New Mexico Code § 13-9-4

Prohibiting public bodies from entering into agreements to deputize officers, employees or agents to perform functions of
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deputize officers, employees or agents to perform functions of
immigration officers.
A. A public body shall not enter into, extend, renew or otherwise agree to be a party
to an agreement to investigate, apprehend, detain or transport individuals pursuant to 8
U.S.C. Section 1357(g) or 8 C.F.R. Section 287.7.
B. A public body shall not agree to be a party to an agreement that deputizes
officers, employees or agents of the public body to perform a function of an immigration
officer in relation to the investigation, apprehension, detention or transportation of
noncitizens in the United States or the removal of noncitizens from the United States.
C. A public body that is a party to an existing agreement to investigate, apprehend,
detain or transport individuals pursuant to 8 U.S.C. Section 1357(g) or 8 C.F.R. Section
287.7 shall, upon the effective date of the Immigrant Safety Act, terminate the
agreement upon the earliest date permissible under the terms of the agreement. Where
the termination clause of the agreement permits the public body to invoke exigent
circumstances involving public safety, the public body shall do so.
History: Laws 2026, ch. 5, § 4.

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