{"id":17210,"date":"2010-05-12T13:22:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T19:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=17210"},"modified":"2010-05-12T13:22:47","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T19:22:47","slug":"lc-mayor-changes-mind-on-arizona-immigration-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/05\/lc-mayor-changes-mind-on-arizona-immigration-law\/","title":{"rendered":"LC mayor changes mind on Arizona immigration law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11667\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11667\" title=\"Miyagishima, Ken\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Miyagishima-Ken-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima (Photo by Heath Haussamen)\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Miyagishima-Ken-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Miyagishima-Ken.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Las Cruces Mayor <a href=\"http:\/\/las-cruces.org\/council\/mayor.shtm\">Ken Miyagishima<\/a> says he\u2019s withdrawing a proposed resolution denouncing Arizona\u2019s new immigration law after learning of amendments to the law, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/las_cruces-news\/ci_15066723\">Las Cruces Sun-News<\/a> is reporting.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor was quoted by the newspaper as saying he learned about the changes to the law on Monday. After reading a copy of the law as it now stands, Miyagishima said he no longer has concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The law was narrowed to require local, county and state law enforcement officers to scrutinize the immigration status only of people who they stop, detain or arrest. It was also amended to disallow ethnicity as the sole reason to suspect someone of an immigration violation.<\/p>\n<p>Miyagishima pointed to the new provision that says immigration must be checked only during a lawful stop and with reasonable suspicion.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a little stricter than what we have in effect, but it\u2019s essentially the same,\u201d the newspaper quoted Miyagishima as saying. \u201cThat wasn\u2019t something I read in the original bill. The House bill addressed a lot of my concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that I have this, I\u2019m actually OK with it,\u201d the newspaper quoted the mayor as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Miyagishima had originally proposed a resolution denouncing the new law.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the New York Times ran a profile today of New Mexico and Arizona as two states \u201cside by side, but divided over immigration.\u201d It\u2019s worth a read. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/12\/us\/12newmexico.html\">here<\/a> to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima says he\u2019s withdrawing a proposed resolution denouncing Arizona\u2019s new immigration law after learning of amendments to the law, the Las Cruces Sun-News is reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[140,145],"class_list":["post-17210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-border-and-immigration","tag-las-cruces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}