Martin Zamora

A conservative Hispano leader, he is focused on defending New Mexico’s agricultural heritage, protecting water rights, creating high-paying jobs in rural communities, and cracking down on crime and drug trafficking. He believes New Mexico has seen enough political devastation—and it’s time for leaders who will stand up for our way of life.

In Congress, I will fight to protect our agricultural heritage by defending private property rights, reducing burdensome federal regulations, and ensuring our producers have access to the tools they need to thrive.

Create rural opportunity zones with tax incentives for small business development

Expand broadband and infrastructure to connect rural towns with 21st-century markets

New Mexicans deserve good-paying jobs and the opportunity to build a better future for their families. I will champion pro-growth policies that lower taxes, cut red tape, and support small businesses—the true job creators in our economy.

Invest in vocational education, trades, and apprenticeship programs tied to local needs

Support economic development that enhances—not erodes—traditional rural values and culture

Our communities are being devastated by crime and the spread of deadly drugs like fentanyl. As your congressman, I will stand with law enforcement and fight to restore law and order.

New Mexicans deserve good-paying jobs and the opportunity to build a better future for their families. I will champion pro-growth policies that lower taxes, cut red tape, and support small businesses—the true job creators in our economy. We must unleash the full potential of our energy, manufacturing, and agricultural sectors, and ensure that workforce training and education align with the demands of today’s economy. Prosperity starts when government gets out of the way and lets American enterprise flourish.

Agriculture and Water Rights In Congress, I will fight to protect our agricultural heritage by defending private property rights, reducing burdensome federal regulations, and ensuring our producers have access to the tools they need to thrive. Learn More

Agriculture and Water Rights

Defend private-property, grazing, and land-use rights for New Mexico farmers and ranchers while reducing federal regulatory burdens.

• Consolidate overlapping property-rights and agricultural red-tape commitments without adopting inflammatory labels.

Defend traditional New Mexico water rights, oppose federal attempts to override state water compacts, and support state-led water solutions shaped by local input.

• Preserve the state-compact and local-input mechanisms.

Support voluntary water-conservation measures and infrastructure investment in rural irrigation systems.

• Preserve both the voluntary conservation standard and infrastructure mechanism.

Expand access to federal farm-support programs for New Mexico agricultural producers.

• Preserve the federal-program access commitment without inventing a benefit level.

Create rural opportunity zones offering tax incentives for small-business development.

• Preserve the geographic and tax-incentive mechanism.

Expand broadband and infrastructure connecting rural communities to modern markets.

• Preserve both infrastructure categories without inventing funding levels.

Promote energy-sector jobs in oil, natural gas, solar power, and nuclear power.

• Preserve the four named energy sectors.

Reduce unnecessary licensing and regulatory requirements affecting rural entrepreneurs.

• Preserve the licensing and regulatory mechanisms while attributing the necessity judgment.

Invest in vocational education, skilled-trade training, and apprenticeship programs aligned with local workforce needs.

• Preserve the three training mechanisms and local alignment.

Support economic development that preserves traditional rural culture and values.

• Preserve the campaign's broad development standard without inventing a land-use rule.

Designate fentanyl trafficking as a national emergency and treat drug-cartel activity as terrorism.

• Preserve both proposed federal designations without adopting causal rhetoric.

Increase federal penalties for violent offenders and drug traffickers.

• Preserve the penalty direction and offense categories without inventing sentence lengths.

Provide federal funding for rural law-enforcement recruitment and training.

• Preserve the funding mechanism and two specified uses.

Oppose reductions described by the campaign as defunding police and support community-based crime-prevention programs.

• Attribute the defunding characterization and preserve the prevention mechanism.

Require cooperation among federal, state, and tribal agencies to combat cross-border crime.

• Preserve all three government levels and the coordination mandate.

Complete the southern border wall and add surveillance technology and personnel where needed.

• Preserve the three explicit border mechanisms without adopting crisis rhetoric.

Reinstate Title 42 and the Remain in Mexico policy.

• Preserve both named policies without expanding their legal scope.

Increase Border Patrol resources and surveillance technology along rural border corridors.

• Preserve the agency, resource, technology, and geographic scope.

Calls for a crackdown on sanctuary policies he says protect criminal unauthorized immigrants; the source does not specify a conviction-based enforcement restriction.

Support cooperation with sheriffs and local law-enforcement agencies in border communities.

• Preserve the local cooperation mechanism and geographic scope.

End catch-and-release and require detention for people who cross the border illegally.

• Preserve the detention proposal without adding removal procedures.