Colorado Democrats use a lot of energy and our tax dollars encouraging migrants to come here illegally and then remain as non-citizens, rather than promoting legal U.S. citizenship.
And here they go again.
A state Senate panel this week passed radical legislation to further restrict deportation activities of federal immigration officers in every Colorado city.
Plus, the bill kills current requirements that migrants be actively pursuing legal citizenship when applying for a driver’s license or in-state tuition to a public university, which is subsidized by taxpayers.
And shamefully, not a single reporter or Democrat voter is asking why the legislature is incentivizing non-citizens to retain their illegal status.
The pending bill is SB25-276, and It’s being hailed as a civil rights protection law for illegal aliens.
The legislation is sponsored by the usual radical suspects, including state Sens. Julie Gonzales of Denver and Mike Weissman of Aurora, and state Reps. Lorena Garcia of Adams County and Elizabeth Velasco of Glenwood Springs.
If enacted, it would shield criminals by further blocking federal law enforcement access to jails, hospitals, and schools to make arrests.
Democrats also included a scheme to allow non-citizen lawbreakers to take back their guilty pleas and vacate their convictions on non-felony crimes that might add cause for their deportation.
Those crimes include theft, disorderly conduct, check fraud, and criminal trespass. Plus, traffic violations that includes reckless driving, careless driving resulting in physical injury to another person, overtaking a school bus, drag racing, spilling loads on highways, and driving through construction zones over 25 mph over speed limit.