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Gabe Evans: “We don't need to be defunding ICE. We don't need to be…”

Featuring: Gabe Evans, Republican | U.S. Representative, Colorado's 8th Congressional District

Republican Rumble 2 - June 1, 2024 - High Noon

Published June 2, 2024 | Video Starts at 43:43

Those are federal law enforcement agencies. Those are the federal law enforcement agencies that are tasked with securing our southern border. So no, We don't need to be defunding ICE. We don't need to be defunding Customs and Border Patrol. I was a police officer for 10 years and so I saw the crime and the violence that international criminal organizations and cartels are bringing to our state, that are bringing to our community because of the wide open southern border. (43:43–43:49)

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Asserts opposition to defunding ICE and Border Patrol.

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“I was home schooled all 12 years.”
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“12 years U.S. army.”
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“I'm a current Republican state representative.”
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“I was a cop for 10 years.”
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“The information [about Hunter Biden's laptop] being kept away from the voters prior to the election was an act of interference in that…”
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“We need to reinstitute things like remain in Mexico.”
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“We need to build more border wall.”
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“The leftists that are in control of our country and our state are doing things to handcuff the hands of law enforcement.”
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“In Colorado, they've actually prohibited law enforcement from even being able to interact with their federal counterparts.”
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“Because of leftists defund the police policies, and because of leftist open border and sanctuary city and state policies, law enforcement at…”
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“We need to make sure that we're streamlining that process so that the farmers in my district are able to be able to go out and have the…”
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“Denver has spent over $200 million supporting [illegal immigrants].”
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“States like Colorado go rogue and say that our local law enforcement cannot work with existing federal entities.”
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“We need to go after the sanctuary city and state policies that are handcuffing our law enforcement.”
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“National Guard mobilizations also cost a lot of money.”
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“The pro-life movement has been working for the last 50 years to have Roe overturned at the Supreme Court.”
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“This issue now firmly rests at the state level for the states to be able to figure out how best to protect all life born and unborn.”
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“I support those exceptions being in pro-life pieces of legislation like HR7, no taxpayer funding for abortion.”
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“I would support [the DACA policy] because they were kind of brought without their permission.”
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“Secure the border first and then after that we can figure out what to do.”
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“I think parents have the right to select the education that works for their kids.”
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“I have a strong stance against THC being available to minors.”
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“The 8th congressional district is a national battleground seat.”
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“We cannot abolish the intelligence agencies, especially when we have a wide open southern border over which we have dozens, if not hundreds…”
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“She has gone out of her way to sign onto letters that call for Joe Biden to defund Immigration and Customs, defund Border Patrol.”
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“We definitely don't need 70 or, excuse me, 87,000 new IRS agents so those guys can go.”
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“The left has weaponized those systems [FBI, DOJ].”
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“The leftists in Colorado have run four healthcare insurance companies out of the state of Colorado in the last two years.”
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“I had a 75% pass rate for my legislation.”
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“He's presided over a massive open borders crisis.”
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“We need to secure the border.”
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“Our district has the fourth highest energy producing county in the nation in it.”
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“It has the 8th highest agricultural producing county in the nation in it.”
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“We have the highest rate of restaurant inflation of anywhere in the nation right here in Colorado.”
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“We need to stop deficit spending money that we don't have.”
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“We need to re embrace free market principles.”
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“We have a spending problem first and foremost.”
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“I would cut 87,000 IRS agents.”
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“Cutting those 87,000 IRS agents would actually bring in less taxes, that it's a net adds to the deficit.”
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“Lower taxes and fees make Colorado a safe, affordable place to live again.”
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“Ensure that parents are in charge of their kids education.”
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“I am a retired colonel, a combat veteran.”
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“I am tempered in the battlefields of Afghanistan.”
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“I've passed over 40 bills, resolutions and tributes in the last five years in the State House.”
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“We've been in a minority and super minority, and somehow I get bipartisan support and I get those bills across the finish line.”
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“Boebert voted against water projects in Colorado, in Washington, D.C.”
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“Ken Buck did that. And what happened to him when he said he was going to drain the swamp? He didn't drain anything. He became the swamp.”
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“I did for 29 years in the United States army, five overseas tours, two combat tours.”
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“I would support renewing the Trump tax cuts.”
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“We have got to, first of all, lower regulation so water storage can happen more frequently.”
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“We have to also, as a federal government work on managing healthy forests.”
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“We are allowing over a million acre feet a year water leave over and above our compact on the South Platte.”
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“The reason we don't do that is simply because we have an Army Corps of Engineers that hold up those projects.”
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“I am a West Point graduate.”
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“I can't get behind a federal ban [on abortion].”
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“As a Purple Heart recipient, I'd asked to serve on the Armed Services Committee and Veterans Affairs.”
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“I would first and foremost ask to serve on the Ag Committee. Being born and bred in a farming family, I understand that industry very well.”
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“I'd also want to be appointed to the gas and oil. As my family is deeply involved with that industry.”
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