> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.newmexicomadness.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Deb Haaland’s Crime Plan: Porch Lights for Thieves, Therapy for TikTok, and a 500-Yard Forcefield Around ICE - URL: https://www.newmexicomadness.com/deb-haaland-crime-plan-tiktok-therapy-porch-lights-ice/ - Published: 2026-10-25T15:18:39.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-25T15:18:39.000Z - Author: Duke of New Mexico - Tags: State New Mexico does not need embellishing. We rank first in the nation in property crime, second in violent crime, first in alcohol-related deaths, and first in the country for our recent surge in drug overdose deaths. Thirty of our 33 counties are poorer than the national average, and more than 90,000 New Mexico children live below the poverty line. Every election cycle, Santa Fe politicians show up with a bright new idea on how to spend our money while the crime persists or gets worse. Now comes Deb Haaland with a 19-page blueprint titled *A Route to a Safer New Mexico*. Read it cover to cover and one thing becomes obvious: Haaland doesn’t view New Mexico’s crime wave as a breakdown in law and order. She views it as a staffing shortage of state bureaucrats. Instead of putting repeat felons behind bars, Haaland’s plan asks taxpayers to fund a permanent wish list of new state offices, salaried coordinators, and social-work experiments that leave working New Mexicans paying the tab and locking their own doors. ### A Social Worker for Your 911 Call and a Porch Light for Your Business With New Mexico leading the entire country in property crime at 2,239.5 offenses per 100,000 residents—46 percent above the national average—and motor vehicle thefts and burglaries sitting at nearly double the national rate, you might expect a serious crackdown on career thieves. Haaland’s answer is to scale Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller’s social-worker experiment statewide. Her flagship proposal is a "first-in-the-nation" state Office of Community Safety staffed with social workers, counselors, and behavioral health specialists to answer 911 calls. Albuquerque already runs that exact model, and New Mexico still ranks second in the nation in violent crime. What about the smash-and-grab crews bleeding local retailers and homeowners dry? On page four of her plan, under the bold header "Stop theft," Haaland proposes helping homeowners and businesses "increase lighting and retrofit their property against theft." When a repeat offender kicks in your shop door for the fourth time this year, Santa Fe won’t keep him in a cell—but under Governor Haaland, you might get a state-assisted floodlight to watch him load up his truck in high definition. ### TikTok Withdrawal Therapy while 90,000 Kids Live in Poverty Nowhere is Haaland’s disconnect from working families more glaring than on page nine. Across New Mexico, 30 of 33 counties have higher child poverty rates than the United States average of 15.5 percent. In 10 counties—including Catron (38.5 percent), Socorro (37.5 percent), San Miguel (36.3 percent), Sierra (34.1 percent), Hidalgo (34.1 percent), Luna (33.3 percent), and Cibola (33.4 percent)—at least one in three children lives in poverty. What is Haaland’s big public safety breakthrough for New Mexico youth? She literally proposes using taxpayer money to "subsidize therapy for children under 15 years old who are experiencing addiction withdrawals from social media." While families in 26 counties battle worse-than-average child poverty and grandparents raise kids shattered by the fentanyl crisis, Haaland wants to bill taxpayers for iPad detox counseling and send state outreach workers to lecture "low information communities" in government parenting classes. ### Eight New Bureaucracies, Zero Mentions of DWI or Alcohol Count the permanent government payroll expansions packed into Haaland’s 19 pages: - A statewide Office of Community Safety for 911 social workers - A dedicated Gun Violence Prevention Coordinator and task force - A permanent Office of Gun Violence Prevention alongside new restrictions on licensed firearm dealers - A New Mexico court task force to study other states’ courts - A centralized executive team to manage forensic waitlists - Regional "survivor navigators" and new layers of public-defender social workers - A permanent commission to oversee the failing Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD) - Taxpayer-funded mortgage and down-payment subsidies for both police and public defenders Yet in all 19 pages of a public safety and behavioral health plan, the words "alcohol" and "DWI" do not appear once. New Mexico has ranked number one in the nation in alcohol-related deaths since 1997, with a mortality rate of 88.9 per 100,000—and nearly five times the national rate in McKinley County (247.2). Just this week, the state Department of Health confirmed alcohol deaths rose another 2.6 percent to over 1,756 deaths a year. One in five deaths among working-age New Mexicans is alcohol-related, and our police made 7,086 DUI arrests over the past year—the highest arrest rate among neighboring states. Haaland doesn't devote a single syllable to DWI enforcement. As for drugs, Haaland insists on addressing substance use "with treatment and recovery rather than incarceration," and somehow blames former Governor Susana Martinez—who left office eight years ago—for today’s crisis. Meanwhile, CDC data reported by UNM Health Sciences shows New Mexico now leads the nation in drug overdose death increases after a 28 percent year-over-year spike. Passing out free naloxone and building "Housing First" apartments "without barriers to entry"—meaning zero sobriety requirements—is not