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SENATE MEMORIAL 1

48

TH LEGISLATURE

- STATE OF NEW MEXICO -

FIRST SPECIAL SESSION

, 2007

INTRODUCED BY

Joseph J. Carraro

A MEMORIAL

REQUESTING THE GOVERNOR TO CALL OUT THE NEW MEXICO NATIONAL

GUARD TO CLOSE THE STATE'S BORDER WITH THE REPUBLIC OF MEXICO

IN ORDER TO STOP THE FLOW OF METHAMPHETAMINE FROM THE REPUBLIC

OF MEXICO INTO NEW MEXICO.

WHEREAS, methamphetamine is rapidly becoming the local

drug of choice in New Mexico's communities and is having an

overwhelming impact on local law enforcement and the criminal

justice system; and

WHEREAS, methamphetamine is a criminal-lifestyle drug and

fuels a broad range of felony criminal activity, including

automobile theft, forgery, credit-card fraud, identity theft,

mail theft, burglary and shoplifting; and

WHEREAS, a crackdown on methamphetamine laboratories in

the United States and tightened control over the chemicals used

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to make the drug have sparked a proliferation of

methamphetamine production in Mexico, including production from

so-called superlabs that can make twenty times more the amount

of methamphetamine than large clandestine methamphetamine

laboratories in the United States; and

WHEREAS, with fewer law enforcement resources in Mexico

dedicated to eliminating methamphetamine, and with Mexican drug

cartels importing from Asia vast quantities of the precursor

drugs and chemicals needed to manufacture methamphetamine,

there has been an increase in the amount of methamphetamine

seized in Mexico and at ports of entry along the southwest

border of the United States; and

WHEREAS, Mexican drug cartels are increasingly producing a

form of methamphetamine called crystal methamphetamine, or

"ice", which is far purer, and therefore even more highly

addictive, than powdered, home-cooked methamphetamine; and

WHEREAS, ice leads to a greater risk of overdose and

because ice costs more, thefts are increasing as people who

once manufactured methamphetamine at home now have to buy it;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE

OF NEW MEXICO that the governor be requested to call out the

New Mexico national guard to close and patrol the border

between New Mexico and the Republic of Mexico in order to

protect the citizens of New Mexico and the United States from

the scourge of methamphetamine; and

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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this memorial be

transmitted to the governor.

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