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ICE agents no longer allowed access to inmate information
Bernalillo County is now more “immigrant-friendly” after commissioners passed a resolution Tuesday night, that's according to county commissioners.
Bernalillo County declared itself an immigrant-friendly county in 2017.
Commissioner Steven Michael Quezada proposed a resolution strengthening the county’s non-discrimination policies.
“All humans are the same no matter where they come from or how they got here,” Quezada said.
The resolution would not allow Immigrantion and Customs Enforcement agents to access information on inmates in the Bernalillo County jail.
Agents would need a federal warrant to access any information.
According to our partners at the Albuquerque Journal, in general, about once a week, ICE agents visited the Bernalillo County jail, made their way past the lobby and accessed the records department, getting personal information on inmates without a warrant.
“Just because you are up there, you are not a criminal. You have to be proven guilty, and again, that is a human right,” Quezada said. He added, “If they are truly a criminal and they committed a crime, this does not protect them.”
Quezada said at the end of the day, there is a process that needs to be fol
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Quezada complains arrival against person commissioner, who throws remorseless shade his way
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Bernalillo County commissioners debate selection process for new county manager
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – In three months, the Bernalillo County Commission will have to select a new county manager. But deciding on how that will happen has turned into a big debate.
Unlike a city mayor, voters don’t elect a county manager. County commissioners make that decision.
On Tuesday night, Bernalillo County Commissioner Steven Michael Quezada introduced a resolution to make that process more transparent to the public, but it isn’t going anywhere, for now.
This is all happening because current county manager, Julie Morgas Baca, is retiring in three months.
Quezada’s resolution would offer a series of town halls and information sessions in every district, along with a question and answer session with finalists.
He says he’s worried about the repercussions if the selection process isn’t open up more to the people of Bernalillo County.
“I just have a bad feeling that they’re just going to put somebody in that kind of follows whatever political stance that they do, and a county manager can not do that. A county manager has to be neutral, he or she has to represent both sides and do the right thing for as many people as they possibl