Vasquez blasts $1.6B for NM Bootheel border wall

Vasquez blasts $1.6B for NM Bootheel border wall

The federal Department of Homeland Security intends to build a border wall into New Mexico’s Bootheel including up to Border monument 48, pictured above. U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez (D-NM) decried the wall in a remote area as a waste of money. (Courtesy U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez’s office)U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez, a Democrat representing the state’s 2nd Congressional District in the southern part of New Mexico, on Wednesday called upon the U.S. Department …