Welker to travel to Mexico line
A contingent of Colorado lawmakers plans a fact-finding tour in Arizona next week for a firsthand look at the impact of illegal immigration.
“The cost of illegal immigration to Coloradans is enormous,” said Rep. Jim Welker, a Loveland Republican who’s one of at least three Colorado GOP House members making the trip.
“We cannot stand by and watch the pocketbooks of Colorado taxpayers and law-abiding immigrants drain while they carry the increasing burden of supporting illegal aliens,” Welker said in a Wednesday statement.
“The pressure on our schools, our prisons, our health care system and other taxpayer-funded services is too great,” Welker added. “It is unfair to our citizens and it is unfair to the hard-working immigrants who are playing by the rules.”
Welker said in an interview that he, Colorado Springs Rep. David Schultheis, and Arvada Rep. Bill Crane are scheduled to meet Monday with several Arizona lawmakers to learn how that state’s legislature is dealing with problems associated with illegal immigration.
On Tuesday and again on Wednesday, the Colorado lawmakers’ tentative schedule is to include riding along with groups such as the Minutemen, a volunteer organization that has been conducting its own patrols of the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona and other Southwestern states.
Welker noted that the governors of Arizona and New Mexico, both Democrats, declared states of emergency earlier this year because of illegal-immigration problems there.
Welker predicted there will be several immigration-themed bills introduced in the Colorado Legislature next year — and said he may sponsor one of his own — because “it’s become such a big issue.”
He said he hopes to return from Arizona with information that will help him make Coloradans more aware of the extent of the illegal-immigration problem and will look for areas where sates can cooperate to find solutions.
“It’s more of a federal issue, but if affects the state budget,” Welker said, adding that Colorado also needs to send a message to Congress that “something must be done.”
Welker said he, Schultheis and Crane are all members of the Republican Study Committee of Colorado, an organization that several GOP lawmakers formed earlier this year.
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