a drug strategy. It is state-funded surrender. ### Fighting Cartels by Banning ICE from the Courthouse The peak comedy arrives when you read pages five and six alongside pages 17 and 18. First, Haaland vows to bring together local, state, and federal law enforcement to "aggressively target fentanyl suppliers" and crush human trafficking rings. Twelve pages later, in a section titled "Stand Up to ICE," she pledges to end local police cooperation agreements with federal immigration agents, block other states’ National Guard troops from helping New Mexico, and ban ICE from operating within 500 yards of any state courthouse or government building. New Mexico is a frontline border state housing three major federal detention facilities in Cibola, Otero, and Torrance counties. Instead of backing border enforcement, Haaland brags in her crime plan about visiting the Cibola County detention center—in a county with 28.4 percent overall poverty—to sympathize with detainees. You cannot smash cartel fentanyl networks and human traffickers on page five while banning federal agents from the courthouse steps and cancelling police cooperation on page 18\. Forcing local sheriffs to release criminal non-citizens back onto our streets rather than handing them over at the jailhouse doesn't protect New Mexico families. It protects the cartels. ### The Bottom Line for Voters New Mexicans are tired of paying for progressive science projects while locking their steering wheels and burying loved ones to fentanyl and drunk drivers. You don't need a 20-page manual to see the contrast in this race. Republican Gregg Hull helped run Rio Rancho, one of the safest and fastest-growing cities in New Mexico, by backing real police officers, enforcing the law, and proposing to phase out the state income tax so working families can keep their own money. Deb Haaland’s plan gives criminals a social worker, gives thieves a brighter porch light, gives teenagers state-funded TikTok therapy, and gives taxpayers the permanent bill. Vote accordingly. --- #### Endnotes 1. ****Deb Haaland Public Safety Proposals:** Deb Haaland for New Mexico, **A Route to a Safer New Mexico* (19-page campaign policy plan, 2026). Specific proposals referenced by page: statewide Office of Community Safety modeled on Albuquerque (pp. 1–2); law enforcement mortgage/down-payment subsidies (p. 2); Gun Violence Prevention Coordinator, task force, Office of Gun Violence Prevention, and Stop Illegal Gun Trade Act (p. 3); assisting homeowners and businesses to "increase lighting and retrofit their property against theft" (p. 4); funding Public Defender social workers and housing subsidies (p. 5); targeting fentanyl suppliers and human trafficking (pp. 5–6); subsidizing therapy for children under 15 experiencing "addiction withdrawals from social media" and parenting classes for "low information communities" (p. 9); court specialization task force and centralized competency executive team (pp. 10–11); blaming the Susana Martinez administration, treatment over incarceration, and "Housing First" without barriers to entry (p. 12); CYFD commission (p. 15); Cibola County ICE facility visit, ending local police-ICE cooperation agreements, blocking out-of-state National Guard deployments, and banning ICE within 500 yards of state courthouses and government buildings (pp. 17–18). 2. ****FBI Property & Violent Crime Rankings:** Federal Bureau of Investigation, Crime Data Explorer (2024–2025 Uniform Crime Reporting / NIBRS state-level estimates), via USAFacts and SafeHome state crime analyses (2026). New Mexico ranks #1 nationally in property crime (2,239.5 per 100,000 in 2025; 2,751 per 100,000 in 2024, with motor vehicle theft at 520 per 100,000 and burglary at 518 per 100,000) and #2 nationally in violent crime (621.6 per 100,000 in 2025, behind only Alaska). 3. ****New Mexico County Poverty & Child Poverty Data:** U.S. Census Bureau, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE), 2024 data released January 2026 (Ages 0–17: 20.5% New Mexico child poverty rate vs. 15.5% U.S. rate; 90,276 children; 30 of 33 counties above the U.S. rate, led by Catron at 38.5%, Socorro at 37.5%, San Miguel at 36.3%, Sierra at 34.1%, Hidalgo at 34.1%, Cibola at 33.4%, and Luna at 33.3%). Overall county poverty from U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2020–2024 5-year estimates, Table B17001 (17.8% New Mexico vs. 12.5% U.S.; 30 of 33 counties above the U.S. rate; Cibola County at 28.4%). 4. ****Alcohol-Related Mortality & DUI Arrest Rates:** New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH), Indicator-Based Information System (NM-IBIS) and CDC WONDER, 2019–2023 age-adjusted alcohol-related deaths per 100,000 (88.9 NM vs. 50.9 U.S.; McKinley County at 247.2; #1 nationally since 1997; 1 in 5 working-age deaths ages 20–64). Recent 2024–2025 mortality increase (2.6% rise to 1,756+ annual deaths) reported by NMDOH / Source New Mexico, Oct. 20, 2026\. DUI arrest rate (7,086 arrests; 372 per 100,000 vs. 272 U.S. rate) and impaired driving fatality share (28% of traffic deaths) from NHTSA and FBI arrest data compiled Oct. 2026. 5. ****Drug Overdose Death Surge:** Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provisional drug overdose mortality data (March 2025–March 2026), reported by the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (**"Deadly Mix-Up: Fentanyl Exposure and Overdose Deaths Increasing Across New Mexico,"* Aug. 27, 2026), showing a 28% year-over-year increase placing New Mexico first in the nation for overdose death growth. 6. ****Gregg Hull Platform & Record:** Gregg Hull for Governor campaign platform (2026) and **"Four Steps to Zero"* personal income tax phase-out proposal (announced Oct. 5, 2026).