Countermeasures to Trump inundate New Mexico Legislature

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Several countermeasures against directives from President Donald Trump are making their way through New Mexico’s Democratic-controlled Legislature.

Lawmakers in the House are preparing for a vote as soon as Tuesday on a bill to prohibit state cooperation [auth] with federal efforts to extend a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Other pending bills seek to ensure the New Mexico National Guard and state and local law enforcement steer clear of enforcing federal immigration law.

As Republicans in Washington move to overhaul former President Barack Obama’s health care law, New Mexico legislators want to enshrine into state law low-cost access to contraceptives and to study effects on a state health care system that depends heavily on federal Medicaid funding.

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