Congressman Gabe Evans Joins CNN, NewsNation to Discuss Boulder Attack

In case you missed it… Grandson of immigrants, former cop, and current Colorado Congressman Gabe Evans joined CNN and NewsNation this afternoon to discuss yesterday’s terror attack in Boulder. Congressman Evans’ message is simple: eliminate sanctuary state policies that kneecap law enforcement and condemn antisemitism at every opportunity.

 CNN 

➡️ I spent 22 years in the military and law enforcement, so I’ve done these investigations, I’ve been a part of the Global War on Terror, and unfortunately when we have sanctuary states, like Colorado, that prohibit state and local law enforcement from being able to work with their federal counterparts to be able to identify risky behavior – such as an illegal immigrant who’s overstayed two visas and attempting to buy a firearm, which is what happened in this case – we can’t put all the pieces of the puzzle together to be able to prevent things like this from happening.

➡️ We support our state and local law enforcement being able to work with the feds to prevent these things from happening in the first place. That is very, very difficult in sanctuary states like Colorado, like California, like many other blue states around the country where state and local law enforcement is not allowed to work with their federal counterparts.

NewsNation
 

➡️ Federal, state, and local law enforcement have to be able to work together and share information. Unfortunately, Colorado is a sanctuary state where our governor, just within the last month, signed into law another bill that fines state and local law enforcement $50,000 if they share information with Immigration and Customs. We know this guy overstayed two visas. We know this guy is illegally present in the United States. That makes him off limits for any information sharing between state and local law enforcement with their federal authors.

➡️ We’ve had a problem for the last four and a half years, ever since the previous administration threw open the borders and allowed people to flood into the country. We saw the numbers from ICE last summer: 667,000 individuals in the United States with criminal histories. Hundreds of terrorists — either gotaways or people on the terrorist watch list that had been released into the community. We’re cleaning up a problem right now that’s been four years in the making.