"'Instead of just saying 'no,'' Republicans need to 'actually come up with a solution,' Gardner said ..."

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COMMENTS:
*  So a terrible plan is better than no plan?  Don't see the logic in that....
*  He's right. I am baffled that the GOP would go this route after their disastrous Hispanic showing in the 2012 Presidential election. They seem to have amnesia. This ship has sailed and moving backwards is not the answer.
*  "Instead of just saying 'no,'" Republicans need to "actually come up with a solution".  And therein lies the problem. They have no idea where to go next, just stop the President!  Amazing!
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Freshman Senator Warns Fellow Republicans on Immigration
By Albert R. Hunt, January 15, 2015

Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado, a conservative Republican, warned his former colleagues in the House that they made a mistake by voting to roll back President Barack Obama's executive action shielding millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation.

"Instead of just saying 'no,'" Republicans need to "actually come up with a solution," Gardner said in an interview on Public Broadcasting System's "Charlie Rose" program. "Just to stop this or that isn't the best foot forward."

House Republicans voted yesterday to block Obama's November action shielding as many 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation, as well as the president's 2012 action offering similar protection to so-called Dreamers, or young immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as infants or children. The measures were attached to a larger bill that would fund the Department of Homeland Security through September. The provisions face almost certain rejection by the Senate and, if not, a presidential veto. There is little support among Democrats for such actions.

Gardner, who was interviewed before the House vote, was elected to the Senate last November in Colorado, which has a significant Hispanic population; he effectively sought support from some of these voters. He had served two terms in the House of Representatives, where he was a popular conservative in Republican circles.

But, reflecting his statewide office, he cautioned Republicans to avoid sending an excessively negative message on immigration. He disagreed with Obama's executive order in November, though he supported the 2012 action on the Dreamers.  Now he believes his party should start with bills to beef up border security along with a guest-worker program, which would ultimately be followed by a move to legal status or citizenship for most of the 11 million undocumented immigrants.  

"At some point that will be one of the solutions that is reached," he said in the interview.

Gardner was sworn in as senator last week by Vice President Joe Biden, who called Gardner's 91-year-old grandmother. She told Biden she couldn't talk because she wanted to watch her grandson's swearing-in.

Since then, Gardner said, his grandmother has called him "asking me to call the vice president and apologize for hanging up on him." He hasn't called Biden, he said, but added that the vice president "loved" that moment.
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