Santa Fe New Mexican, Sept. 17, 2014

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Moratorium blocks La Bajada mine The Santa Fe County Commission has approved a 12-month hold on applications and permits for junkyards, landfills, and sand and gravel operations that involve blasting. LOCAL NEWS, B-1

SFCC names Grissom ‘to stabilize the ship’ The community college’s governing board has unanimously agreed to make its interim president permanent. LOCAL NEWS, B-1

Candidates battle over ballot questions INSIDE

Pot overshadows other issues at forum By Steve Terrell The New Mexican

Incumbent Secretary of State Dianna Duran and her Democratic opponent, Bernalillo County Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver, clashed Tuesday over Duran’s decision not to allow Santa Fe and Bernalillo counties to put a nonbinding question about marijuana on the ballot and Duran’s move earlier in the day to try to move a legal chal-

lenge to that decision from the state Supreme Court to federal court. The exchange happened at a candidate forum at Santa Fe Community College sponsored by the League of Women Voters. The two candidates for attorney general — Democrat Hector Balderas and Republican Susan Riedel — also talked about issues at the forum. Though neither candidate for secretary of state men-

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tioned this at the forum, there is a strong political undercurrent in the marijuana ballot issue in New Mexico as well as other states. Republicans have accused Democrats of trying to put such questions on the ballot in an effort to increase turnout among younger voters who tend not to participate in

Bernalillo County Clerk and secretary of state candidate Maggie Toulouse Oliver speaks Tuesday at a League of Women Voters forum at Santa Fe Community College. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

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Boeing, SpaceX win NASA contracts The deal will end NASA’s expensive reliance on Russia to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station. NATION & WORLD, A-2

Top general is open to deploying U.S. troops

ELECTION 2014: FACT CHECK

In speech, Martinez twists information about licenses

Rio Arriba jail rejects ICE hold requests Director says his policy honors due process rights, saves tax dollars By Uriel J. Garcia The New Mexican

Dempsey says he would recommend new ground operation if airstrikes fail By Mark Landler and Jeremy W. Peters The New York Times

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s top military adviser said Tuesday he would recommend deploying United States forces in ground operations against Islamic extremists in Iraq if airstrikes prove insufficient, opening the door to a riskier, more expansive American combat role than the president has publicly outlined. Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that while he was confident an American-led coalition would defeat the Islamic State, he would not foreclose the possibility of asking Obama to send U.S. troops to fight the militants on the ground — something Obama has ruled out. “My view at this point is that this coalition is the appropriate way forward. I believe that will prove true,” Dempsey said. “But if it fails to be true, and if there are threats to the United States, then I, of course, would go back to the president and make a recommendation that may include the use of U.S. military ground forces.” Dempsey acknowledged that this would run counter to the president’s policy, but he said, “He has told me as well to come back to him on a case-bycase basis.” The general’s statement lays bare the challenge the president will face in selling an expanded military

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Gov. Susana Martinez speaks Tuesday at the New Mexico Sheriffs’ Association Conference at the Drury Plaza Hotel. Immigrant driver’s licenses and marijuana were her main topics. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

Governor presents incorrect information on states’ licensing requirements By Milan Simonich The New Mexican

ov. Susana Martinez, facing a supportive audience of sheriffs from 16 states, mixed fiction with some facts Tuesday in describing New Mexico’s driver’s license law as a threat to public safety. Martinez said people who are in the country unlawfully obtain New Mexico driver’s licenses, then

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are able to “easily exchange” them for licenses from other states. She said New Mexico’s licensing law is spawning fraud across the country because states that never intended to license undocumented immigrants are doing so unwittingly. In her speech, Martinez named Georgia, Florida and New York as states that will issue a new driver’s license in exchange for one from New Mexico. But a check of all three of those

Obituaries

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Edward Lee Chavez, 64, Santa Fe, Sept. 10 Louis Emil Frosh, 92, Sept. 15 Connie R. Lucero, Sept. 9 Daniel O’Neil, Sept. 11

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states showed that no such license exchanges are allowed. Georgia, for instance, requires an applicant for a driver’s license to supply a birth certificate or passport, a Social Security card and two documents showing a residential address, such as utility bills. Florida and New York have similar requirements to establish the identity of applicants for driver’s

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Lannan Foundation: In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom Alfredo Corchado, Dallas Morning News Mexico bureau chief, discusses immigration, drug violence and U.S./Mexico foreign policy, 7 p.m., Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $6, discounts available, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

The Rio Arriba County jail is joining a growing number of detention centers that have decided to ignore requests from immigration authorities to hold undocumented immigrants accused of separate crimes. Jail Director Larry DeYapp said he changed his policy about two months ago and has notified U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency that deports undocumented immigrants, that his jail will no longer hold immigrants based on the agency’s request. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit — which hears cases from Delaware, New Jersey and parts of Pennsylvania — ruled in March that local law enforcement agencies are not required to honor ICE detainers on suspected undocumented immigrants. The ruling went on to say that ICE detainers are merely requests, not court orders, and that local agencies are not compelled to follow them. Following Congress’ efforts to stall immigration legislation and President Barack Obama’s recent statement that he will delay his promised executive order to overhaul the country’s immigration policies until after Election Day, county jails across the country, including in New Mexico, have shifted their positions on helping federal authorities deport undocumented immigrants. Most recently, officials with Bernalillo County, New Mexico’s most populous county, said the Metropolitan Detention Center would not hold inmates solely on the basis of a federal immigration detainer. In June, the Doña Ana County Detention Center also announced it would not honor the detainers. Pablo Sedillo, director of the Santa Fe County jail, has said his staff does not honor immigration detainers unless an inmate is suspected of a

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