DHS agrees to delay REAL ID enforcement if New Mexico ensures compliance this year

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) — The Department of Homeland Security’s Deputy Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas pledged to congressional leaders that DHS would delay enforcement of the READ ID Act if New Mexico takes steps before Jan. 10 to prove the governor and legislators are committed to complying with the law this year.
In a news release Wednesday, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and Representatives Ben Ray Luján and Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that the U.S. Department of