New Mexico Governor Accuses Homeland Security Director of Looking the Other Way When Drugs Cross Her Border

New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham can be heard saying on a newly leaked recording that she was “offended” when the secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reacted to her concern about a the fact that New Mexico marijuana businesses report that more than dozen CBP seizures, particularly at interior checkpoints around the Las Cruces area, are happening. Since adult-use marijuana sales launched in the state in 2022, the operators say they’ve generally been able to transport their products to testing facilities and retailers without incident.

Starting around two months ago the agency has taken a more proactive approach to enforcing federal prohibition, taking hundreds of pounds of cannabis at the checkpoints inside the state of New Mexico. CBP is able to carry out its activities within 100 miles of the U.S. border. According to our previously run story New Mexico Governor Grisham Challenges Federal Seizures of Cannabis from Licensed Distributors she claimed she was going to address the issue with the Federal Government.

 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reacted to her concern about a recent surge in Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seizures of marijuana from state-licensed businesses in her state by saying, “Who cares? They make a lot of money.”

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) told DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, “Well first of all, it’s patients’ medicine,” she said to an unnamed federal official she was speaking with in the new recording, describing herself as “cranky” with the secretary. “So I was really offended by that. Shame on him.”

The audio, leaked by an account on X called Chaos Coordinator on Thursday, also reveals that the governor notified the Biden administration official that the solution is either adjusting the policy causing the problem or her sending an official letter “saying you’re persecuting the state.” 

Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham can be heard accusing President Joe Biden's administration of "persecuting" her state in a secretly captured audio recording. Her spokesperson told Newsweek and other press sources that her thoughts on the matter are nothing new.

Lujan Grisham, seemingly while on an airline flight, says in the recording that she is "cranky" with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas because she does not "have a single Border Patrol agent" in Sunland Park, a small southern New Mexico city on the U.S.-Mexico border.

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