N.M. Governor-Elect Rejects Arizona-Style Law

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Notimex, News Report, Posted: Nov 08, 2010

MIAMI -- New Mexico's governor-elect, Susana Martinez, told Univision that she doesn't want her state to enact an anti-immigrant law like that implemented in Arizona. 

In an interview Sunday with Jorge Ramos on the program Al Punto, the newly elected governor said she plans to repeal a law that allows undocumented immigrants to get driver's licenses in New Mexico.

"If they have licenses in New Mexico, then they'll be able to go anywhere," in the United States, Martinez said. She said her opposition to granting driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants in the state is preventative, so that "violence does not enter New Mexico."

But the governor-elect, who will take over from Gov. Bill Richardson in January, clarified, "I don't want an Arizona-style law in New Mexico."

Martinez is the first Latina Republican elected governor.
 

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