to Gov. "Lockdown" Lujan-Grisham's shutdown of the state. However, the know- nothing liberal's in Santa Fe and northern New Mexico, school educated in climate change is an "existential threat" and diversity is always required everywhere regardless of merit, have no practical knowledge of how economies operate and expect continual bailouts from Uncle Sam.