Hey DC! Pass Senate Bill 1151 Let Self-Deportation Do the Heavy Lifting

With President Trump back in the White House, slamming the gates shut on the endless parade of uninvited guests, you'd think we'd be seeing fewer illegal aliens standing in front of Home Depot in the mornings. But no, we're still knee-deep in the aftermath of Joe Biden's four-year fiesta of open borders. The era where "border security" meant Democrat photo ops pretending to care while millions waltzed in, courtesy of catch-and-release on steroids and progressive-funded NGO’s. Fentanyl flooding our streets, gangs setting up shop in Aurora, and our workforce bloated with unauthorized labor, undercutting every honest Coloradan. Trump has closed the spigot, but the floodwaters are not receding. Enter Senate Bill 1151, the Accountability Through Electronic Verification Act. This isn't just a bill; it's the mop we need to clean up Biden's mess.

Senate Bill 1151, championed by solid DC Republicans like Chuck Grassley, Tommy Tuberville, Mike Lee, and Ted Cruz, targets the root of the rot: jobs. It mandates E-Verify for every business in America, no ifs, ands, or buts. One year post-enactment, every employer, from ski resorts in Vail to feedlots in Weld County, must verify new hires. Federal contractors and critical infrastructure comply immediately! E-Verify cross-references Social Security and DHS data to spot fakes, and this bill makes it permanent, no more expiration dates. Ignore the law if passed, enjoy civil fines up to $25,000 per offence, debarment from government contracts, and criminal penalties that could land you behind bars for a decade. Keep an unauthorized worker after being flagged? Bad news, fire them, report to ICE, or face the music. Baked into the bill are programs to help small rural areas so they can get on board without a headache.

But here's why this bill is genius in the Trump era: it's not about chasing down every last illegal immigrant through ICE and Border Patrol. No, S.1151 starves the beast by yanking the job magnet. With borders sealed under Trump, the influx has slowed to a trickle, but we're stuck with Biden's legacy, estimates of 10-20 as high as 40-60 million unauthorized illegals already here, many lured by easy employment during his open-door debacle. Make E-Verify compulsory, and poof: self-deportation kicks in. No jobs mean no reason to stick around. They'll pack up and head home on their own dime, easing the burden on our overworked ICE agents and Border Patrol heroes. These folks have been stretched thin mopping up this mess; this bill bolsters them by reducing the masses, letting them focus on cartel thugs, traffickers, and serious threats. In Colorado, where our economy hinges on ag, energy, and tourism, this means reclaiming wages for locals US citizens, not subsidizing exploitation.

Oh, but cue the wailing from the anti-E-Verify brigade, the same bleeding hearts and corporate cronies who enabled Biden's illegal immigration boondoggle. These sanctimonious types, sobbing about "discrimination" and "business burdens," as if verifying legal status is akin to waterboarding. Please. If you're against mandatory checks, you're essentially a cheerleader for the chaos, happy to let wages plummet while virtue-signaling from your gated communities. Liberals like the ACLU, whining about privacy? Hilarious, coming from folks who ignore the real victims: Americans whose identities get stolen by fraudsters gaming the system. And don't get me started on the elected officials fighting this tooth and nail, they're not pro-immigrant; they're pro-profit at any cost for their overlords, even if it means turning Colorado into a low-wage dystopia. These hypocrites cheered amnesty, pretending mass migration doesn't overwhelm our schools or hospitals. Now, with Trump restoring order, they're scrambling to protect their cheap labor pipeline. Newsflash, you enablers: Opposing S.1151 isn't compassionate; it's complicit in the aftermath, sacrificing American jobs for your feel-good farce.

I always want to give credit where credit is due, thanks to Congressman Gabe Evans of CD8 for inspiring this article with his Dignity Act. And Douglas County CD4 representative, Lauren Boebert, quote, “Build the wall, deport them ALL!”