If youve got the money, you can book a trip with a marijuana-centric travel agency. Brennan Linsley/The Associated Press, Puebloan Dylan Aragon cheers after being the first resident to purchase recreational marijuana at Marisol Theraputics shortly after 8 a.m. Wendesday, Jan. 1, 2014 in Pueblo West, Colo. Couy Griffin, chairman of the Otero County Board of Commissioners, stands at the Border Patrol's abandoned U.S. Route 70 checkpoint in New Mexico. He likens Yuma to Americas front door. He wears a wide-brimmed cowboy hat and owns a nearby barbecue cafe whose trademark is a giant replica of a six-gun. "The National Guard cannot do immigration work. if you live in any of these states, i recommend you look at these federal Most asylum applications get rejected in the U.S. Cases can last years. Unlike the city of Amsterdam, where there are countless coffeehouses where you can buy grass and smoke it right on the premises, smoking at a licensed marijuana seller is prohibited by Colorado law. I've also seen this very occasionally between Albuquerque and Santa Fe and Albuquerque and Los Lunas to the south on weekends. Some vehicles are pulled into a secondary inspection point, where agents ask more questions. Courtesy Taos County Sheriff's Office. for 91 days, $53.46 Your auto pay plan will be conveniently renewed at the end of the subscription period. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. Box 500 Station A Scenes from an American migration crisis - CBC The vigilantes themselves say theyve intercepted shipments. ta.queueForLoad : function(f, g){document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', f);})(function(){ta.trackEventOnPage('postLinkInline', 'impression', 'postLinks-88191069', '');}, 'log_autolink_impression');Santa Fe. For readers who live in New Mexico but outside of Taos County. Cookie Notice Normally, if you drive from Las Cruces to Alamogordo, N.M., on U.S. Route 70, you have to pull into a federal inspection station. . Officers need a reasonable cause to stop a vehicle. We used to have a customized van so we knew we'd be stopped. Border Patrol did not clarify if there are plans to reopen the permanent checkpoint on I-25. Southbound traffic isn't stopped. And when they boarded the bus, she said, the driver told her they were lucky: This spot, behind a hill, was notorious for rapes and murders, the diver said. We offer home delivery of the Taos News in selected areas within Taos. DO check with your hotel, lodge, restaurant or club about their policy regarding marijuana smoking. I told them to have a heart the kids havent eaten lunch and they need to eat something. ta.queueForLoad : function(f, g){document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', f);})(function(){ta.trackEventOnPage('postLinkInline', 'impression', 'postLinks-40263052', '');}, 'log_autolink_impression');cars for illegals and/or drugs. What museums to see in central & northern NM? A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. The Taos News mailed to your out of state residence everyweek for 13 weeks! Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. Welcome! The Border Patrol routinely reports on large drug busts and arrests of undocumented migrants made at checkpoints. Albuquerque, NM 87106 They leave you without a cent, Mayely said, in an interview at the border after she crossed in February. You have permission to edit this article. Not sure why the worry, usually doesn't take more than a few minutes. Once, on an Interstate, everyone was funneled through a Border Patrol inspection area, but they weren't interested in us, they just waved us through. Like the bus driver who waited for Carla, and the police officer who advised her on the safest path to cross. Drivers this week reported seeing one such Customs and Border Protection has closed all six checkpoints in the El Paso Sector, which covers West Texas and New Mexico. Lucas Peerman can be reached at 575-541-5446, lpeerman@lcsun-news.com or @LittleGuyInATie on Twitter. It doesn't make any sense.". CBC News sent several emails to a special unit in Mexicos national prosecutors office that is tasked with enforcing Mexicos migration law, and punishing public servants who abuse migrants. Although out-of-state residents may only purchase a quarter of an ounce of cannabis at a time in Colorado, theres nothing to prevent a tourist in Pueblo from buying a quarter-ounce from The Greener Side and then driving over to Marisol and buying a second quarter-ounce. They dont care if you have enough to eat or not. blue on the map and those in New Mexico are orange. ) or https:// means youve safely connected to the .gov website. She said the surge in demand for social services during the pandemic was compounded by migration. Port Name. Your auto pay plan will be conveniently renewed at the end of the subscription period. I remember there is one when driving north but is there one heading south? Checkpoints are integral to the Border Patrol's security mission. Mayely says she experienced two such incidents: First, it was officers in blue uniforms near Veracruz, then, a second time, near Mexico City, where she said it was immigration agents. for 365 days, $71.00 There's no checkpoints. If you do the route #2 route do not do I-25 to US 70,as there is a Border Patrol check-point just before White Sands on US70 in the Eastbound direc Delaware State Police officers have set up checkpoints near state borders (but not on Interstate highways) because, as a no-sales-tax state, residents of nearby Maryland and Pennsylvania like to shop there. But they are stopping drivers with license tags from other states.