National Guard to be deployed to Española (New Mexico)

The Albuquerque Journal ^ | September 22, 2025 | Patrick Lohmann

[CedarDave]

New Mexico’s National Guard Adjutant General announced Monday that Guardsmen will soon be deployed to Española, a town of roughly 10,000 people in northern New Mexico whose leaders recently asked for state help dealing with a crime, drug and housing crisis.

Española will be the second New Mexico city to receive National Guard troops this year. Albuquerque, the state’s biggest city, has seen a monthslong troop deployment in support of the Albuquerque Police Department.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham authorized the deployments to both cities in emergency orders that cite rising crime and short-staffed law enforcement agencies. The governor’s Aug. 13 emergency order for the Española area authorized National Guard deployments, along with funding for emergency housing or health care help. Her office stressed at the time that there were no imminent plans to deploy National Guard troops to Española.

According to the executive order, police calls in the Española area have doubled in the last two years, and police dispatches to businesses have quadrupled in that same period. She also cited Rio Arriba County’s high overdose death rate, “with residents struggling with addiction to fentanyl and other illicit substances.” Lujan Grisham’s order also authorized $750,000 in emergency spending. Last week, the state health department reported Rio Arriba County is one of three in northern New Mexico with surging overdose deaths and overdose emergency room visits.

While the decision has now been made to send them, the number of troops, as well as their assignment, is still being determined, National Guard Adjutant General Miguel Aguilar told Source New Mexico on Monday after presenting in Albuquerque to the interim Courts, Corrections and Criminal Justice committee of the Legislature.

[CedarDave]

Crime is so bad in Albuquerque and now Española that the MLG had to call out the Guard. In ABQ the "progressive" Dem mayor had little choice as the city is routinely listed as one of the worst with respect to drugs and crime.

[InsidiousMongo]

As if the Old One wasn’t a Hell hole enough.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

New Mexico: Where Colorado dumps its garbage.

[CedarDave]

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[SuperLuminal]

This communist-sympathizer must be in real trouble to take this Trumpian-style step...

New Mexico is one of the most beautiful states, and is now a cesspool of mexican communism...

[laplata]

“New Mexico: Where Colorado dumps its garbage”.

Where did you ever get that crap from?

[laplata]

It’s been that way for many years. I remember Reis Tijerina.

[laplata]

Espanola used to be called The Low Rider capitol of the world.

[Responsibility2nd]

Must be them pesky White Christian Nationalists again.

[know.your.why]

Espanola has got exponentially worse since I was there as a kid from 1973-1984...but it has always been on the “shoithole scale”. In 1984 it was called “The Lowrider Capital of the USA”. Today its called “The Heroin Capital of New Mexico”.

[ConservativeMind]

“New Mexico: Where Colorado dumps its garbage.”

LOL!

[Cheesehead in Texas]

Besides being the low-rider capital of the world, Española is known for inbreeding. A place where the family trees don’t have no branches. It’s too bad that such a beautiful and historic state has such a terrible government, it’s like Nicaragua of the North.

[RitchieAprile]

That’s Whittier, Califas..

[Tellurian]

Let's take a trip down Whittier Boulevard, arriba, arriba

[laplata]

Lol I guess they were rivals.

[laplata]

That’s right. I knew a guy from Espanola who was married to one of his cousins. That was a long time ago and am sure it hasn’t changed.

There are numerous little towns and villages in that area and they’re like spider web of what you say.

[Kleon]

That’s not how you spell Chicago.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

In 2018, a District of Columbia (DC) marriage license clerk did not recognize the New Mexico ID as one of the States of the United States. Apparently, she was ahead of her time.

[laplata]

You’re right. I was in Abiquiu from 1958 until I went into the Army in 1970.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Tierra O Muerte…

My nephew joined the NM State Police. He was from Long Beach California. They posted him is Rio Arriba County.

I think he lasted about a year.