The ACLU of New Mexico, the New Mexico Immigrant Law Center (NMILC), and the Santa Fe Dreamers Project (SFDP) demand action amid the emerging public health crisis in New Mexico’s three immigration detention centers.
Today, ACLU-NM filed a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus in the First Judicial District Court, demanding the release of a woman held in Santa Fe County Jail on a non-serious probation violation. Yesenia Evans suffers from systemic sclerosis, making her especially vulnerable to COVID-19.
Today, the ACLU sent letters to Governor Michelle Lujan-Grisham, Mayor Tim Keller, Mayor Allen Webber, and the New Mexico Congressional delegation, urging them to ensure people in New Mexico will be able to access reproductive healthcare as the COVID-19 public health crisis continues to unfold.
Yesterday, Sandoval County attorney Robin S. Hammer asked a judge to order its detention center to release all people who are incarcerated for nonviolent and misdemeanor offenses and to decline to book anyone else on those charges.
Yesterday, the Albuquerque City Council voted to pass legislation broadening the mayor’s powers during a public health emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Below is a comment from Peter Simonson, executive director of the ACLU of New Mexico.
ALBUQUERQUE, NM - Today, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Mexico and civil rights law firm Kennedy Kennedy & Ives announced that they had reached a 4 million dollar settlement with Bernalillo County on behalf of the family of Elisha Lucero.