The Denver Post says immigration is front-and-center at the Colorado Capitol, and boy do our lawmakers love nothing more than a spotlight and a press release. This week in Denver, the Senate passed a resolution supporting immigrants and “transparency” in federal immigration enforcement, and committees are teeing up more bills.
They are also taking up a bill to let people sue federal officers during immigration enforcement, talking about expanding the red flag law, and doing the usual budget and ethics committee churn. In other words: plenty of microphones, not enough math.
The Bullet Point Brief
- The Senate passed a resolution supporting immigrants and transparency in federal immigration enforcement.
- Lawmakers planned to unveil a slate of proposals billed as protecting immigrants’ rights.
- The Senate Judiciary Committee scheduled a first hearing on Senate Bill 5 to allow lawsuits against federal officers tied to immigration enforcement.
- Senate Bill 4 would expand who can file extreme risk protection orders to additional groups and institutions.
- The Joint Budget Committee set public testimony on budget requests, and the House Ethics committee planned to discuss a complaint involving two state representatives.
My Bottom Line
Here is the Colorado Legislature doing what the Colorado Legislature does best: virtue signal to its donor base. It’s the easiest lift in government. You don’t have to fix anything, you just have to sound nice while the bill comes due somewhere else.
Meanwhile, normie Coloradans are trying to figure out how they can continue to afford to live here. Not how to “message” about problems. Not how to grandstand. How to pay rent, buy groceries, and keep the truck running.
Let’s not pretend a resolution is governance. It’s a mood ring with letterhead, and a committee wrote it. You can tell.
If you can’t control federal immigration policy, you can still pick a fight with it and call that progress.
Want to protect rights? Great. Do it with clear standards, real oversight, and a price tag attached, not by turning Colorado into a legal sandbox where taxpayers fund the drama and nobody owns the outcome.
Source: The Denver Post
