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June 27, 2014 10:53 AM UTC

Cory Gardner on Immigration: What Do You Want To Hear?

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Rep. Cory Gardner (R).
Rep. Cory Gardner (R).

CBS4 reports on fascinating developments yesterday from a rally inside Rep. Cory Gardner's Greeley offices:

Dozens of immigration reform protesters packed Rep. Cory Gardner’s office calling for changes. They even brought a mariachi band.

“We have our rights. This is a public office. We’re taxpayers. We’re refusing to leave, everyone come in,” chanted the protesters…

They refused to leave until the lawmaker agreed to take action on long-debated measures that could improve the status of immigrants living in Colorado and throughout the U.S.

Here's more from the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition Action Fund:

As Rep. Cory Gardner has now officially won the Republican nomination for Senate in Colorado, he will have to answer across the state for his votes to deport DREAMers and his blocking the best chance in decades to pass immigration reform. This week marks the one-year anniversary of the Senate passage of a bipartisan immigration bill, one that Gardner would have voted against if he had been a Senator at that time. As a House member, Gardner has been a major force in the Republican caucus that has failed to pass a common sense solution to fix the broken immigration system this year.

After a protest at his office in early June, Rep. Gardner told the AP he supports citizenship for military service, but reform supporters aren’t satisfied. Leaders from his district submitted a letter to Gardner’s office on June 11, asking him to put articulate a solution for the 11 million immigrants currently in the US, but Gardner has been silent.

So yesterday, they showed up to "occupy" Gardner's office. And that's where it gets interesting, as CBS4's report continues:

Gardner released this statement: “I remain supportive of fixing our broken immigration system. I’ve met with many groups who support immigration reform, and each conversation I have paints a more vivid picture of just how significant of an impact modernizing our immigration policy would have on families and businesses across Colorado. I will continue my efforts to convince Speaker Boehner and the rest of the House to bring immigration reform legislation to the floor. It’s far too important of an issue for Colorado not to.”

Gardner "remains supportive" of immigration reform? Understand–this is the same Cory Gardner who helped kill the Senate's bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform bill the moment it arrived in the House. The same Cory Gardner who opposed the DREAM Act, who voted to deport DREAMer students, and who even objected to the Justice Department's lawsuit against Arizona over their much-reviled SB-1070 anti-immigrant law:

"The solution to the problem isn't for the Justice Department to file a taxpayer-funded lawsuit against the Governor of Arizona for responding to a law enforcement crisis. It isn't giving amnesty to the 12-20 million illegal immigrants in this country, or giving those people benefits that will only encourage more illegal immigration. The time has come to enforce the rule of law and end illegal immigration."

Folks, is there anyone out there who seriously believes Gardner has been trying to "convince" Speaker John Boehner to take up immigration reform in the House? Because if there are, we'd like to sell you a bridge, a swamp, whatever. For anyone who knows what Gardner's actual record is on this issue, his statement to these immigration reform protesters is nothing short of preposterous.

That said, Gardner's audacious willingness to say anything to anyone is really beginning to amaze us. If it wasn't for our lazy local media, we'd be 100% certain he was headed for epic disaster. But in order for voters to be outraged, they need to understand how outrageous this all really is.

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22 thoughts on “Cory Gardner on Immigration: What Do You Want To Hear?”

    1. Is it too much to ask of the reporter to request from the Congressman evidence to support his contention that he has tried to convince Speaker Boehner and the GOP caucus "to bring immigration reform legislation to the floor"?

      Buehler?  Buehler?

  2. We need border security. Period.

    U.S. Customs and Border Patrol provided Breitbart Texas with a statement that said, "At approximately 5:45 a.m. Thursday morning, a Mexican law enforcement helicopter crossed approximately 100 yards north into Arizona nearly 8 miles southwest of the Village of San Miguel on the Tohono O'odham Indian Nation while on a law enforcement operation near the border. Two shots were fired from the helicopter but no injuries or damage to U.S. property were reported. The incident is currently under investigation."

    http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/06/27/Mexican-Military-Helicopter-Enters-US-Shoots-at-Border-Patrol-Agents

    1. How much are you willing to spend?  Let's see, an agent every 50 yards for 2,000 miles, that's 70,000 FTEs, plus equipment.  Wanna cut oil company subsidies?  That'll pay for it.

      Or maybe we can hire Boeing or Lockheed to build something high-tech that won't work.

          2. Speaking of spelling, this just in from Gardner's weekly newsletter.

            I want to thank my Democrat colleagues Congressman Gene Green, from Texas, and Congressman Tim Ryan, from Ohio, for working with me to ensure that this legislation would receive strong bipartisan support.

            Even though they're sharing lint in the Koch pocket, he can't get it right.

    2. If that's how you really feel, then aren't you sorry you didn't back Tanc in the primary?  You and Honey Badger's other backers could have given him the nomination over BWB.

  4. "Folks, is there anyone out there who seriously believes Gardner has been trying to "convince" Speaker John Boehner to take up immigration reform in the House?"

    Maybe Modster?

    1. I think Gardner will be trying to convince Boehner right after Udall finds that $2,500 per year savings in health care costs Obama has been promising.

      1. Well, we know the first part of your statement is a lie since Gardner wouldn't think of actually helping pass immigration reform, but here is the answer to your second part — math really isn't your strong suit, is it?

        In 2007, Obama asserted that his health-care reform plan would save $2,500 per family relative to the trends at the time. The criticism was harsh; I know because I helped the then-senator make this forecast. Yet events have shown him to be right. Between early 2009 and now, the Office of the Actuaries at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has lowered its forecast of medical spending in 2016 by 1 percentage point of GDP. In dollar terms, this is $2,500 for a family of four.

        http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-health-care-laws-success-story-slowing-down-medical-costs/2013/11/08/e08cc52a-47c1-11e3-b6f8-3782ff6cb769_story.html
         

              1. Thanks!  It was the second link in a single google query.  Honestly, I'd never even heard that talking point before this afternoon, and in just a couple of minutes had the response.

                Twits like AC still rely on ignorance and naivete to win arguments.  Not a lot of that around here 🙂

  6. Bob Beauprez facing the wrong end of the horse is truly priceless, but this picture of Cory Gardner that keeps being used on every Gardner post (including this one) is kind of meh–I don't see what's the big deal. 
     

    1. It would help if they could include the context around the heavily-cropped photo of Cory on board the "Good Life" at the big spenders retreat:

      http://coloradopols.com/diary/57084/tell-cory-gardner-to-disclose-good-life-special-interest-ties

      Gardner even served as a “guest bartender” at a “happy hour” that required a $10,000 donation just to get in. – See more at: http://coloradopols.com/diary/57084/tell-cory-gardner-to-disclose-good-life-special-interest-ties#sthash.ryKXX3lK.dpuf

  7. There were some great photos of the "Occupy Gardner's Office" in Greeley last Friday, from CBS Local. The mariachi band:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    And the video from CBS4:

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