From time to time, I post follow-ups to specific items mentioned at the previous Indivisible Santa Fe meeting. Information related to and recommended actions from February 16 meeting, below.

Protecting against ICE and CBP

Indivisible Santa Fe is involved in a number of activities to protect those most vulnerable to aggressive and overreaching ICE and CBP activities.

  1. We continue to distribute signs and information to businesses who want to assert their rights to limit ICE or CBP entry into their premises. If you know a business who would like to post a sign, you can get one from Heidi at weekly meetings.
  2. We are assembling thousands of whistle kits for distribution throughout the area. For information on how to help get these ready, contact communications@indivisiblesantafe.org.
  3. We have an ongoing, organized effort to distribute information sheets about how to handle ICE and CBP car stops and about tricks or ruses ICE and CBP use to gather information and make arrests. If you would like to assist, contact strategy@indivisiblesantafe.org.
  4. Some of our members are working with community leaders on ICE Watch and Rapid Response efforts.

Let New Mexico's U.S. Senators hear from you

Two items of particular importance to phone or email about:

  1. Congress is negotiating new funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). We want Senators Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Lujan to stand firm in their opposition to any further funding for DHS unless major reforms are made to ICE and CBP. Contact information for both here.
  2. After stalling in the Senate last spring, H.R.22 — also known as the SAVE Act — was reintroduced by Republicans ahead of 2026’s midterms in a continued effort to undermine American voters.  The House has passed the bill. We need the Senate to block it. The bill's purpose requires all Americans to jump through hoops to prove citizenship when registering to vote. It requires presentation of paperwork many Americans do not have, such as a birth certificate with your current name on it, a passport, or a REAL ID. If passed, the bill will effectively disenfranchise nearly all married women and others whose birth certificates do not match the names on their drivers' licenses, REAL IDs, or passports. More info on what's wrong with this bill here. Script for calls or emails below.
My name is [Your Name], and I’m a constituent from [Your City, State] and a member of Indivisible Santa Fe. I’m [calling/writing] to urge Senator [Name] about two matters.

First, I urge the Senator to refuse to vote for any appropriations bill funding the Department of Homeland Security that fails to rein in ICE. The Senator must insist on getting ICE and CBP out of our communities, ending the blank check for their brutality, and creating clear guardrails to stop warrantless arrests, profiling, and enforcement at sensitive locations like schools or hospitals.

Second, I want Senator [Name] to vote against the SAVE Act, the MEGA Act, or any bill that attacks our voting rights. There are already strict laws in place preventing anyone who is not a citizen from voting in federal elections. These bills aren’t about election security—they are a blatant voter suppression tactic designed to make it harder for millions of eligible Americans to register and vote.

Thank you.

Stand with state and public employees

Recently the New Mexico Senate removed from the state budget the 1% cost of living increase for all state and public employees. The New Mexico House of Representatives now has a chance to restore this cost of living increase before it votes to approve the budget. Good reporting on the situation here. Please call your New Mexico Representative as soon as possible and urge them to restore the cost of living increase for New Mexico public employees to the FY2027 budget. Find your Representative's numbers here.