A new court filing alleges a similar scene has played out in recent months at probation offices in Santa Fe and Albuquerque: As probationers have shown up to meet with an officer or sign paperwork, they instead have been whisked away by federal agents to immigration detention facilities or even deported.

The routine practice among New Mexico Corrections Department staff of collaborating with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents has run afoul of a new law prohibiting state employees from sharing sensitive personal information, the State Ethics Commission says in the complaint.

The commission filed the complaint in the state's First Judicial District Court against Corrections Secretary Alisha Tafoya Lucero, seeking a declaratory judgment that federal laws don't prohibit the c

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