Don’t Give Up on the Missing

Last week, a state task force formed in 2021 by New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s administration to explore solutions to the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and individuals was dissolved. In 2019, New Mexico House Bill 278 was passed, and in May of 2021, Governor Lujan Grishman signed Executive Order 2021-013, which established the first phase of the task force. The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and…