{"id":21535,"date":"2019-05-30T18:39:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T22:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=21535"},"modified":"2019-05-30T18:39:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T22:39:24","slug":"colorado-governor-missed-the-memo-on-the-border-crisis-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/05\/30\/colorado-governor-missed-the-memo-on-the-border-crisis-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Governor Missed the Memo on the Border Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D) was recently blindsided by a caravan<\/a> full of illegal aliens dropped in his backyard, courtesy of his own fellow Democrat freshman governor, Michele Lujan Grisham of New Mexico. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The caravan,\nwhich included 55 aliens from Central America\u2019s violent Northern Triangle, was organized\nand paid for by Gov. Lujan Grisham\u2019s office using taxpayer funds from her state\u2019s\nDepartment of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (which is supposed to help\npay for natural disasters). The move was authorized by Grisham in response to\nthe ongoing crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shockingly, Gov. Lujan Grisham apparently didn\u2019t even bother to tell Gov. Polis or anyone else in Colorado\u2019s state government about her drop-off operation until after the caravan arrived at a local non-profit in Denver (which is a sanctuary city<\/a>).\u00a0 She claimed that the reason she didn\u2019t notify Gov. Polis was that the decision was made after-hours and that notice was not necessary because the transfer wasn\u2019t an \u201cofficial\u201d state operation.

However, Gov. Lujan Grisham\u2019s actions don\u2019t appear to align with her statements. She actually went around Gov. Polis and informed Denver Mayor Michael Hancock (D) about the caravan a full day before<\/a> she authorized it. Adding fuel to the fire, the mayor also chose to keep Gov. Polis in the dark. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\naddition to not informing Gov. Polis about the caravan, Mayor Hancock used the\ndrop-off operation as an opportunity to politicize the immigration issue,\npromising to take in even more caravans from distressed states. \u201cDenver will\nalways be a welcoming place for people seeking refuge,\u201d Hancock said. \u201cI am\nproud of our community for proactively stepping in to provide support in\nuniting these individuals with their family and friends. They deserve our\ncompassion, not condemnation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gov. Polis doesn\u2019t seem to have a problem with New Mexico violating Colorado\u2019s state lines or with his own local jurisdictions keeping him out of the loop. He just shrugged his shoulders at the problem, doubled down on his support for illegal aliens, and tried to pin the blame on President Trump. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe governor believes our immigrant community enriches the culture of our state,\u201d a spokesperson for Gov. Polis wrote<\/a> in a statement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is another example of just how broken our country\u2019s immigration system is and how desperately we need reform and leadership from the Trump administration on this issue,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New Mexico caravan of aliens entering Colorado is only the beginning. Polis is now reportedly working with Lujan Grisham to bring hundreds more illegal aliens to Colorado each week. He also approved a sanctuary law<\/a> on May 28 that will act as a magnet for more illegal immigration.

But Polis\u2019s actions may backfire on him. At least three communities in Arizona and New Mexico have already declared states of emergency<\/a> in response to the border crisis, while several others have refused<\/a> to take in illegal aliens, calling the influx \u201cirresponsible\u201d and \u201cburdensome.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Las Cruces, which is only a hundred miles away from the U.S.-Mexico border, is already beyond its capacity to take in more illegal aliens after absorbing more than 6,000<\/a> in the past two months alone, representing an unplanned 6% increase in its population. Shockingly, this is only a small fraction of the 150,000<\/a> migrants estimated to have been released since December and dispersed around the country.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Governor\nLujan Grisham clearly can no longer support all of the illegal aliens pouring\ninto her state so she\u2019s resorted to exporting them to New Mexico\u2019s neighbors.\nThat should put up a huge red flag for Gov. Polis. Instead of pandering to the\nopen-borders lobby, he should do the right thing: put his state\u2019s citizens\nfirst, reject any more of Lujan Grisham\u2019s drop-and-run operation immediately\nand do whatever he can close the state\u2019s borders to illegal immigration.\nOtherwise, he could easily find Colorado facing the same problems as New\nMexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D) was recently blindsided by a caravan full of illegal aliens dropped in his backyard, courtesy of his own fellow Democrat freshman governor, Michele Lujan Grisham of New Mexico. The caravan, which included 55 aliens from Central America\u2019s violent Northern Triangle, was organized and paid for by Gov. Lujan Grisham\u2019s office<\/p>\n

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