Democrat Congressman: ‘Someday, There Might be More People Here Illegally Than Legally’

(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Jared Polis (D.-Colo.) took to the House floor yesterday and called for “celebrating” President Barack Obama’s unilateral actions allowing illegal aliens to stay in the United States and also to decry that none of the bills being brought up in the House that day were about immigration reform.

Polis said that without immigration reform, America should expect more illegal aliens.

“Someday,” he said, “there might be more people here illegally than there are here legally.”

Here is an excerpt from Rep. Polis’s speech:

“We should be celebrating today the start of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals expansion and the Deferred Action for Parents of American Citizens program that President Obama launched in light of the continued failure of this Congress to finally fix our broken immigration system. This Congress hasn’t brought forth a single immigration bill, not secured our border, not ensured that employers follow our law and only employ legal American workers; but, rather, at every opportunity, it has sought to thwart the executive branch, doing what they can with the powers they have under our U.S. Constitution to restore the rule of law without the help of this body. …

“I hope that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program’s expansion, known as DACA—already a great success with additional success along the way with the new expansion—and the Deferred Action for Parents of American Citizens program, or DAPA, are soon unclogged by the courts to at least reduce the size of this sometimes insurmountable problem that Congress continues to refuse to tackle. That is the alternative.

“If Congress continues to bring up three bills every week and if none of them are about border security and none of them are about immigration, do you know what? Instead of there being 10 million people here illegally, there are going to be 15 or 20 million here 10 years. That is exactly where this Republican Congress is leading us—towards an America where, someday, there might be more people here illegally than there are here legally. Think about that, Mr. Speaker."

Rep. Polis's speech was printed in the Congressional Record.

Via: CNS News

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ObamaCare too costly for the rich Colorado residents, Dem congressman says

One of President Obama’s most ardent liberal supporters has defected from ObamaCare.

Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, told a Colorado health policy think tank that ObamaCare premiums will be too expensive for some of the wealthiest addresses in America – ski resorts like Breckenridge and Keystone. 

He says he’s asking the feds to let them sit out the president’s national health system.

“We will be encouraging a waiver,” Polis told Health Policy Solutions in a story that ran today. “It will be difficult for Summit County residents to become insured. For the vast majority, it’s too high a price to pay.”

The resorts are in Summit County and Aspen is in a neighboring county, which Polis also represents. He has consistently voted in favor of ObamaCare.

Polis also wrote to Colorado’s insurance commissioner asking why an average 40-year-old mountaintop resident would have to fork over $427.80 a month while counterparts in Denver would pay $296.41 for the same plan.

Via: Fox News

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Jared Polis says constituents opting out of ‘energy economy’

Colorado Democratic Rep. Jared Polis said that his constituents “would be happy to not be a hub of the energy economy” in comments to a commerce association in Denver Wednesday.

He was referring to fracking, according to the Denver Business Journal, against which he has waged a high profile and very personal battle lately.

“My folks are opting out,” the newspaper quotes him as saying, referring to bans against the practice that are either in place or being considered for parts of his district. “They don’t want a part of what may well be popular in the 3rd or the 4th [congressional districts].

Polis recently filed a complaint against an oil and gas company that had begun fracking near his “weekend getaway” in Weld County, claiming that the drilling had caused “mental suffering, annoyance and the loss of use and enjoyment” of his property. He told a Boulder newspaper that he felt like a “refugee” because of it.

The company was hit with a $26,000 fine, but Polis insisted that he didn’t enjoy special treatment from state regulators because he’s a wealthy congressman. In fact, he argued that the fine wasn’t steep enough.

At Wednesday’s Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry luncheon, Polis was the only member of the congressional delegation who voiced his opposition to fracking. Even Democrats Ed Perlmutter and Dianna DeGette said they were O.K. with the practice as long as it’s done in an environmentally sensitive way, the Journalreported.

On Twitter later, Polis said he likes the cash oil and gas operations bring to his district — as long as those operations are “#frackfree.”

“[W]e would love for those making money from oil & gas to live in pristine &#frackfree Boulder County,” he wrote.

Via: Daily Caller

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