Sound Off: Feb. 2

Las Cruces Sun-News
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EDUCATION: Let's see, New Mexico had an 8 percent increase in graduation from 2011 to 2016. Las Cruces Public Schools had a 5.5 percent increase in just one year, 2015 to 2016. Maybe Hanna Skandera and all the testing are good things after all.

IMMIGRATION ORDER: I find it fascinating that there are no people banned from countries that Donald does business with. So about mixing business and government, yeah we do have conflicts, and we will continue to have conflicts of interest as long as he is in the White House.

IMMIGRATION ORDER: Be alert, hold-out sanctuary cities will lose federal funds, causing financial disarray. Police services will be suspended and Trump will be enabled to introduce federal troops.

GOODMAN COLUMN: As a DASO employee, I couldn't agree more with Peter Goodman's article about Undersheriff Ken Roberts. The man is unqualified and vindictive.

TRUMP SUPPORT: In all this controversy about who had the biggest audience on Inauguration Day or who got the most popular votes, one important factor has been overlooked and that's Trump supporters having to go to work and could not be at the inauguration or at the polls.

NEW MEXICO: Do you think our status as last in child care and poverty could have anything to do with the Democrats wanting to make this a sanctuary state, more poor illegals?

MEMORIAL: Regarding the memorial at Triviz and Spruce that was removed by the city. Why did they remove that? It's OK for all the yard sale signs to stay out? I think those yard sales signs are more of a hazard than anything. Do something about that; let the memorial be, poor guy.

ABORTION: It's time for pro-lifers to financially commit to ensure that unwanted children born into poverty and the disabled because of drug use aren't condemned to a life of suffering.

IMMIGRATION ORDER: Trump's ban on Muslims doesn't include Saudi Arabia, where 15 of the 9/11 terrorists came from. Pakistan, where the San Bernardino terrorists came from; the Boston bombers who were from Russia. Trump has businesses in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey and United Arab Emirates, none of which were on the ban.

GOODMAN COLUMN: Compliments to Peter Goodman on his article about the sheriff's office. Hopefully Kiki Vigil will take heed and realize that maybe he is not as popular as the thinks he is. I personally have heard a lot of these comments and have a lot of friends in DASO. I think they need to look at it.

ABORTION: One abortion clinic down, and now the Texas abortion clinics want to move into New Mexico. It's time for our governor to stop them!

VA: With the much needed VA facility being built on Del Rey at Mars, those who live in the Four Hills area and other neighborhoods along Del Rey will have even more difficulty getting onto Del Rey than we do now. Is a traffic light part of the plan?

GOODMAN COLUMN: Shame on you, Peter Goodman, for listening to a disgruntled former undersheriff who undermined the current sheriff as well as former Sheriff Garrison. He continues to call any DASO staff who will listen to cause further division. I guess he got your ear. By the way former Undersheriff Lerma, time to let go and move on.

ATTORNEY GENERAL: Question the news media needs to ask of U.S. attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions: would you make a judgment similar to acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who was fired for the following the Constitution, or would you follow the president's edict?

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