Living here in New Mexico, it’s impossible to ignore more attention and effort is placed into fully opening the Mexico-New Mexico border than opening our state from the governor’s forced mandates. I do not condone this messed up priority placing New Mexicans second to a federal-level partisan prank.Living here in New Mexico, it’s impossible to ignore more attention and effort is placed into fully opening the Mexico-New Mexico border than opening our state from the governor’s forced mandates. I do not condone this messed up priority placing New Mexicans second to a federal-level partisan prank.