Timeline of Trump's impact on New Mexico border

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : "Nov. 5, 2024: Trump wins the presidential race.
54% : Martinez signals she'll collaborate with Trump as he seeks to enlist Southwestern governors in his enhanced crackdown on border crossings.
52% : Martinez is among several governors and Cabinet officials who join Trump at the White House for a meeting on border security.
35% : Sanctuary cities such as Santa Fe had drawn the ire of Trump, who had vowed to "cancel all federal funding" to such cities the day he takes office.Jan. 18, 2017:
30% : Trump is elected the 45th president of the United States, though New Mexico goes blue.Nov. 9, 2016: Republican Gov. Susana Martinez, whose relationship with Trump was rocky leading up to the election, extends an olive branch.
29% : "May 21, 2024: During a CNN interview, Lujan Grisham calls Republican presidential candidate Trump "the candidate of chaos" on the border for pushing to block a border security bill stalled in Congress due to Republican opposition.
23% : Oct. 31, 2024: Trump, the GOP nominee, attacks Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, on border security during a boisterous rally in Albuquerque in which he accuses Democrats of lax border enforcement that has allowed "criminals and terrorists [to] flood in your towns with deadly drugs and death [and] given your jobs to illegal migrants.
12% : Martinez, now the former governor, defends Trump's call for a border wall as part of a deal to end the federal government shutdown, saying "it's disgusting" not to call the situation on the U.S. Mexico-border a crisis.Jan. 11, 2019: After another visit to Sunland Park, Lujan Grisham says she sees she no immediate evidence of the security crisis described by Trump and presses U.S. officials there for more information about conditions inside a short-term detention facility for immigrants.

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