Boyles host doesn’t question Beauprez on why he wants to ban child migrants from Colorado
As reported by The Denver Post Wedneday, gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez told KNUS-radio yapper Peter Boyles that he would not allow young immigrants from poverty-stricken Central American countries to be housed anywhere in Colorado while they await deportation decisions.
But Beauprez’s explanation for his young-migrant ban, which wasn’t picked up by any news outlet that I can find, is just as newsworthy as his position itself:
BOYLES (Aug 27 at 5 minutes): We know that Hickenlooper has welcomed these illegal children who have come into this country. Would you allow Colorado to continue to receive these, quote, undocumented whatever-they-are, fill-in-the-bland, no matter how old they are or how young they are. Would you stop that?
BEAUPREZ: They’ve got to stay on the border, Pete. They shouldn’t even be allowed in the border, but to bring them this far inland makes it that much more difficult to send them back home.
BOYLES: Thank you!
BEAUPREZ: Yep. Done.
This far inland? I listened three times to make sure he said it. He did. Then I checked to see if these children ride on horseback to their deportation hearings, making it difficult to send them home from a inland location. They don’t. They ride in modern planes and buses, some of which have been blocked by anti-immigrant protesters.
Transportation logistics are irrelevant to Boyles’ agenda of ridding Colorado of immigrants, no matter how small or vulnerable. Or no matter the horror they’ve fled. He wants them out, and he’s not scared to say that housing and caring for undocumented children isn’t our job.
Yet Boyles didn’t ask Beauprez for a real reason for banning child migrants from Colorado.
So we’re left to speculate that Beauprez’s thinking is probably along the lines of, someone else will be compassionate toward them, and it’s messy for Colorado to chip in. And that’s a charitable interpretation.