Jobs, not Services Lure Illegal Immigrants; Dems Draw Line Appropriately
In response to emails suggesting that both Republicans and Democrats are playing politics with illegal immigration, I’d like to direct you to Bill Johnson’s column in the Rocky Mountain News. In it, he points to political posturing at the national level and to Gov Owens’ desire “to restore to the ballot a poorly worded, overreaching and plain bad initiative the state Supreme Court tossed in the garbage for precisely those reasons.”
Andrew Romanoff, the House speaker and a Democrat, got it correct. If Bill Owens believes illegals are receiving services in excess of what the federal government mandates, he is honor-bound to call his Cabinet on the carpet and demand to know which agency is not doing its job.Under the Democrats’ call for a special session, they could give consideration to a Romanoff proposal that I think would immediately move Colorado off this issue: A statute requiring that employers verify a worker’s immigration status and employment eligibility.
Johnson said it better than I did, but the bottom line is that Democrats continue to craft solutions while Republicans play politics with our money; at $15,000 for each day of the special session, that’s going to be one expensive hobby.
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