NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – On November 1, nearly 460,000 New Mexicans who rely on SNAP benefits woke up with no money on their cards. Food banks across the country, and in Albuquerque, were flooded with long lines of people waiting for their next meals.

Several local food banks have been preparing for this, including the Storehouse Food Pantry in downtown. They had long lines of people out the door, and some were there because of that lapse in their SNAP benefits. "Imagine every single day you have to question, 'Oh are you gonna eat breakfast, are you gonna eat lunch, are you gonna eat dinner,' because you can only do one of them," said 22-year-old Diana Mohamdien, a SNAP recipient.

Mohamdien is disabled and lives her life in a wheelchair. She is one of the thousands of New Mexicans who didn't

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