Well, good luck enforcing this, Champs!
Colorado legislature passes bill to allow lawsuits against ICE agents, other immigration officers
The state legislature passed a bill Thursday that would, if signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis, allow Colorado residents to sue federal immigration officers in state court over alleged constitutional rights violations.
Supporters say the measure, Senate Bill 26-005, would fill a gap in the law that largely does not include a pathway for challenging conduct by federal officials, including immigration authorities like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.
“We’re creating a circumstance where, if ICE is violating your constitutional rights by unlawfully searching you, seizing you, by conducting their jobs in a way where it looks more like police brutality than actual policing, that you have a cause of action to stand up for yourself in court,” bill sponsor state Rep. Javier Mabrey, D-Denver, said.
Lawsuits brought against immigration agents under the measure would have to be filed within two years of the alleged constitutional violation. The measure would take effect immediately, pending the governor’s signature.
So, what will happen will be a bunch of frivolous, nuisance lawsuits filed, especially by illegal aliens, for which nothing will happen because state law does not supplant federal law. We all know Polis will sign it, and then the DOJ will file a lawsuit within a week. And, Polis and the Democrats who passed this on party lines know this. This is what they are really looking to accomplish
But the bill was written to include state and local officials as well as federal ones. In response, local governments, law enforcement, district attorneys and Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, who is also running for governor, opposed the bill, saying it would open up state and local officials to a rash of lawsuits.
They want to make sure state, county, and local law enforcement do not work with federal immigration agents under threat of essentially having qualified immunity (which Polis and the elected officials and tons of bureaucrats have) removed so they can be sued. Seriously, why not just hand over the serious criminals who are illegal aliens? Why this unhinged need to protect them?
