Sam Bregman

Listen, I think everybody across this country can agree that what we're seeing with ICE

is horrific in so many different ways.

And certainly it's unconstitutional, but it's also a violation of state law.

If ICE comes in without a warrant, without reasonable suspicion, without probable cause, that is false imprisonment in New Mexico.

You can't confine, restrain, or detain someone without proper legal authority to do so.

And there's no exception for law enforcement as well.

So we are going to hold ICE accountable.

And if people commit felonies in my county, I'm going to prosecute them.

And I'm very concerned with the, I don't know if it's the training, perhaps it is the training, but I'm very concerned with the way they are handling things right now.

You cannot pull someone over because they're brown or because they speak Spanish in New Mexico, which is a majority minority state, pull them over for no traffic violation, just to check to make sure they're a citizen of the United States.

That is unacceptable conduct at every level.

In fact, if they have no warrant, reasonable suspicion or probable cause, it's a felony.

And I, I am,

the chief law enforcement officer in the county of Bernalillo, city of Albuquerque, we're gonna make sure people abide by the law.

There are laws out there to make sure people follow them.

And this is, I don't want New Mexico going down this road.

I just can't accept it.

We can't normalize.

the idea of throwing the Fourth Amendment and throwing all of our criminal laws out the window to appease ICE.

It's not gonna happen.